75% opposition to this and who bets it will be passed through Govt. and become yet another people taxation? I personally don't drive on roads but the point being made is that 75% is three quarters of the vote ! Yet here in dictator britain that will not mean a thing will it ? So how ON EARTH can anyone say that UK is a democracy?. Just wait and see the results of this issue?. No different to the opposition to the Iraq war?. Really do you the people have ANY SAY in anything at all ?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6378571.stm
2007-02-20 04:29:57 · 9 answers · asked by Thom Jo D 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
People are against it but they don't feel that strongly about it.
It's not going to determine who forms the next government, and the politicians know that. There only worried about opposition to things that starts riots or puts people on the streets.
2007-02-20 04:37:25 · answer #1 · answered by Barbara Doll to you 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is obvious from outside the UK that the UK has not been a democracy for some time now. The basic rights found in a democracy; freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, freedom to defend oneself or ones family, freedom of economic pursuits, freedom of religion (ALL religions, including Christianity) have been gone from the scene there for years.
It is sad that the nation in which the first glimmerings of democratic government appeared hundreds of years ago, has degenerated into a softly totalitarian nanny-state.
I believe it was Ben Franklin, or somebody of that type who said "the people who would give up freedom for security deserve neither". I fear that we are on the same path in my country, however.
2007-02-20 04:39:53 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I you don't like it, vote Tory.
To the person above, how can you say you have a democracy in the US if your president won the 2000 & 2004 elections with less votes than his rivals and its been proven that results in some states were rigged.
Dr Schmoo: Having the freedom to polute the environment, carry guns and express extreme religious views is not a good thing.
2007-02-20 04:34:45 · answer #3 · answered by epbr123 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
there is no democracy anywhere Im in Canada where were supposed to have a model democracy well in my opinion we have and you have an elected dictator. There is no democracy... no freedom of speech ... and the government just does what they feel like in general I find. It sucks cause most wars are not wars the people want they are wars the government wants.
2007-02-20 04:39:53 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
The Democracy we have is a fudge of systems that mimic the ideal. So in other words no, we dont have a democracy.
2007-02-20 07:47:14 · answer #5 · answered by K. Marx iii 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There hasn't been a Democracy in Britain for 10years .
What notice will this Government take on the petition on road charging .
ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.
2007-02-20 04:50:09 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
We don't live in a real Democracy and I have never kidded myself that we did. We live in the Peoples Democratic Republic of Britain, and what a thoroughly unpleasant place it is.
2007-02-20 04:42:30 · answer #7 · answered by A True Gentleman 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Both the UK and USA are republics, not democracys. And that is almost a good thing.
2007-02-20 04:35:43 · answer #8 · answered by k_e_p_l_e_r 3 · 0⤊ 3⤋
I live in the USA so I do know what democracy is, and here we know that you guys don't heve democracy and we feel bad about it.
2007-02-20 04:34:24 · answer #9 · answered by Sorry I jus got back from church 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋