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Sir Leonard had been talking a lot of that old-fashioned nonsense. About the will of the people being the wisest arbitrator and so on... We're always the last, Stevens. Always the last to be clinging on to outmoded systems. But sooner or later, we'll need to face up to the facts. Democracy is something for a bygone era... And yet, we still persist with the notion that this nation's deicisions be left in the hands of our good man here and to the few million others like him... Why, you may as well ask a committee of the mothers' union to organize a war campaign.

If your house is on fire, you don't call the household into the drawing room and debate the various options for escape for an hour, do you?