Emeritus Prof Christopher May on Nostr: You'll be unsurprised (not least as its a perception so often articulated here, on ...

You'll be unsurprised (not least as its a perception so often articulated here, on Mastodon) that trust in the UK's government has reached an all-time low (as measured by the regular British Social Attitudes survey).

Some might plausibly argue, this has been a key Tory strategy - breed mistrust as a way of justifying 'small government' & the transfer of capacity to the private sector.

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