(July 22, 2013 at 2:51 pm)Fidel_Castronaut Wrote: I think a lot of people stopped listening to UK politicians a long time ago. Gone is the age when our politicians actually stood for something and came from a background that gave them an underpinning on the reality of what the average person actually lives in.
Now it's people graduating from elite colleges, becoming a special advisor for a parliamentarian or a local councillor and just climbing the greasy ladder.
Very few of them are connected to reality.
Your country is technicaly speaking still a theocracy with a monarch "appointed by god"
.So technicaly speaking it wouldn`t even have the right to be a EU member.
British democracy didn`t come to exist through a revolution or a brutal change in society through war, as it did in almoust every other European country. Instead, english democracy evolved out of a class of nobles and rich people gradualy giving more and more rights to the lower classes of society to ensure that they do not revolt, like in the rest of Europe. I am certain that this has a major impact on how democracy in the UK works today. Just how in France the impact of the former monarchy and it`s nobility on France`s todays republic is that it has a powerfull and extremly big central goverment, or how in Germany the history of the small states shows it`s impact in todays democracy through the individual states having more political powers of selfdetermination to act more independently from the central federal goverment.
Alot of things look weird there from my perspective, for example the lack of a constitution. And some things just look outright undemocratic and horrible, like the extrem political power of the tabloid media and the fact that having a private dinner with the prime minister can get you a decision made by the goverment which will stand in your favor.
