On Wednesday, 17 February 2016 15:32:42 UTC, Julian Barnes wrote:
On Wed, 17 Feb 2016 15:03:47 +0000, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

There has been no true Marxist etc party that has come close to getting
any form of power in the UK. Because it wouldn't in any democracy.

Unless said "democracy" had been corrupted and undermined to facilitate
it, of course.

Nearly happened in tower hamlets, luckily someone was on the ball to catch it.