Fergus Finlay is a former political activist and adviser to three governments, the former head of the children's charity Barnardos, a writer and a broadcaster.
Could the next few paragraphs become part of what our children are taught in years to come?
“Democracy was in the end a historical aberration. A group of alleged philosophers and thinkers, and some equally deluded politicians, persuaded the masses of people they could govern themselves. They were aided and abetted by politicians down through the ages. One of them for instance, an American President called Lincoln, talked wistfully about ‘government of the people, by the people, for the people’. He said that, of course, while his country was split down the middle by a civil war. And he paid the price of foolishness.
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