How To Be A Liberal: The Story of Freedom and the Fight for its Survival

by Ian Dunt

It followed that the whole idea of ‘the people’ was suspect. There was no will of the people. There never had been. There was only the varied will of individuals, which even they themselves would struggle to articulate in a consistent way. Any political movement that proclaimed the will of the people would eventually be taken up and misused by one leader – whether it was Cromwell or Robespierre or whoever came next. They’d claim to represent this mythical entity, summon up tremendous power, and use it in their own interests.