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struggle4progress

(118,282 posts) Sun May 26, 2019, 07:11 AM May 2019

Hey, look! The UK can boot a lousy leader on short notice! Maybe we could learn from them!

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Hey, look! The UK can boot a lousy leader on short notice! Maybe we could learn from them! (Original Post) struggle4progress May 2019 OP

Their system is so different from ours PoindexterOglethorpe May 2019 #1

This, their system has provisions for it and a much weaker head of state overall Amishman May 2019 #3

Except we can't manage to do it ... Myrddin May 2019 #2

PoindexterOglethorpe

(25,853 posts)

1. Their system is so different from ours

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Sun May 26, 2019, 08:53 AM

May 2019

that it's not an appropriate example.

Amishman

(5,557 posts)

3. This, their system has provisions for it and a much weaker head of state overall

Reply to PoindexterOglethorpe (Reply #1)

Sun May 26, 2019, 09:56 AM

May 2019

If we somehow were able to make constitutional reforms, I'd love to see the presidency reformed to be more like the UK PM.

It would take major constitutional changes though. Without that, changing the president easily is (and should be) a pipedream

Myrddin

(327 posts)

2. Except we can't manage to do it ...

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Sun May 26, 2019, 09:09 AM

May 2019

... before a grave amount of irreparable damage is done, I'm afraid!

When we got rid of Thatcher she'd already decimated our manufacturing industry.

When we got rid of Cameron, he'd already broken the country in two.

T May just went about fucking up any semblance of self-respect the country had still remaining.

Boris Johnson??: 'Jolly well hold my beer' - FFFS!

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