NightOwl@lemmy.ca to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoWe don't all smoke weed in Germany, Scholz assures Chinese studentswww.reuters.comexternal-linkmessage-square16fedilinkarrow-up189arrow-down13
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minus-squareforce@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·edit-21 year 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-squarewoelkchen@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down2·1 year 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-squareFozzyOsbourne@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·1 year 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!