There's a deeper point here for the Anglo Diseased UK and that is that the 90% of people who are now indebted to the 10% who also own most of the country actually DO have votes.

And as they say, you can't fool all of the people all of the time.

That's why an 'austerity' platform doesn't play too well here when things self evidently aren't austere for the minority.....

"The future is already here -- it's just not very evenly distributed" William Gibson