Dangerous language that - but I kind of see where you're going with that.
Up to about 5 or 6 years ago - there was an acceptance amongst most that democracy has enough keys and locks not to be tampered with - and over that intervening period we have seen attempt after attempt by politicians across the world to circumvent those locks either with words - or in the case of a few here and elsewhere with fists and weapons.
Or Cambridge Analytica.
If anything, the last few years have shown that democracy needs to be strengthened further - and I suspect when this current generation of politician have been removed and carted off to jail for their misdemeanours, such actions will be taken. Until then, I suspect things may get worse - whether thats the continuing gerrymandering of district lines by the GOP in certain states - or the reinstatement of FPTP in council and mayoral elections over here - and that is when we cannot allow ourselves to be wondering how the Tories have got a bigger majority or more council seats without realising that all of that is for that purpose.
I think waiting for that may be a bit too late for this generation, hence my angst. I think we still have a window of opportunity for fixing this without too much pain, with a general consensus across the population. There are still respected senior Tories who believe in responsibility. Not active, but retired and thus can be seen to be not biased.
My preference would be something like a Royal Commission, a body with the Crown's authority backing it. Headed by retired senior politicians, advised by experts in the fields being investigated. That would mean the surviving former PMs: Major (the key to all this), Blair, Brown, Cameron (yes, even he). I would add Clarke and Heseltine to that list. Heavily Tory, but the current government is Tory, so it would need to be Tory-dominated to stand a chance of surviving accusations of party politics.
It would be charged with investigating the current media-politics symbiosis, and looking at ways of holding politicians responsible for their actions, and making it possible for voters to sensibly assess their actions and holding their politicians to account. Since the body members, possibly with the exceptions of the last 3 PMs, may not be familiar with the media ecosystem nowadays, experts in the field would advise them on how it is today.
We are relatively lucky that Johnson, having been elected on nothing more than a media career, is socially liberal, and generally tends left on decisions (according to people who have personal dealings with him, as my opinion of him is the opposite). He is also egotistical enough to be given a unity argument and the promise of a positive legacy. If we wait until we have a Lawrence Fox type figure, or someone even closer to Trump, is in power, then I suspect that one or more of the senior Tories I named will already be gone, and a cross-party non-factional solution may become a dream rather than a possibility.
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