(April 28, 2012 at 11:45 am)kılıç_mehmet Wrote:(April 27, 2012 at 5:51 am)soitgoes Wrote: Any of my fellow Brits out here keen to stop the unwarranted hypocrisy of our support for democracy in Lybia, Iraq, Afghan and so on, whilst our head of state is unelected, along with about of third of our parliament?
Lected by who?
You? Would it really matter if you had elected a president, instead of having a queen? The queen is of symbolic importance anyways, she doesn't even involve herself in politics, I wish she did, as a ruler who has nothing to lose(as like, an election), and doesn't serve a limited term will obviously do a better job on taking decisions, be they bad or good, but he will definately go with it without fear of what the public thinks.
Yes it would matter to me if I elected a president rather than a queen.
Accountability my friend, is what citizens need over their rulers. If a King or Queen makes, as you say they can, bad decisions consistently, what the hell could anyone do about it? Hitler and Stalin (just to name the Big Two) were not held accountable for their decisions. Didn't work out too well for the German and Russian people did it.
Elections create, at least, a deal of accountability. Preventing shit like the purges from happening.
