Hi Patricia,"But a democracy stripped of a core set of values, and that it is what you put forward as according to you it should be possible to put forward any question in a referendum be it inside the core values of society or not, ruled only by the rule of majority isn't a democracy one should favour! Hope Hicks self isolated on... How 74-year-old Trump's risk of hospitalization is five times greater than a someone who contracts COVID in... How many did she infect?
2. "Says who? ‘I think there should be a proper and engaged argument and I hope it’s one about symbols and one which doesn’t avoid an argument about more fundamental issues which touch on Black Lives Matter, like education, like public housing, like public health. founded the De Beers Consolidated Mining diamond firm - which mined using slave labour - in South Africa in 1888. "Britain’s system of government, much praised in the past, is based on parliamentary democracy and the institutions of pluralism that one would associate with an open society." However I find the personal attack on Mr Johnson emotional rather than considered.Mr Patten should look to the demographic of the referendum vote. The comments below have been moderated in advance. Have a confidential tip for our reporters? The Royal Navy saved Chinese people who were important in the trading relationship from dying (by the drug of their own choice) by incarcerating them 'cold turkey' until they overcame their addiction, then they were released to resume their life.I agree that it sounds high-handed from our more enlightened 21st-century, but many Chinese lives and a trading relationship were saved because the RN seized 'all the opium' and rationed it out at the lowest possible level to preserve Chinese lives.3. 'So yes, we should have that discussions and it’s welcome that so many people in that decision are themselves Rhodes scholars. Johnson is cutting short the parliamentary session at a critical time, disabling any legislative process. Even Labour Party prime ministers are chosen by "a tiny number" of their "own party insiders. I am not saying such activities were the source of all the wealth in Britain, it was a vast amount of wealth nevertheless. Part of the Daily Mail, The Mail on Sunday & Metro Media Group. And that's a necessary part of learning. Cut to your last para (I gave up reading your rant) and again I just see fantasy and lies. The point is that it is seriously deficient and poor democracy to allow such a momentous fundamental political and cultural operational change on the nation based on such a thin "majority".

There are few figures in British politics quite as divisive as Boris Johnson, who is staking a claim to succeed Theresa May as leader of the Conservatives and prime minister. As a subscriber, you will enjoy unlimited access to our On Point suite of long reads and book reviews, Say More contributor interviews, The Year Ahead magazine, the full PS archive, and much more. So your concept of democracy is one of a democracy stripped of core values as for example the human rights and that is a form of dictatorship.

In an increasingly globalized world, this brings strength to what would otherwise be a fragmented part of the world.

Full stop. Since Maastricht we have been on the wrong track. It seems to me that the EU has not, ipso facto, been a great success, and there are many reasons to project a increasingly problematic situation in the future, including a catastrophic demography in Germany and Italy (implying a broad based lack of confidence in the future, confirmed by many opinion surveys); an impending systemic banking crisis in Italy at least (of the scale of about an order of magnitude larger than that of Greece), but likely to spread given the poor capital ratios of many banks, particularly German banks; of a bureaucracy clearly not responsible to anyone except itself, where the formal leadership was put in the hands of someone clearly "in his cups" most afternoons, and needing his bodyguards to hold him vertical.

But he also called for a 'sensible discussion' over the removal of Rhodes' statue, which has become a focal point amid continuing anti-racism protests from the Black Lives Matter movement - who at the weekend toppled a statue of slave trader Edward Colston in Bristol. Why delete Tom M’s comment ? Which is a larger margin of victory than many UK General Elections. The Brits are responsible for the treaty with China over HK and its independence for 50 years, so they continue to carry responsibility for insisting that China honour that agreement. If Trump holds a national referendum on stripping African Americans the right to vote and to reinstitute the Jim Crow laws, and wins, this would be acceptable ?We have another term for this type of "democracy". Institutions once vigilantly guarded by the fourth estate, and fed by the universities, now look suddenly exposed, destabilised, and very vulnerable. In addition, I would certainly have mentioned systems of government that had ceased to do what they were intended to do, and certainly what outside well-wishers hoped and assumed they would do. Please note that we moderate comments to ensure the conversation remains topically relevant. It couldn't just run up an endless trade imbalance (ie.

The British systematically destroyed the native Indian cotton weaving and processing so as to give a monopoly to itself in the homeland. Furthermore, as Simon Wren-Lewis points out, "those who think the UK descended into political madness with Brexit are wrong: the madness started with austerity in 2010. required. LONDON – What is a failed state? Give us two good examples for comparison. Chinese labourers and farmers were dying before they could complete the contracts for goods that they had signed with British traders. I might have referred to the failure of more prosperous societies to ensure that globalization helped everyone and did not leave some communities trapped in deprivation.

Rapper, 37, 'gives birth to her first child' with husband Kenneth Petty. And the same should apply to other (county and city) elections in the UK. Therefore, I win.Have a wonderful day, Patricia! He is trying to do what Lam as proxy for Xi is doing to HK: totally subvert real democracy. He claimed it would be “very hard” for Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn to win a no-confidence vote, because Johnson was “exactly what the UK has been looking for”. Jobs, jobs, jobs.And so much more.Your assertions that GB's wealth was created by, "a vast wealth built upon slavery, narcotics trafficking and military adventures," is simply untrue. It is the same today. I too think him wholly unfit for any public office, a serial liar and blusterer. The vote is defeated.

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Britain "traded" but with the barrel of a (naval) gun, on its terms. It was not just tear gas and rubber bullets as I can recall. But calls have continued to grow for the removal of the statue from the Rhodes Must Fall campaign, which originally started in 2015 at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, where students successfully campaigned for his statue to be removed. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise.