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Both soundbites tear at the fabric of civilised society, but while David Cameron was content to turn the working poor against the unemployed, Boris Johnson seems prepared to destroy democracy itself to hold on to power.
Parliament has indeed been locked in conflict for years — but against the government, not the people. As Jeremy Corbyn says: “Parliament is the people.”
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