In the meantime, some FACTS and QUESTIONS:

In the recent General Election, turnout was just 52% of eligible adults, the lowest since

Universal suffrage was introduced in 1928.

Labour received 9,712,011 votes and won 421 seats

Conservatives received 6,814,469 votes and won 122 seats

Reform received 4,091,549 votes and won 5 seats

Lib Dems received 3,499,933 votes and won 72 seats

Greens received 1,939,502 votes and won 4 seats

Did any of these votes belong to you? Did you wish they belonged to you?

1) What makes you feel a sense of belonging and investment in your locality?

2) What drives you to participate in, or to withdraw from, the democratic process?

3) Do you vote? If so why? If not, why not?

4) What ways do you participate in this democracy? (Eg. Neighbourhood group, Citizens’ Assemblies, trade union, protest movement, community work)

5) Where do you see faultlines in our democracy?

6) How does the growth of Cambridge affect you?

7) What would you prefer to democracy?

8) The ghost of John Pink is said to haunt the Guildhall in Cambridge – why would he want to do that?

9) There was a man called Benjamin, who owned the land on which the Guildhall was

ultimately built, before he was turfed off that spot in 1224. What happened there?

10) Where did it all begin? (Don’t say Athens).

11)Where will it all end? (Don’t say with Donald Trump).