What are the features of democracy in the United Kingdom ?
That makes us feel proud; "as if wer'e the best and to be followed" ?
2006-10-10 22:04:23 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
The way we went into a war in Iraq only because of the great public desire for it
2006-10-10 22:06:09 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
UK democracy is based upon the parliamentary system of government. What this means is that at an election, the party which gains the most seats and not necessarily the most votes, gets to form the government. Following an election we all go back to our stamp collections until next time. So it seems anyway.
2006-10-15 03:49:59 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes we have the oldest Parliamentary Government but I think that the term democracy itself is an ambiguous term, and ultimately it means tyranny of the majority. The electoral system polarises the vote which means that some peoples votes are more valuable than others i.e. constituencies that have a low swing percentage. I don't think this is Democratic and the political parties that are supposed to represent us don't. Until proportional representation is used in general elections we cannot truly claim to be a democratic state.
2006-10-11 05:53:22 · answer #3 · answered by grandma punk 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is no such thing as democracy in the UK.
Once every four or five years we get one vote to elect one MP. The party he (the masculine shall imply the feminine for the purposes of this rant blahblahblah) represents will have a manifesto designed to acheive one thing and one thing only - sucker as many of us as possible to vote for him.
Once he's in, his loyalty is to his party, not the constituency he represents. As long as we have a whipping system in Parliament, good old Joe Public is completely unrepresented.
Further, unforseen events like the invasion of Iraq, are decided by a small handful of people who think they're very clever - without any reference to the voters.
Our current excuse for a government was elected by about 21% or so of the eligible electorate (shoot me down in flames if you have more accurate numbers, but I'm not out by more than one or two percentage points).
one fifth of the poulation gave Tony and his band of merry men a mandate to run the country. That's democracy? No, it's spin.
2006-10-11 05:34:31 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The fact we have the World's oldest continual Parliamentary Government? The fact that we have never fallen to a Dictatorial Government after the overthrow of Cromwell?
Im proud of our Democracy, and peopel who whine about the Iraq War have only themselves to blame. If you don't liek him, don;t vote for him ,vote for another party. Apathy and Whinging will do nothing to help the Iraqi Citizens
2006-10-11 05:08:35 · answer #5 · answered by thomas p 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ask the question in the future, when there is some democracy in the UK.
2006-10-11 05:21:45 · answer #6 · answered by karlrogers2001 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
In the UK, we have the freedom to eat fish n chips and the freedom to.... well, that's about it really!
2006-10-11 06:10:33 · answer #7 · answered by moonbeam 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Every now and then Blair refers to the 'Constitution' but no-one seems to know what's in it and where to find it! Odd that......
2006-10-11 05:08:56 · answer #8 · answered by Bart S 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋