We need to get participatory democracy back on track

A protester lays flowers in front of a mock tombstone outside the gates of No 10 Downing Street in London. Photograph: Will Oliver/EPAGeorge Monbiot nails it (Why ‘the will of the people’ is a myth in British democracy, Journal, 24 October). The impasse of the last three years – and the Sturm und Drang that has accompanied it – is not just down to recalcitrant MPs or any one party (although some bear more responsibility than others). No, it’s the inevitable fallout