• @woelkchen@lemmy.world
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    103 months ago

    British

    Also Imperial Britain was a monarchy, not a free country. Brunacho’s comment makes zero sense.

    • @force@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      To be fair just before the time of the opium wars they were relatively far along in their process of converting to a democracy.

      • @woelkchen@lemmy.world
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        33 months ago

        they were relatively far along in their process of converting to a democracy.

        A country with an unelected House of Lords is still not a free democracy.

        • @FozzyOsbourne@lemm.ee
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          93 months ago

          The wackiest thing is that it’s often the Lords who have stopped the Commons enacting some really authoritarian stuff!