France vs UK
As a Scottish friend was saying, the UK has been exposed as an organisation that, it increasingly seems, one cannot leave when one feels like it. This doesn't go down at all well with people.
There was a referendum. Scotties voted to stay, and just as well as the oil price collapsed shortly afterwards. Aberdeen is a ghost town now. Much cheaper Roger Moores though.logos wrote:As a Scottish friend was saying, the UK has been exposed as an organisation that, it increasingly seems, one cannot leave when one feels like it. This doesn't go down at all well with people.
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The French are always doing these protests. Farmers, hauliers, students, single mums etc. It’s controlled by the unions (or whatever you want to call them) and that never ends well.vladimir wrote:No offence, but at this moment, that would be bad thing?YaTingPom wrote:A second vote makes a mockery of democracy. You go down that path and we’ll end up like those bloody French.
We’ll look back in five years and wonder what all the fuss was about.
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Yet MPs can be displeased with Theresa May and call a vote of no confidence to kick her out with about twelve hours notice given?slavedog wrote:
People have a right to change their opinion, but that doesn't mean that they have a right to vote again. In life, we must live with our choices.
AKA the supremacy of parliament. She's the first minister, not a president.Miguelito wrote:Yet MPs can be displeased with Theresa May and call a vote of no confidence to kick her out with about twelve hours notice given?slavedog wrote:
People have a right to change their opinion, but that doesn't mean that they have a right to vote again. In life, we must live with our choices.
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Ohhh I get it... but as Prime Minister she can call a snap election. Or wait, she needs approval. But the monarch can appoint the Prime Minister. That's some solid "democracy" right there.Lol Nol wrote:AKA the supremacy of parliament. She's the first minister, not a president.Miguelito wrote:Yet MPs can be displeased with Theresa May and call a vote of no confidence to kick her out with about twelve hours notice given?slavedog wrote:
People have a right to change their opinion, but that doesn't mean that they have a right to vote again. In life, we must live with our choices.
Well there is that.Miguelito wrote:Ohhh I get it... but as Prime Minister she can call a snap election. Or wait, she needs approval. But the monarch can appoint the Prime Minister. That's some solid "democracy" right there.Lol Nol wrote:AKA the supremacy of parliament. She's the first minister, not a president.Miguelito wrote:Yet MPs can be displeased with Theresa May and call a vote of no confidence to kick her out with about twelve hours notice given?slavedog wrote:
People have a right to change their opinion, but that doesn't mean that they have a right to vote again. In life, we must live with our choices.
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Democracy is a failed experiment.
The sooner we go back to an absolute monarchy and the reinstatement of the Empire the better.
The sooner we go back to an absolute monarchy and the reinstatement of the Empire the better.
"We, the sons of John Company, have arrived"
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I agree, especially when you look at the reproductive rates of uneducated vs highly educated adults. Why should one illiterate redneck and be able to have five offspring whose collective votes are six times what one highly educated person that doesn’t have kids, or only has one child, is?Playboy wrote:Democracy is a failed experiment.
The sooner we go back to an absolute monarchy and the reinstatement of the Empire the better.
The British parliamentary system may not be perfect, but it's the least imperfect that anyone has come up with so far.
Yes, change at the top can often be swift. But the system ensures stability, as the senior civil servants who really run the country do not change with the government.
Contrast with the US, where once elected you are stuck with the president and his often unqualified entourage for, unless he dies, four years, no matter how useless he is (no president has yet been removed through impeachment).
Yes, change at the top can often be swift. But the system ensures stability, as the senior civil servants who really run the country do not change with the government.
Contrast with the US, where once elected you are stuck with the president and his often unqualified entourage for, unless he dies, four years, no matter how useless he is (no president has yet been removed through impeachment).
TheGrimReaper wrote: ↑Mon Sep 02, 2019 1:45 pmSlavedog, you do not belong on this forum as you talk too much sense.
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Modern democracy seems more like a sort of advanced crowd control. Still the same families running things behind the curtain, imo.
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That puts me in mind of a jolly discussion I had with a lefty feminist friend of mine back in London.Miguelito wrote:I agree, especially when you look at the reproductive rates of uneducated vs highly educated adults. Why should one illiterate redneck and be able to have five offspring whose collective votes are six times what one highly educated person that doesn’t have kids, or only has one child, is?Playboy wrote:Democracy is a failed experiment.
The sooner we go back to an absolute monarchy and the reinstatement of the Empire the better.
During the discussion she accessed me of believing women should not have the vote.
I informed her that the rot had started to set into democracy well before then, back when we extended the right to non-land owners.
Originally democracy was only for the rich, people who owned land or property.
It makes much more sense.
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I actually agree. Troubled times indeed.
I'd throw in education level as a voting criteria, so to give impoverished masses the illusion they can get some control as well, if they work hard enough.
I'd throw in education level as a voting criteria, so to give impoverished masses the illusion they can get some control as well, if they work hard enough.
I like the way you used 'redneck' for your example, rather than one of the fast-breeding subspecies that we aren't allowed to mention these days. Very PC, Migs.Miguelito wrote:I agree, especially when you look at the reproductive rates of uneducated vs highly educated adults. Why should one illiterate redneck and be able to have five offspring whose collective votes are six times what one highly educated person that doesn’t have kids, or only has one child, is?Playboy wrote:Democracy is a failed experiment.
The sooner we go back to an absolute monarchy and the reinstatement of the Empire the better.
TheGrimReaper wrote: ↑Mon Sep 02, 2019 1:45 pmSlavedog, you do not belong on this forum as you talk too much sense.
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