On this topic, Jonah, I remember going to a lunch in London a year or so back where the guest speaker was Norman Tebbit, a key ally of Mrs Thatcher in the 1980s. In the course of the discussion one topic that came up was the supposed apathy of the British electorate (voter turnout has fallen rapidly in recent years). In essence, Tebbit’s view was that one possible explanation was that voters had been put off showing up to the ballot box by the fact that, due to the broad consensus amongst the political class on which issues were up for debate, voters were rarely invited to decide on a number of topics that ‘really’ interested them, and thus had decided there was no point in voting. He didn’t specify the topics he was referring to, but I’d imagine they included immigration, withdrawal from the EU and the like…in short, the more ‘populist’ agenda.