The discussion challenges the claim that voters alone are responsible for failures in defence administration. Its reasoning is that people elect representatives to make government their full-time work. Voters cannot be assumed to have chosen, or anticipated, every failure in a party's management of defence. Representative democracy therefore places a responsibility on officeholders to understand and run the systems entrusted to them. The point concerns accountability within the British parliamentary system.
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Why representative government carries responsibility for defence
The defence discussion explains why electing representatives does not make voters responsible for every subsequent administrative failure.