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Originally Posted by JU_88
The democratic system here in the UK is very simliar to what you have in the states, not to mention our major parties reflect each other some what.
US Republican = UK Conservatives (Center Right)
US Democrats = UK Labour (Center Left)
Then we have a third party call the Liberal Democrats, who are more or less a flip flop dead center party supposedly..... not that it matters as they never win an out right majority 
Now we have a Conservative / Lib dem coalition government with conservative primeminster.
Its pretty much a conservative govenment tbh as they got most of the seats. |
In many ways a parlimentary system seems more apt to gravitate towards Skybird's 'oligarchies and plutoracies'. Though direct elections are used to place House of Commons members, and their equivelants in other parlimentary systems, it is the members (oligarcs and plutocrats)who select the country's leadership. But I don't know that for sure, it just seems logical to me..
'oligarchies and plutoracies', are the very reason all 435 members of the US House of Representatives are up for re-election every two years.