"If enough people complain, then the powers that be must change or face a dismantling of power, either by vote or by revolution."

It will never happen.

We've all been turned into somnambulistic consumer drones who are far more interested in what we might lose were we to challenge the status quo rather than what we might gain. This is a result of our almost complete indoctrination into the capitalist system; true equality has no place in the capitalist system and this carries over from selling tat we don't need, accepting rule by an unelected elite and not questioning the motives and methods of those in authority who claim to serve us, but in reality are serving the unaccountable grandees of unregulated free market economics.

Look back at the English Civil War, look at the debates and the depth of discussion that went on between the people and their representatives. We simply do not have that depth of debate and feeling now in our cosseted and safe little worlds. The whole thing went tits up when those in power realised that they had a lot to lose and it could actually happen, the proles were getting to close and so they closed the whole thing down, firstly with the establishment of the Lord Protector then by the restoration of the monarchy.

I agree that ideally the people would rise up and take these charlatans and snake-oil salesmen and hold them to account, but I think it's too late. They don't like us demonstrating against our 'leaders' and their corruption as it is - there's no chance they would sit down and discuss this with us, we'll be facing lines of paramilitary coppers with nightsticks, CS gas whose faces will be covered, numbers will be covered and who will use whatever force they wish to subdue even peaceful protestors.

Their next target? The BBC, which is already taking a pasting for no reason than reporting what it sees. This important bastion of free speech needs defending to the last, or the next time some copper kills and innocent man we won't even know about it.