Why can't politicians own up to their mistake?. And when will Britain become a democracy?

Answer 1

I don.t know where Jacq got her definition of democracy.
Maybe from Robert Mugabe's dictionary.
Let them vote and you have a democracy? Bullsh1t. What about having a majority.
Last election Tony Blair had the votes of 22% of the population.
and nowhere near 50% of the voters. With our system even if the Tories won with a small majority Labour would still come out ahead.
The only way forward is proportional representation.
As far as freedom goes Tony Blair and especially Peter Haine
stood up in the 60's and 70's calling for boycotts of South Africa because of the 90 detention laws, they called them fascist.
Now they force these laws on us. Claire Short is right hung parliament will force a democratic government.

Answer 2

When I last looked Britain was a democracy, the definition being that the people have the freedom to vote for the political party of their choosing from a selection of parties with a variety of views.

If by mistake you are referring to Blair's decision to go to war in Iraq, it may or may not be a mistake, depending on your own viewpoint. If you are a mother of a service person killed, you may hold one opinion. If you are a relative of the people gassed to death unneccessarily by Saddam, then you will obviously hold another.

But now that it is a done deal, it's too late to renege on any decisions made. It is too far down the road for that. Apology or no apology, it won't make a blind bit of difference to what's going on there now.

Say he did admit he got it wrong, what would he do now that is any different? The troops are there, even if the decision to pull them out was made today, it's not going to happen in a hurry. The situation is too fragile at the moment for a wholesale withdrawal. Perhaps he could give an outline of when troops may be expected to leave, but that would just hand a gift to the insurgents - they will wait until that day comes and then the country will descend into civil war.

I am afraid that the troops will have to stay there now they are there at least until the Iraqi army is able to cope with the challenges that British (and other) troops are currently facing.

Answer 3

Politicians often try to hide their mistakes, because to reveal them would show their hypocrisy.

An example of this was John Major's back to basics policy, advocating family values and morals. It all came unstuck when a Tory MP was found to have had an affair and lovechild(not to mention Major's own dalliance with Edwina Curry).

As for democracy, there is no perfect system. I believe the British model is better than some, however.

Answer 4

Great Britain is a Democracy and a Monarchy and it's
been around for awhile and seems to be working pretty good and if the politicians owned up to their mistakes,
they probably would not be re-elected!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 5

Here's a question for you. Will Americans ever learn to understand the difference between English and British?

Answer 6

you will never be a democracy or own up to their mistakes because the are to busy trying to run every other country in the world. you are getting what you deserve in britain

Answer 7

Even if this bunch of New McLabour liars told the truth, nobody would believe them!
Democracy - what is that - is it what older generations died for?

Answer 8

Politicians do not own up to their mistakes because they want to be reelected, and for the second part NEVER!!

Answer 9

1) UK is a democracy.
2) It would be political suicide in the current environment.

Answer 10

Politicians never make mistakes otherwise they are not
politicians and democrats are not necessarily democratic.
The word sounds good though.