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Not spiralling downwards over here... plummeting.
Hell, we didn't even get to vote for our last two leaders, both of whom did more damage individually than Thatcher.
As for the alternative when we do get a chance to vote, well they've abandoned just about every principle and policy they had now that victory is practically garaunteed, so they've effectively become diet tories.
Please explain this false statement.
Edit: I am silly and thought that statement was about Canada. I feel shame.
I think he’s correctly referring to sunak and truss. Neither were voted in by the public.
My mistake. I (for whatever reason) thought we were discussing Canada.
Did you receive an election ballot for either Sunak or Truss? 'Cause I didn't.
Apologies, I incorrectly believed we were discussing Canada for some reason.
You don’t need to apologise. The comment OP asked how Canada was doing, then the next commenter gave their opinion on the UK, not Canada.
It confused me as I read through the comment chain, as I was also expecting a comment on Canada (not UK).
It’s probably worth mentioning that the UK has a parliamentary system, not a presidential system. So the people elect a party, and the party leader then becomes prime minister (but the party can decide amongst itself who the next party leader should be, and this is usually done by a vote among party members).
Now there are legitimate criticisms of whether this is a democratic process, but the person who you replied to seemed to suggest that the recent change of prime ministers without elections was unusual and evidence of the UK “plummeting”. This user is entitled to his/her opinion, of course, but I just wanted to point out that this is actually constitutional and common practice in the UK.
Source: https://fullfact.org/news/unelected-prime-ministers-common-or-not/
The comment at the time I replied said "how are things over there", without the "in canada" bit.
I assumed that because he mentioned that he became a canadian citizen, that he was currently living in canada, and because the post is about a UK policy, that wanted to know more of what it was like in the UK currently in case he ever wanted to come back.
And while I am aware that we live in a parliamentary system, I find calling it a democracy, like most tend to do, is pretty ridiculous if we only get to participate in it for a few minutes every five years, and afterwards, whoever wins isn't held to account when they end up failing in their duty to represent the people who elect them.