Introduction

i thought we might have a bit of fun, fun with a capital f. Normally i rather avoid court scandal and things because, well, it's all over the place. We are going to use that to talk about how, if at all, the great british public got involved or engaged with politics. Are there any sign of such participation amongst ordinary folk earlier? Or were the goings on at westminster simply to remote from their real world,. Their own monarchical republic of the parish.