Is it time to replace our elected politicians with non-elected experts?

We have always voted representatives into public office. But perhaps that has been our problem. They were representative of us.

Who among us is an expert, fit to adjudicate on the big questions of life? These days most of us are flat out just trying to work out what to watch on Netflix.

Surely the past few years have proved that Abraham Lincoln’s “government of the people by the people for the people” should indeed perish from the earth.