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ArishMell · 70-79, M
@4meAndyou That is wrong if you mean the EU, as its roots lay in avoid any one European country lording it over others in future.
However, one reason we voted (very narrowly) to leave was that it has ambitions to be a federal nation with ambivalent notions of democracy - and bankrolled mainly by the UK, Germany, France and Italy.
Besides, WW2 was not against Germany, but its regime.
However, one reason we voted (very narrowly) to leave was that it has ambitions to be a federal nation with ambivalent notions of democracy - and bankrolled mainly by the UK, Germany, France and Italy.
Besides, WW2 was not against Germany, but its regime.
ArishMell · 70-79, M
@4meAndyou =With respect I don't think you understand what actually happens.
By the same token I don't understand you allegation of "globalism" - I'd never seen the word until it started popping up on SW from Americans arguing over their country's internal politics.
The Commonwealth countries ar most certainly not "Marxist". They may have policies, system and parties similar in tone to Briatin's Labour Party - and reflected in many Wesetern European countries - but we are all democracies a far cry from hard-line Marxist-Leninist regimes.
The role of the Crown is simple. The Monarch is the apolitical Head of State (ie the nation of its citizens as an entity), not Head of Government; a sort of politically-neutral Chairman perhaps. The difference is that a republic's President is the party-political Head of both State and Government.
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Thinking of your "globalism" challenge, if you mean that as the opposite of isolationist:
The British Isles are physically islands, as is, say, New Zealand, but like almost all modern nations other than a few totalitarian regimes like N. Korea, are not "islands" metaphorically.
By the same token I don't understand you allegation of "globalism" - I'd never seen the word until it started popping up on SW from Americans arguing over their country's internal politics.
The Commonwealth countries ar most certainly not "Marxist". They may have policies, system and parties similar in tone to Briatin's Labour Party - and reflected in many Wesetern European countries - but we are all democracies a far cry from hard-line Marxist-Leninist regimes.
The role of the Crown is simple. The Monarch is the apolitical Head of State (ie the nation of its citizens as an entity), not Head of Government; a sort of politically-neutral Chairman perhaps. The difference is that a republic's President is the party-political Head of both State and Government.
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Thinking of your "globalism" challenge, if you mean that as the opposite of isolationist:
The British Isles are physically islands, as is, say, New Zealand, but like almost all modern nations other than a few totalitarian regimes like N. Korea, are not "islands" metaphorically.