Godon Brown adressing Congress

[SamuelRSmith]

highwaystar101 said:

JustinUK said:

 

I personally do not blame Labour for the economic troubles. It's something that's affecting the whole world regardless of which political party is in charge. At a time like this though an election would be an easy way for the population to kick a government it wants to blame.

 

I believe that's what happened in Germany ikn the 1930's when they elected a young man named Hitler... This isn't going to end well is it?

 

Germany was a completely different kettle of fish, the economic situation was far worse, and the people were new to, and not entirely convibnced by, the premise of democracy. The UK was also in a much worse situation back then, and the extremist parties faired much better than they do now - and yet they still didn't win a single seat.

The thing that I find amazing about the UK is that it's one of the two democracies around the world that still doesn't have a codified constitution (well, technically three, but NZ has been bound by the Constitution Act of 1986 and the Bill of Rights 1990), and yet we still pride ourselves as being one of the freeest countries in the world. It's a testiment to our people that democracy has been able to develop organically over hundreds of years without there being any strict rules as what Governments can and can't do.

One of the reasons I'm proud to be British.