Remember that this list is from the PoV of the anglo world. Them classifying France, Italy, Belgium or Spain as a flawed democracy while the UK would be "full"

Remember that this list is from the PoV of the anglo world. Them classifying France, Italy, Belgium or Spain as a flawed democracy while the UK would be "full" is hilarious. Strange, they're all latin countries. The Economist has been dunking on France with absurd claims for decades, for whatever reasons that is, so I am not really surprised.