Get off your high horse, Britain

Since WW2, only half our PMs started the job after winning a general election

Our current PM was chosen by 140,000 Tory Members, who had to *pay* to get a vote

The PM literally cancelled parliament when it was inconvenient to him ...
We have 792 unelected parliamentarians, and 650 elected ones

Only Iran and UK reserve automatic places for unelected religious figures in their parliaments

Our constitution is not codified, and is mostly built from precedents that can be superseded at a moment's notice...
65% of our judiciary went to the same dozen private schools

The man behind Fox News publishes over half the news read in the UK

Almost every other national newspaper is owned by a tax avoider, Russian oligarch or pornographer...
In 2021 we launch our first Fox-style news channel, where for the first time "opinion" will be the central purpose, rather than accurate news

The PM has been sacked 3x for lying

The PM has sole power to decide whether to apply Ministerial Standards ... and didn't...
The govt gives billions of unaccountable taxpayer money to companies which, at the election, will give that money back as "donations" to the Tory party, and so the wheel spins

Nobody can explain a material difference between "donations" and "corruption"...
The govt just implemented the biggest change to our country for 45 years without a mandate, cos the Brexit they delivered bore no resemblance to the one promised

A right-wing activist murdered an MP, whilst shouting "Britain first"...
Our politics is corrupted by the Murdoch, Bannon, Cambridge Analytica, Koch Brothers, Robert Mercer - same as USA.

If you think this can't happen here, you're wrong. It can. It is. We are on the same track, on the same train - simply a couple of carriages behind USA.
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