The drivers identified here are real; economic strain, tech disruption, demographic change, extremism. But social cohesion can't be built on a foundation of institutional distrust. When nine per cent of people trust politicians, no strategy document changes that. Cohesion comes from citizens feeling they have a genuine stake in their governance. That's a structural question, not a funding question.
Proportional Representation would be a good start. You can't represent the views of 50 million + people in a two-party, first-past-the-post system without a fair chunk of the electorate feeling excluded or marginalised.
The drivers identified here are real; economic strain, tech disruption, demographic change, extremism. But social cohesion can't be built on a foundation of institutional distrust. When nine per cent of people trust politicians, no strategy document changes that. Cohesion comes from citizens feeling they have a genuine stake in their governance. That's a structural question, not a funding question.
Proportional Representation would be a good start. You can't represent the views of 50 million + people in a two-party, first-past-the-post system without a fair chunk of the electorate feeling excluded or marginalised.