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On England

Usually when dealing with a social system one often first determines the centre of its
political scale. You want to at least know what people refer to when they say - right and left
-, or - conservative and liberal -. Dealing with England however, this gets complicated
exactly because of a status quo that leans towards first past the post. When a Brit casts a
vote a vote is cast in a process out of which a single party will emerge with a winning
majority - in all probability. Members of this party are then their own masters in lawmaking, and if they do happen to produce laws according to a certain recipe, if part or the
whole of their guidelines amounts to an ideology, they are further prevented from trying to
figure out what the people really fancy and require as they go on with shaping the country
according to desires that are decidedly theirs.
But why, I say, I would have never expected England to be this way. One needs one thing
to deal with proportional representation - communication skills. Talk to me and I will listen
to you, and hear me out when I talk to you. And to suggest that a country like England
whose people possess a tongue of such consistency ensured by its low grammatical
complexity, a tongue yet so eclectic and multifarious, so diverse and promiscuous - exactly
because of its age and widespread use - are to find it difficult to converse and locate
common grounds is plain preposterous, out-and-out nonsensical and positively absurd.
Pure rot.
So, I say, what is behind this piece of bipartisan demeanour? What hinders synergy? It
could be tradition, right? The reverberation of a great empire, the Commonwealth, this
could be why Britain still needs to be so conservative (compared to, say, Europe). And this
infamous low-cooperation-related horses-for-courses approach could be blamed for the
inability to implement proportional representation. Piece of cake, I say, right-wing thinking
hinders synergy - now picture this as a republic (Union Jack excluded, of course).
The Brits now have to vote on whether they want to remain in the European Union.
Another twofold issue, are you in or are you out? Altruism and compromise prowess dont
matter, its a winner-takes-it-all, at least until the negotiations begin. The people of Great
Britain know this. Theyve now also gathered that they are better off in the Union - at least
as long as the current Union exists -, but since they havent manage to change it from the
inside will they show some european altruism in order to make it more likely to quickly rid
Europe of an anti-democratic organisation and vote out - ? I mean, I say - !

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