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On 18 Jun 2009, at 17:10, David Pashley wrote:

> You may want to look up how stable their government has been over the
> last few hundred years. Since 1794, they've had two empires, two
> kingdoms and five republics. Not entirely a great way to run a  
> country.

If you think we're changed any less, I suggest you study history*. I  
am, of course, impressed by your wikipedia skills nonetheless! You  
wield the sword of Googled facts clumsily, though. France's government  
has probably displayed the most progressive political Darwinism  
imaginable over the course of time, mostly due to its people's refusal  
to lie down and be shit all over (which, when compared to us, makes us  
look like a moronic island of political scat fetishists). It's quite  
admirable.

> You don't vote for any Prime Minister. You vote for an MP. One of  
> those
> MPs is going to be Prime Minister. If you didn't know that Gordon  
> Brown
> was the heir-apparent in 2005, you clearly weren't paying attention  
> and
> have no right to complain now.


If you don't think that the figurehead and leadership of your MPs  
political party is key and relevant to your voting then you really are  
a mug, but I may be misunderstanding what you're suggesting.

Anyway, sorry, saucer of milk, table two n' all that... but if you're  
going to try and out-smug everyone on the list in nearly every thread,  
at least get your facts right, and your opinions a bit more logically  
though through. I get really bothered by people who tell other people  
their opinions are irrelevant if they're not an expert on a subject,  
then insist that they're an expert on every single thing they can look  
up online.

C 'I've not normally got this much free time' B

*I did, before you ask, and covered at least two of the republics, one  
empire and the puppet government in some depth.
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