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The Fall of the House of Commons

By: Chris McLaughlin

The architectural decay of Westminster offers a convenient metaphor for Britain’s crumbling democratic systems. Under a government elected via the lowest electoral mandate in history, the outlook for reform is bleak.

(Illustration by Jay Marol)

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I saw the great walls falling apart. There was a long and stormy shouting sound — and the deep black lake closed darkly over all that remained . . . — Edgar Allan Poe Nothing more graphically symbolises the decline in Britain’s political fabric than the neo-Gothic Palace of Westminster clinging in all its dilapidated grandeur to a mudbank […]

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I saw the great walls falling apart. There was a long and stormy shouting sound — and the deep black lake closed darkly over all that remained . . . — Edgar Allan Poe Nothing more graphically symbolises the decline in Britain’s political fabric than the neo-Gothic Palace of Westminster clinging in all its dilapidated grandeur to a mudbank […]

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I saw the great walls falling apart. There was a long and stormy shouting sound — and the deep black lake closed darkly over all that remained . . . — Edgar Allan Poe Nothing more graphically symbolises the decline in Britain’s political fabric than the neo-Gothic Palace of Westminster clinging in all its dilapidated grandeur to a mudbank […]

I saw the great walls falling apart. There was a long and stormy shouting sound — and the deep black lake closed darkly over all that remained . . . — Edgar Allan Poe Nothing more graphically symbolises the decline in Britain’s political fabric than the neo-Gothic Palace of Westminster clinging in all its dilapidated grandeur to a mudbank […]

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