The bad Americans were already doing that. As usual, the fascists had a plan and pushed it through with remarkable acumen. The rotten boroughs were agricultural districts that had been depopulated by enclosure beginning in Shakespeare’s time. By the eighteenth century places like the+
Chiltern Hundreds had forty households sending two MPs to London. Along came a Musk-clone with a big check and a hogshead of ale, so off they went to vote for him. So when the likes of Benjamin Franklin show up, there’s already an entrenched American lobby ready to block him.
Google William Hogarth for some extra lolz.
Sorry, thought you were American 🤦🏿♀️
Nope. Londoner currently exiled to the North. :)
So I figured. Furthest north I’ve been is Sheffield. Which isn’t very North.
I’m in Manchester, which might not be that North, but is a lot further than Watford Gap. :)
Cool. Home of the Grauniad.