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Lost_BMW said:
Hung over? Or just a bit 'thick'?
Maybe it was your comments about the Queen and her work rather than your entertainment preferences that was the subject of the post?
I said the Queen waves a bit and reads out a speech. Which is essentially what she does. What part of that do you take umbridge with?Maybe it was your comments about the Queen and her work rather than your entertainment preferences that was the subject of the post?
martin84 said:
Who wants to have a bet that the 'legacy of the Olympics' ends up much like every other place that ever held it and in five years time London is full of empty white elephants?
Actually, our Olympic park at Silverwater, Sydney is great. My family and I go there about once a month (as do thousands of others). We go to the aquatic centre (good for rainy days);
And seen loads of sporting things at the main stadium plus kids shows at the smaller venue (can't recall it's name) and the entire site is brilliant to ride a push bike around;
martin84 said:
DJRC said:
One could almost agree with that statement unfortunately, were it not for the minor fact that Downing Street has ever power to fix its f
k ups.
The genercal pinciple of the quote however stands true. I shudder with dread at the idea of an elected politician replacing the Queen. At all times, by all means possible that must never be allowed to happen.
If we had a system akin to the American system whereby the directly elected leader was the head of state, that would surely attract a different kind of person into politics? Right now the post of Prime Minister is a largely expendable one filled via an Oxbridge production line of people who can read off a card. Surely if the post carried more weight it would weed out weedy individuals?k ups.The genercal pinciple of the quote however stands true. I shudder with dread at the idea of an elected politician replacing the Queen. At all times, by all means possible that must never be allowed to happen.
Take a look at who runs for office in the 2 foremost Republics in the world...France and America.
Now correlate what you just said with the above, available real world evidence. The notion that I would have to elect a Francois Hollande, Nicholas Sarkozy, Segolene Royal, Marine le Pen, Barrack Obama, Bush, Clinton, Romney, Al Gore, John Kerry...
...the country would revolt within a generation.
Elected politicians are elected politicians the world over. The best part of 2500 years of human history experimenting with democracy has shown that with absolute, irrevocable, cast iron proof. Be it the Greeks with the Demos, Romans with the Senate or modern polics. In all that 2500 years of democratic history, which has been the most stable, successful and popular system? The British system. We've kept it going for 1200 yrs, longer than anybody else has managed any other system at any time in human history.
You can keep ideology, Ill go with history thankyou.
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