It is familiar sight to see: a Prime Minister, cut adrift and alone, abandoned by their own bedfellows, and standing on the Downing Street steps.

Talk of unity and harmony has given way to eliminating a foe.

These results have exposed Macron’s presidential legitimacy (or lack thereof) as little more than an empty vote against the ‘far-right’.

What are the right-wing cases against representative democracy, as it is now?

By refusing to vote, you refuse to endorse a system which allows no meaningful choice.

The failure of the right regarding tyranny of the bio-security state during the COVID outbreak has been notable.

But, more profoundly, compromises (in politics and elsewhere) are never made for the benefit of third parties, but for those making the compromise.

Modern democracy has many problems; not least because of the tyranny of the majority. To think of practical reform however, we must go back to its origins.