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  • shaunbhoy
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    [QUOTE=northernladyuk;2361465]
    Originally posted by Flashman View Post

    I merely point out that you are lined up with Nazis. I didn't realise it made absolutely no logical sense
    ftfy

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  • northernladyuk
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    [QUOTE=Flashman;2361013]
    Originally posted by northernladyuk View Post

    Errm an self governing parliamentary democracy is a 'path demanded by Nazis' ?

    things that you don't like aren't always "Nazi" !
    I merely point out that you are lined up with Nazis. I didn't realise it was going to offend your snowflake sensibilities so much.

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  • shaunbhoy
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    Originally posted by SueEllen View Post
    Fairer to whom?
    Fairer to the electorate of a decent sized democracy.

    What we have is far from perfect, but other than a PR system (which I would personally prefer), our system is pretty fair.

    Our problems do not lie in the system of choice that we employ, they lay in the fact that we have such a piss-poor selection of candidates to select from.

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  • SueEllen
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    Originally posted by shaunbhoy View Post
    So in essence, you cannot conceive of anything fairer? I rest my case.
    Fairer to whom?

    There is more than one type of democracy - after all the Russian Federation is a democracy.

    Also even in different UK elections different methods of declaring the winner(s) are used.

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  • shaunbhoy
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    Originally posted by SueEllen View Post
    The one that Putin in the Russian Federation and Kim Jong-un in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea both use.


    Well it's fair to both of them as they change the law and rig the vote so they both get re-elected.
    So in essence, you cannot conceive of anything fairer? I rest my case.

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  • SueEllen
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    Originally posted by shaunbhoy View Post
    So democracy is, in your mind, only a short step away from Nazism is it?

    Care to suggest any better and fairer system?
    The one that Putin in the Russian Federation and Kim Jong-un in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea both use.


    Well it's fair to both of them as they change the law and rig the vote so they both get re-elected.

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  • shaunbhoy
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    Originally posted by Paddy View Post
    German federal election, March 1933
    Hitler voted into power, respecting the democratic will of the people.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German...on,_March_1933
    So democracy is, in your mind, only a short step away from Nazism is it?

    Care to suggest any better and fairer system?

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  • vetran
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    Originally posted by Paddy View Post
    German federal election, March 1933
    Hitler voted into power, respecting the democratic will of the people.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German...on,_March_1933
    I see your election and raise you an EU election fit up
    https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...esident-wanted

    . Jean-Claude Juncker had been nominated by 26 votes to 2.
    To understand Juncker's improbable rise, it is necessary to go back to the 2009 Lisbon Treaty. The former Luxembourg prime minister landed the job by an overwhelming majority because national leaders sleepwalked into a trap laid by federalist schemers in the European parliament and could not summon the will to do anything about it, just as they appear to have overlooked reading the fine print of the legal text that governs Europe.

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  • Paddy
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    Originally posted by shaunbhoy View Post
    Respecting the democratic will of the people.........how very "Nazi" can you get?

    German federal election, March 1933
    Hitler voted into power, respecting the democratic will of the people.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German...on,_March_1933

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  • SueEllen
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    Originally posted by Flashman View Post
    But staying under the rule of a unelected foreign President isn't Nazi at all !
    No it isn't.

    The President of the Council of Europe is an administrator. An administrator can be ignored by a country's elected head of state. The reason we British don't is because we believe in democracy.

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  • Flashman
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    Originally posted by shaunbhoy View Post
    Respecting the democratic will of the people.........how very "Nazi" can you get?

    But staying under the rule of a unelected foreign President isn't Nazi at all !

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  • Flashman
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    [QUOTE=northernladyuk;2361003]
    Originally posted by Flashman View Post

    No I won''t go away. Maybe you could think about why you are following the path demanded by Nazis.
    Errm an self governing parliamentary democracy is a 'path demanded by Nazis' ?

    things that you don't like aren't always "Nazi" !

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  • vetran
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    Originally posted by northernladyuk View Post
    I would imagine the photo was in the 60s when he was heading up the National Socialist Movement.

    Clearly you do not give a tulip that the UK is following the path demanded by Nazis and other dangerous nut jobs. That is fine. Some of us do care.
    OK so a dangerous nutter then 55 years ago, More or less dangerous than those MPs, Councillors & Mayors that publicly supported Hitler in the last 10 years?

    as I said BNP=0.0% of the vote. wake me up when they are as relevant as the Lib Dems.

    We seem to be a long way behind France & Germany in voting in extreme parties.


    Stop trying to make Brexit about Racism or Facism in a desperate attempt to make the decision appear wrong. There are lots of reasons Brexit might be a bad decision but Racism is not the main cause.

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  • shaunbhoy
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    Originally posted by northernladyuk View Post

    Clearly you do not give a tulip that the UK is following the path demanded by Nazis and other dangerous nut jobs.

    Respecting the democratic will of the people.........how very "Nazi" can you get?

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  • northernladyuk
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    [QUOTE=Flashman;2360920]
    Originally posted by northernladyuk View Post
    Here are your main options.



    [/QUOTE

    Go away and have a little think about all the British soldiers who died fighting under our flag to destroy Nazi Germany,.


    thanks.
    No I won''t go away. Maybe you could think about why you are following the path demanded by Nazis.

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