Well, Andy, I Guess They’ll Have To Elect A New Population, Then, Eh?

He doesn't mean 'us', of course. This is the 'Guardian' - he means you lot.

With British politics fragmenting, voters are now being wooed by five national parties – an unprecedented situation, made even more unpredictable by an electoral system designed for serious competition between just two. It would be only a slight exaggeration to say that we are all swing voters now.

The increased pace of British politics over the past decade, with extra general elections, parties frequently changing leaders and ideological directions, and sudden electoral surges and collapses, suggests that politicians have become more scared of voters – and that voters have become less deferential towards them.

I'm not sure it's possible to get less deferential to this mob, but why should we ever be deferential? 

But is this voter-dominated politics an entirely welcome development? Recent history suggests not.

Oh dear. 

One way to picture a healthier democracy is as a place where voters and politicians have frequent clashes but also a degree of mutual respect – and an awareness that they are co-creators of a political culture. It may be optimistic to expect grumpy old Britain to become such a country, not least because so much of our media has a vested interest in voters angrily believing that they are badly governed.

Yes, if not for the media, we'd all be happily thinking this was the best government ever! 

Beneath the nonstop call for political change, moreover, is often a demand that change be minimised for voters themselves. Drastically reducing immigration, dropping diversity targets and other socially conservative policies especially popular with supporters or potential supporters of Reform UK – the minority group around which our politics currently revolves – are essentially intended to slow down, halt or even reverse social trends that some Britons believe are too disruptive. Thus much of the feverish quality of British politics these days paradoxically comes from a desire for the country to stay the same.

The pace of change - especially with regards to demographics and the enforced tolerance of bizarre ideas - has been noticably too fast  for most people. 

If and when the current era of voter dominance ends, perhaps with a government that combines great confidence with a big majority, we may look back on it nostalgically. Politicians easily become too sure of themselves and too distant from reality, and punishing them for those flaws is one of the main points of democracy. But voters can develop those flaws, too. Until more of us realise that, our fickle and unhappy politics will continue.

No they can't. The voters have to deal with reality (Green voters excepted), they cannot escape the consequences of it.