The Queen is head of state but really doesn't get involved. The government is elected and political parties are meant to be democratic by honouring the peoples vote

If the left had there way and the others who are against the crown the queen would be gone!
Yes, Kingdom is land ruled by a king or queen.
They just kind of keep things in check as a last resort.

So, Mikey. Is the UK a kingdom, a democracy or both or none of the above?
Is it a democratic kingdom or a kingly democracy?

Fact still remains: People voted and the results were ignored.
I don't know, maybe that's how it's supposed to work in a kingdom like England

Well, it's meant to be a democracy.
You will always get sour grapes with the losers though. that's a fact all over the world!
The result was 52% leave 48% stay out of all that voted it meant some 17.5 million people voted leave.
I dread to think what will happen if we have an election and some other crowd get in who say they'll revoke article 50 and the vote meaning we stay in
It was really simple before we voted. European union desperately needed and still does need a complete overhaul. It's becoming a kind of dictatorship. France and Germany want to make it a state with its own army and tax system.
You know as well as I do that the richer countries will be funding the less well of that have joined.

Why do I now have the picture of a cat in the rain, trapped in a mud pit desperately trying to claw its way out of a whole that's quickly filling with water?

Anyway, I'm way past my personal quota in Politics and Religion posts for today. To me it's ALL hooey anyway, especially if it comes from me or another human being. With all our science and knowledge we're not even capable of answering the most fundamental questions that human beings have been asking for thousands of years so it's not on Mingle2 that anything will get clearer or resolved.


It's funny how something can create so much negatively. It's the media mostly.
All we need for tomorrow is for us to leave the EU and for god to turn up somewhere just outside Brussels. then we can post it

Hello everybody. I voted remain because we need to be part of the EU Custom's Union for goods and tariffs.

We need the EU Single Market for customers. We need Freedom of Movement in Goods, Services, and People.

We also need the money that was our rebate care of our billions per year membership... That rebate was used for investment purposes over here.

By voting Leave, Brexiteers have given two gingers up to our European neighbours.

We have a serious problem with our voting system, it is totally undemocratic.

We only have a problem when the left don't get there way

How does it work in America?
They have the Democrats, I'm assuming that's something to do with democracy and the other crowd?

It doesn't work in America. They're at each other's throat and it can only get worse as impeachment proceedings will, again, demonstrate that President Trump is not a Russian agent and didn't obstruct justice (or whatever they call "justice" over there)
Then, sht is really going to hit the fan when Trump wins in 2020... But that's their problem, no longer mine. Glad I left that Babylon of a place when I did.

"They have the Democrats, I'm assuming that's something to do with democracy"

Thanks for the laugh!

your welcome
At least we had /or maybe still have a party called 'the raving monster looney party'
And they got votes

Talking about Ypres, I happened to be there in I think 2015 when they had a eu summit.
It was all fenced off around the cathedral, big crowds. mostly Belgium, French, Germans etc.
Merkel came out. dead silence apart from a couple of people booing
Same when the french leader came out. straight to the car.
Cameron came out and the crowd erupted! !
Cheering him. He came over to the railings and shook people's hand. I was about 10 m away.
What I'm saying is that most in Europe seemed to support what we wanted and that is to reform Europe! !
Then the rest is history as they say!

So, Mikey. Is the UK a kingdom, a democracy or both or none of the above?
Is it a democratic kingdom or a kingly democracy?

Fact still remains: People voted and the results were ignored.
I don't know, maybe that's how it's supposed to work in a kingdom like England

Well I'd say it's a democracy.
The Queen in theory can rule against something but that never happens. when there is an election the incoming leader goes to her and asks for permission to form a government. I think that's just show like much of the going on in the theatre of the house of commons.
I'm sure it was our system that's the model for democracy around the world?
Magna carta rings a bell, but so did quasimodo and look where that got him

That sounds exactly like how the kingdom of Belgium works.

"I'm sure it was our system that's the model for democracy around the world?"
I would argue, maybe in error since I'm not THAT bright, that the model for Democracy around the world was born with the Roman Republic.
It's no coincidence that the U.S and Germany and a few other countries have an Eagle for its "standard".

"Magna carta rings a bell, but so did quasimodo and look where that got him"

Quasimodo was also in love with a woman WAY OUT of his league and... look where THAT got him