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Mr Maloney,
You certainly may censure any politician on what a life's experience suggests to me is their inveterate, seemingly innate, deceitfulness. That's why the word hypocrisy springs so readily to mind. Perhaps I should have written 'duplicity' because, like so many, you seem to use the word 'democracy', as politicians do, to conflate what we have with what Athens invented, a duplicity which few politicians are willing to decry, as A Eden did in the HoC in 1928: “We have not got democratic government in this country to-day; we never had it, and I venture to suggest that we shall never have it. What we have done ... is to broaden the basis of our oligarchy.”