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The Isle of Man is a kind of Petri dish for it. No political parties, longest continuous parliament in the world, everyone local thinks it’s much worse than UK for efficiency but the Island as a whole does better economically. Long history of smuggling, wrecking, money laundering and offshore gambling (the latest) reflects pushback against long history following collapse of the old kingdom of Sodor (9-12th century CE).

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Sorry, me dim. “It”= democracy.

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