Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but where there are millions, that is where serious politics begin.
Companies used to be able to function with autocratic bosses. We don't live in that world anymore.
I was born in a small suburb of Ilford in a rather nasty housing estate that my mother despised. She had grown up in the country, so when the war came and I was evacuated to Wales she thought I was much better off there.