@Remittancegirl @jonesmurphy I'm not convinced we need better voters. I think we need better media, I think we need to get money out of politics -- we pretend British public life is not #corrupt, but in fact massive corruption is everywhere -- and we need to greatly reduce the power of party machines, especially the whips.

In our 'traditional' party machines, good politicians are prevented from rising to the top, as we've just seen with Andy Burnham (who I don't support, but is a bit better).