Britain is built on forgetting our history.

This ‘forgetting’ is crucial to both the maintenance of the British state as is – the monarchy, the Union, an unwritten constitution, and even our voting system.

It covers up the origins for the gross wealth inequality within our country. Why the city of London, the banks, the financial institutions wield such wealth and power over us.

Everything begins to make sense when we tell ourselves the truth of how we got here. By doing that, we can better work out what it is we need to do to tackle the crisis of our democracy.

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