@NightOwl@lemmy.ca to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish • 3 months agoWe don't all smoke weed in Germany, Scholz assures Chinese studentswww.reuters.commessage-square16fedilinkarrow-up188arrow-down13
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minus-square@force@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish9•edit-23 months agoTo be fair just before the time of the opium wars they were relatively far along in their process of converting to a democracy.
minus-square@woelkchen@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish3•3 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.
minus-square@FozzyOsbourne@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglish9•3 months agoThe wackiest thing is that it’s often the Lords who have stopped the Commons enacting some really authoritarian stuff!
To be fair just before the time of the opium wars 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.
The wackiest thing is that it’s often the Lords who have stopped the Commons enacting some really authoritarian stuff!