Our political system may have been the first modern parliamentary democracy, but you wouldn’t want to drive to work in a Model T on a daily basis.
In reality though by the time we started using First Past The Post in 1950 there were a number of cars people might like to try driving, although commuting in a 1950 Aston Martin DB2 is beyond the means of all but a few.
If we had failed to update any other parts of our infrastructure or technology since 1948 we could choose to commute in a steam train rather than a brand new Morris Minor.
Romantic as both forms of transport seem they would be entirely out of place in the 21st Century. In the youthful dreams of my cohorts we should all have been flying around in personal hover cars by now. Instead we’re