RuamRudy

Who had a referendum about what? Did you actually intend that sentence to be relevant to this thread or did you just want to post nonsequitor nonsense?

There is nothing automatic about it. There are many countries which have managed to slip the thieving, pernicious grip of the United Kingdom but still keep the royal family as their head of state.

Democracy isn't cheap but the ability to choose your head of state - and to remove him if he is unfit for the job - is priceless.

Proof, as if it was needed, that the UK has no decent future as long as the red tories and the blue tories have everything sewn up so only they and their friends can benefit.

Do you have evidence to back up that claim or is it all just wishful thinking on your part?

We are not all snivelling, boot licking sheep. Whilst still a minority, more and more brits are questioning why we have this grotesque and utterly disfunctional family as our unelected and unaccountable head of state.

Likewise, you can rely upon the docile, pliant, cap doffing, servile right to maintain the undemocratic status quo.

Of course, regardless of what he thinks, he can hardly say anything else.

My comment was aimed at the outrage that the other poster shared at the notion of Muslims voting, irrespective of their ties to the UK. He didn't mention anything about how many generations back they might be able to trace their Anglo Saxon roots. You choose to live in hong Kong, aware of the restrictions that you, as a foreign passport holder, are under. I certainly hope that the UK government doesn't look to places such as China with an eye to copying their human rights and democracy values.

I don't want to comment on JonnyF's understanding of how these youngsters are being manipulated, but there are plenty of people who are very aware of the potency of their words. The convicted fraudster and woman beater Stephen Yaxley Lennon, for example.

People exercising their democratic rights to represent or choose who represents them. Is that such a bad thing, or should it be restricted only to people of specific faiths?

On mobile the posts are at the bottom of the page below the links to other forums and threads.

The Silver Jews were such a tragically overlooked band. Anyone who writes lyrics like these is a genius in my book: "You got Tennessee tendencies, And chemical dependencies, You make the same old jokes, And malaprops on cue. "

Anyone for tennis? Boris Johnson admits he did play £160,000 tennis match with ex-Russian minister's wife

Why do the organisers of the events allow this? It's possible to both hate the actions of Hamas and support the rights of ordinary Palestinians at the same time.

He must be referring to the part in the gospel which King James expunged, where Jesus took his disciples to Vegas for a lads' weekend.

Two billionaires, surrounded by down at heel blue-collar workers from some forgotten backwater, both trying to pretend they care about them; truly a pathetic sight.

One corrupt, bumbling and incompetent ego maniac praising another? Who'd have thunk it?

Does it not also take into account hand size? He's on shaky ground on that one.

Why would you wonder that? Why is it even remotely relevant to you what other private individuals choose to legally do with their bodies?

Admittedly, the US is no better off than the UK when it comes to absolutely appalling choices for leadership, but why anyone would question Harris in particular when she is standing against a convicted fraudster, rapist, long term friend of Epstein, and utterly incompetent fool is beyond me. I guess one sees what one wants to see.

But she sees nothing worrying or incredible that trump is in the running again?

That's next on his list, once he has perfected the bendy cave submarine.

Consistency is not a word most people would associate with Johnson. Cameron clearly learnt from the time Johnson helped his friend Darius Guppy beat up a journalist who wrote something Guppy didn't like.

Yes, I am aware that the UK uses FPTP - I am merely pointing out how inherently undemocratic the UK is, and that Labour is not in power because that's what the electorate wanted. Not only the Tories push against PR - Labour also campaigned against it during the PR referendum - they also spread misinformation across the country because they, like the tories, have a vested interest in maintaining an undemocratic system that benefits them.