Not quite sure of your point, Dave. The fact is, our democracy works on a constituency-based first-past-the-post, no-compulsion-to-vote system; which we all accept except the Lib Dems, who have never contrived to get it democratically changed for all their efforts. On that system Mrs T was elected time & again to govern, tho she could have been removed from office [as eg Brown has just been] at any time. My point is simply that it is pretty cool to accuse of 'totalitarianism' someone who accepts office under the system as it obtains, & continues in her policies when re-elected repeatedly; duly accepting & agreeing to the contract that she will cease to do so if democratically defeated. It seems to me far more of a 'totalitarian' attitude to state or imply that something should have been done to remove her from the office to which she had been duly elected by the democratic system near-universally accepted; or to abuse her for persisting in the policies which she had made no secret of her intention to continue.

~M~