Most of us, young and arrogant, could not be bothered to vote and were raucously scornful of the whole political process.

One reaction from a completely insignificant voice in the political process.

The complaints about her leadership have grown louder and more public, the disillusion with politics and the political process ever greater.

For the stakes are even higher than loss of public office and the credibility of the political process.

We also probably overestimated the ability of the political process to deal with the realities of what could happen if real trouble developed.