The blindness to democratic principles that is widespread in Britain has been highlighted in a Financial Times report on the City of London and the “occupy London” protesters. A Maurice Glasman told the newspaper the banks that are among the businesses that appoint voters in City of London elections are an “unaccountable elite”. But Glasman, who also goes by the name Baron Glasman , is a member of the nation’s most egregiously unaccountable elite. He sits as an unelected legislator-for-life in the House of Lords, the feudal house of Britain’s parliament. The Baron’s failure to recognise that his legitimacy as a legislator is no greater than the banks’ legitimacy as voters is typical of those who hold illegitimate power.