OK, I know I said I was going to stop writing about politics, but what better way to start a blog post on politics than by breaking a promise? I was also going to blog every day and I have messed that up too.

Today I will talk about democracy. It is, as we have been told many times, the worst system of government available to us, apart from all the other models we have tried.

I won’t take much of your time as I am aware it’s a limited resource and I can’t hang about chatting if I’m going to solve the problems of the world and get some poetry written.

Democracy, to me, means that everybody has a vote and the people with the most votes get to make the decisions, though they do have to make sure that the minorities are treated fairly.

That’ the tricky thing to get right – the old two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch dilemma.

That’s why I get annoyed when I see politicians declaring that they won’t work with Reform. There are a number of things that I don’t like about Reform, I admit. But it’s undeniable that they did get a lot of votes – being  the equal second largest party in Scotland (alongside Labour) and the second largest party in Wales by a considerable margin.

Is it right that to just disregard that amount of voters because they are in a party you disagree with? Or is that the way to cause more bitterness and division in an increasingly fractured world?

Having said that, what do voters think of coalitions, I sometimes wonder. When the Tories were burning through Prime Ministers in their final years we had a lot of people saying they hadn’t voted for the new PM and should have a general election. That, unfortunately, betrays a general ignorance of the way our government works, and the creeping Americanisation of the UK, when people think they vote for a PM rather than a party.

And that is definitely all I have to say on politics.