Given what's happening on Super Thursday, it is worth revisiting this @CPSThinkTank report by @mattwarman, and its extraordinary @DeltapollUK polling findings (1/?) cps.org.uk/files/reports/…
The most obvious point is that no one likes or trusts government - with the disillusionment growing as you go from local to national 
But the most interesting point in light of the elections is not the distrust but the ignorance. We asked people which layers of government they thought they were subject to, then matched that against their postcodes. The proportion who answered completely correctly was... 0%
Unitary authorities, PCCs, devolved assemblies, elected mayors, parish councils - people just didn't know who was in charge. On average, people got just 4 out of 9 answers right on this chart.
As I said earlier today, the poll ratings for Street/Houchen suggest that people have noticed elected mayors (our polling is a couple of years old now). But as the report said, 'People do not feel connected to the institutions that govern them. They do not trust them...'
'...and overwhelmingly, they do not understand what they are and what they do.'
The big question is what we can do to change that...
The big question is what we can do to change that...
(And yes, there's obviously a question - as we flagged at the time - around the 'make or enforce laws' language, which people might have associated with legislation. But still a car crash in terms of democratic engagement.)
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