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>Sorry C, you conquered the world, maybe you don’t get to have nice things anymore. >You don’t see England trying to improve itself, do you? This felt unneces
by NeoTar 2y ago
>Sorry C, you conquered the world, maybe you don’t get to have nice things anymore.
>You don’t see England trying to improve itself, do you?
This felt unnecessary.
- card_zero 2y agoWhat does it even mean?
- incognito124 2y agoEngland conqured the world
- dijit 2y agoIt's a slight dig at England because English (UK) politics is designed for stability. Instead of doing new and innovative things the politics and ceremony are rooted firmly in Empire. -- one could make the argument that UK Politics is also lowest common denominator. Regardless, the same is true of C, it can't change meaningfully because half the universe would break, so it's stuck with stability - stuck in time, warts and all.
- pas 2y agoDesigned and stability are probably too strong words to use for a system that gave its people Boris Johnson and a cabbage. But yes, only one round of "first past the post" is very simple, hard to go lower or commoner than that. :) And it has a lot of added efficiency because there's no need to separately pick a figurehead - there's always one helpfully marked with a crown. (Of course the fact that changing the PM and the full cabinet can be done at any time without involving the electorate can help stability. But of course it also keeps inefficient coalitions going far too long, meaning eventually there will be a bigger correction event, which is bad for long-term stability.)
- dijit 2y agoIronically that whole situation was internal to the party itself- “stable” was the fact that despite serious turbulence the party held power.
- pas 2y agoYes, exactly. But "somehow" increasingly crazier groups got into power within the party (hence Brexit) and now it the consequences finally (?) catching up (hence the flip to Labour).