"It was an abuse of democracy.
That money should be spent by government on consultants to scare every taxpayer to spend £1,500, just to avoid politicians having to change their minds, must be an abuse of democracy.
The whole thing is frankly an abuse of democracy – but it allows Cleggers to lounge back on the silken cushions of his harem, and wonder whether to click his fingers at the pouting figure in the red pyjamas or the one in the blue.
Until our Blairite critics face up to the serial abuses of party democracy associated with the New Labour years, they cannot be taken seriously as reformers.
For-profit colleges represent one of the most egregious abuses of our democracy, but the corruption of the system -- when special interests combine expensive lobbying operations with heavy campaign spending -- produces bad policy outcomes in numerous other areas, from energy to health care, banking to taxation.
In a closing address, Barbara Woltmann of the CDU warned that giving special treatment to Britons would send out the wrong signal by rewarding the "abuse of direct democracy", in reference to the EU referendum.
Occupy Chicago's mission statement, is that they are "here to fight corporate abuse of American democracy in solidarity with our brothers and sisters around the world".
Lampooning corporate-speak, they have a "Mission Statement" that proclaims: "Occupy Chicago is here to fight corporate abuse of American democracy in solidarity with our brothers and sisters around the world".
But nearly five years later, with the perspective of the financial crisis, Mr. Lipton's underlying worry that certain shareholders will abuse the powers of democracy is not unfounded.
