Gordo vows to help find Madeleine

[loadofkods]

Britain is not a democracy.

Quite right, the Westminster Model is also known as an Electoral Dictatorship.
Every five years the populous vote for their next dictator.

[Euro-commuter]

Fantastic, elections Soviet-style. You can either vote for the party selected candidate or... not vote. Splendid stuff!

Oh, try a better target, for goodness' sake, there are plenty. Nobody is stopping other candidates from standing, except the knowledge on their part that they wouldn't win.

[Euro-commuter]

Quite right, the Westminster Model is also known as an Electoral Dictatorship.
Every five years the populous vote for their next dictator.

populus

[Euro-commuter]

Quite right, the Westminster Model is also known as an Electoral Dictatorship.
Every five years the populous vote for their next dictator.

Wrong! He's not a dictator, he still has to get laws voted through. And it's known to Aristotle as a Polity (where elected representatives govern), as against a Democracy (where the people themselves turn up in person and govern).

[loadofkods]

Wrong! He's not a dictator, he still has to get laws voted through. And it's known to Aristotle as a Polity (where elected representatives govern), as against a Democracy (where the people themselves turn up in person and govern).

Good god man! I was being flippant...

[Lucifer Box]

True, but the Tories did the same thing with Howard.

Thing is, Michael Howard didn't become PM and as far as I know the Tory's webtulipe wasn't saying "send us £25 and get to choose the next PM".

[Lambros]

What does Drongo mean? It's an anagram of Gordon.

His complete anagram sounds like his life story: Born, do wrong.

In Australian slang, the word drongo is a synonym for a total loser or idiot.
- how absolutely appropriate!