I'm not sure that would make any meaningful steps to address the issue.Wigster600 said:Maybe the best thing would be to redraw constituency borders according to population?
I'm not sure that would make any meaningful steps to address the issue.Wigster600 said:Maybe the best thing would be to redraw constituency borders according to population?
SERVICE GUARANTEES CITIZENSHIPmdk31 said:Like a martial republic? Wherein service guarantees citizenship?
Hey, I never said I support it. I think conscription is counterproductive in a modern military in most cases anyway. Professional soldiers are more effective.Feragorn said:Have fun being sucked right out of highschool into the meat grinder of the bug wars.
Y'all do know that the movie basically satirizes all the fashy bits of the book, right?
Almalexia said:Satire is a dead art. Continued use is only inadvertently supporting the institutions one wishes to criticize.
It didn't really seem that way, they showed examples of wealthy, happy, normal people who had never served and balked at the idea of doing so.mdk31 said:I mean, compulsory service in order to be allowed to vote is pretty conscription-y.
Almalexia said:So as I understand it, Theresa May called this election on her own, this wasn't the regularly scheduled time for election, so she could improve her (and her party's, I guess) standing in Parliament? Isn't that basically what happened with why the Referendum on Brexit was called?
Majority of British politicians tend to come straight from university into politics. This is rather heavily the case for modern Tories and New Labour, both of which are currently existing as political entities for the sole purpose of being in the buisness of politics (though Corbyn might change that for Labour, it was certainly the case with the Blairite wave). It's not uncommon for such people to become detatched.Almalexia said:Not that I'm in a position to talk, but why the hell are your politicians so stupid, even for politicians?
Christ, that's a first.Jacobhinds said:Mcwiggum pretty much nailed it.