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Forum: USA
Jul 19th 2007, 6:11 pm
Replies: 859
Views: 93,376
Posted By Tootsie Frickensprinkles

Re: Differences between UK and USA culture/living

Stealth (the hidden truth I was refering to) taxation is unnanounced raises. It includes things like the top rate tax band not moving with inflation/salaries. Another huge one, to the tune of...
Forum: USA
Jul 19th 2007, 12:29 am
Replies: 859
Views: 93,376
Posted By Tootsie Frickensprinkles

Re: Differences between UK and USA culture/living

For a start ... Pension funds, PPP and PFI ... billions and billions and billions. Stealth tax hikes are a whole issue of their own.

I do agree there has been improvements in a number of things...
Forum: USA
Jul 18th 2007, 8:32 pm
Replies: 859
Views: 93,376
Posted By Tootsie Frickensprinkles

Re: Differences between UK and USA culture/living

Gordon is too fond of telling expensive lies and hiding the truth for my liking. I don't trust him as far as I could throw him!

The rhetoric sounds refreshing, he's clearly in tune with at least...
Forum: USA
Jul 16th 2007, 8:47 pm
Replies: 859
Views: 93,376
Posted By Tootsie Frickensprinkles

Re: Differences between UK and USA culture/living

I didn't think we were arguing it was ... we we're criticising issues with the Office of the President and its election.

And in any case, representation is only one of the desired attributes of...
Forum: USA
Jul 16th 2007, 8:42 pm
Replies: 859
Views: 93,376
Posted By Tootsie Frickensprinkles

Re: Differences between UK and USA culture/living

:blink: :unsure: :confused: :eek:
Forum: USA
Jul 15th 2007, 11:37 pm
Replies: 859
Views: 93,376
Posted By Tootsie Frickensprinkles

Re: Differences between UK and USA culture/living

That's what I meant about accountability. I know about checks and balances etc etc. The President is largely inaccessible. That's wrong, in any system imo. Still, spose it was summed up in...
Forum: USA
Jul 15th 2007, 10:53 pm
Replies: 859
Views: 93,376
Posted By Tootsie Frickensprinkles

Re: Differences between UK and USA culture/living

Aye, twas your comment and Dear David that got me onto Question Time the program. Wednesday afternoons just wouldn't be the same on Capitol Hill with "real" question time.
Forum: USA
Jul 15th 2007, 10:25 pm
Replies: 859
Views: 93,376
Posted By Tootsie Frickensprinkles

Re: Differences between UK and USA culture/living

Got distracted sorry, one of those nights.

I didnt really mean one off things, or the president alone.

Question Time is a weekly evening program where a panel of politicians, high brow...
Forum: USA
Jul 15th 2007, 9:04 pm
Replies: 859
Views: 93,376
Posted By Tootsie Frickensprinkles

Re: Differences between UK and USA culture/living

Tony wasn't elected PM, we just explained that ;) .. But yes every system has its weaknesses.


Had to run off for the last of Dimbleby's series, How We Built Britain. It's been a BBC classic if...
Forum: USA
Jul 15th 2007, 7:41 pm
Replies: 859
Views: 93,376
Posted By Tootsie Frickensprinkles

Re: Differences between UK and USA culture/living

There are subtleties involved in that question that are very hard to explain to someone who doesnt know and hasnt experienced UK politics. However, primarily if the leader of the party is...
Forum: USA
Jul 15th 2007, 7:22 pm
Replies: 859
Views: 93,376
Posted By Tootsie Frickensprinkles

Re: Differences between UK and USA culture/living

This is one of the things I dont like in practice about US Politics. The President is "protected" and treated like our Queen because of the Head of State role and yet he should be as answerable as...
Forum: USA
Jul 15th 2007, 7:18 pm
Replies: 859
Views: 93,376
Posted By Tootsie Frickensprinkles

Re: Differences between UK and USA culture/living

Firstly, usually the leader of the Party is known before the election. And secondly, they would have to win the next election as PM for that party to stay in power.

So, in practice you dont get...
Forum: USA
Jul 15th 2007, 7:12 pm
Replies: 859
Views: 93,376
Posted By Tootsie Frickensprinkles

Re: Differences between UK and USA culture/living

Anybody who has been elected an MP can become PM yes, but ...

A they must be elected and

B the PM has nowhere near the Power the President does.

To compare the PM and the US President as...
Forum: USA
Jul 15th 2007, 7:08 pm
Replies: 859
Views: 93,376
Posted By Tootsie Frickensprinkles

Re: Differences between UK and USA culture/living

Ill step aside, you're far better at scripting UK politics 101 :p
Forum: USA
Jul 15th 2007, 7:04 pm
Replies: 859
Views: 93,376
Posted By Tootsie Frickensprinkles

Re: Differences between UK and USA culture/living

The point is, protocols aside, an unelected individual became President of the United States. That's just wrong, in anybodies book surely.

Hence, the electoral system is a tad borked.
Forum: USA
Jul 15th 2007, 7:02 pm
Replies: 859
Views: 93,376
Posted By Tootsie Frickensprinkles

Re: Differences between UK and USA culture/living

The Prime Minister is an MP that is chosen as the leader of the party who has a parliamentary majority or leader of the coalition.
Forum: USA
Jul 15th 2007, 7:00 pm
Replies: 859
Views: 93,376
Posted By Tootsie Frickensprinkles

Re: Differences between UK and USA culture/living

Tony Blair wasnt elected Prime Minister, he was elected a Member of Parliament.

The systems are totally different. The PM is not like the US President.
Forum: USA
Jul 15th 2007, 6:51 pm
Replies: 859
Views: 93,376
Posted By Tootsie Frickensprinkles

Re: Differences between UK and USA culture/living

No, he was none of the equivalents of impeached, or almost so. Whether he left in disgrace or not is a personal opinion. The press and public in general do not see it that way.

The next election...
Forum: USA
Jul 14th 2007, 11:28 pm
Replies: 859
Views: 93,376
Posted By Tootsie Frickensprinkles

Re: Differences between UK and USA culture/living

Like many other things at that time, although penecillin was discovered in the UK, it was developed in the US. :)

*pedant mode off*
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