What does Bob think of the British political system?

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bobevenson wrote:The British would like us to be their beast of burden, but I'm afraid it's still just a wet dream!
What are you burbling about now?
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Ginkgo wrote:
vegetariantaxidermy wrote:
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Our voting system at state and federal levels is the most accurate in the world. We continually have a 96 to 97 percent voter turnout. it is also the least corrupt system in the world. Ask me how this is achieved.
96 to 97 percent voter turnout? I find that hard to believe. And how do you know it's the 'least corrupt'?
Sorry, my mistake, I misread the table. Austria is one of the highest for electoral integrity. Australia ranks in the top thirty.
I thought you were talking about the US.
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Hobbes' Choice wrote:
vegetariantaxidermy wrote:
Ginkgo wrote:
Our voting system at state and federal levels is the most accurate in the world. We continually have a 96 to 97 percent voter turnout. it is also the least corrupt system in the world. Ask me how this is achieved.
96 to 97 percent voter turnout? I find that hard to believe. And how do you know it's the 'least corrupt'?

It's illegal to NOT VOTE in Australia.
True. I didn't know he was Australian. I thought he was talking about the US which would hardly qualify as 'least corrupt'.
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vegetariantaxidermy wrote:
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vegetariantaxidermy wrote: 96 to 97 percent voter turnout? I find that hard to believe. And how do you know it's the 'least corrupt'?

It's illegal to NOT VOTE in Australia.
True. I didn't know he was Australian. I thought he was talking about the US which would hardly qualify as 'least corrupt'.
Yes, and 'integrity' is not a word I'd use to describe Australian politics.
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Hobbes' Choice wrote:
vegetariantaxidermy wrote:
Hobbes' Choice wrote:

It's illegal to NOT VOTE in Australia.
True. I didn't know he was Australian. I thought he was talking about the US which would hardly qualify as 'least corrupt'.
Yes, and 'integrity' is not a word I'd use to describe Australian politics.
'integrity' is not a word I'd use to describe politics.
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Hobbes' Choice wrote:It's illegal to NOT VOTE in Australia.
And that's a good enough reason for Australians to take up arms and boot their tyrannical government back to England where it belongs, just like the Americans did!
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bobevenson wrote:... and boot their tyrannical government back to England where it belongs, just like the Americans did!
:lol: Albeit with French, Spanish and Dutch money, the French Navy and their Artillery and all those ex-British redcoats. Still all credit to your Minutemen as they were certainly good and threatening and bullying civilians, much like your NRA loving gun yahoos who'll be doing just the same thing if you ever get the fascist government you and they so desire.
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That coming from somebody who lives under the most tyrannical regime in the entire world, one that sends an armada to protect an island it considers to be its property a million miles away!
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bobevenson wrote:That coming from somebody who lives under the most tyrannical regime in the entire world, one that sends an armada to protect an island it considers to be its property a million miles away!
Bob's rants get more weird as time passes. what does this even mean?
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Hobbes' Choice wrote:
bobevenson wrote:That coming from somebody who lives under the most tyrannical regime in the entire world, one that sends an armada to protect an island it considers to be its property a million miles away!
Bob's rants get more weird as time passes. what does this even mean?
It means your country sucks to high heaven!
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bobevenson wrote: And that's a good enough reason for Australians to take up arms and boot their tyrannical government back to England where it belongs, just like the Americans did!
I notice you hung on to our language though. Well, more or less, anyway.
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Harbal wrote:
bobevenson wrote: And that's a good enough reason for Australians to take up arms and boot their tyrannical government back to England where it belongs, just like the Americans did!
I notice you hung on to our language though. Well, more or less, anyway.
We improved it immeasurably.
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bobevenson wrote: We improved it immeasurably.
It wasn't yours to improve or otherwise. If you lent your neighbour something and they returned it broken, how would you feel?
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Harbal wrote:
bobevenson wrote: We improved it immeasurably.
It wasn't yours to improve or otherwise. If you lent your neighbour something and they returned it broken, how would you feel?
American English changes with the times while British English stagnates (no offense, of course, to the KJV book of Revelation).
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bobevenson wrote: no offense, of course,
Non taken, you'll be sorry to hear.
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