it is, and since most people have no idea what they are voting for anyway, the system can work quite well. Hence the distrust of referendums. A vote in multi party system is very much about whom you delegate the power to make decisions on your behalf to.
2 days ago, on the (once) respected BBC radio Today Programme, a political journalist Nick Robinson accused Germany of being non-democratic because CDU/CSU weren't going into coalition with the second largest party AfD.
I may very well speak on behalf of all Anglophile continental Europeans when I offer my condolences to the English nation for the existence of Nick Robinson.
Very interesting, thank you. My point also pertains to media and debating culture. Op-ed pieces, how debates are conducted, even the value placed on humor. Many continental Europeans still distrust charisma in politics and political debate, having brought us complete ruin in Italy and Germany.
Thank you! That's a very interesting insight.
There certainly is a culture of arguing for fun in the UK, which is replicated or even enhanced in Australia.
There was a traditional form of entertainment called "Flyting" in Germanic/Scandinavian countries that mostly died out long ago, but was imported into the English legal and political system by the Normans.
the intriguing contrast, or so it seems for me, is that continental Europeans are far less polite in daily life but much more so in politics (christian and social democrats and FDP-style liberals). With the English it is the other way around.
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2 days ago, on the (once) respected BBC radio Today Programme, a political journalist Nick Robinson accused Germany of being non-democratic because CDU/CSU weren't going into coalition with the second largest party AfD.
There certainly is a culture of arguing for fun in the UK, which is replicated or even enhanced in Australia.