Professor David Farrell:

I would not go so far as to say that. I would just make the argument that there is a big body of literature around what are better forms of democracy and it boils down to the separation I have been talking about in my remarks between the Westminster tradition and the consensus tradition. There are some differing views but for the most part the balance of arguments would favour the consensus tradition. Therefore, I would not go so far as to say what we have is a dictatorship, I would just argue that what we have is not as good a democracy as we could have.