They may then be willing to cast principled votes based on an educated understanding of the public interest in the face of polls suggesting that the public itself may have quite a different understanding of where its interest lies.
Bio: James Bramston, satirist, educated at Westminster School and Oxford, took orders and was later Vicar of Harting. His poems are The Art of Politics, in imitation of Horace, and The Man of Taste, in imitation of Alexander Pope.
