 On 21 June 2005 , Benn presented a programme on democracy as part of the Channel 5 series Big Ideas That Changed The World . He presented a left @-@ wing view of democracy as the means to pass power from the " wallet to the ballot " . He argued that traditional social democratic values were under threat in an increasingly globalised world in which powerful institutions such as the International Monetary Fund , the World Bank and the European Commission are unelected and unaccountable to those whose lives they affect daily . 
