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Selling out the voters

30 March 2019

9:00 AM

30 March 2019

9:00 AM

The famous American author Mark Twain is rumoured to have once said ‘If voting made a difference, they wouldn’t let us do it.’

The year 2016, though, was supposed to be the year where voting did make a difference. But the twin political disruptions of 2016 – Brexit in the United Kingdom and the election of Donald Trump as President in the United States – have not lived up to expectations.

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