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Old 11-04-2008, 10:09 AM   #40
Lavindathar
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Join Date: March 21, 2001
Location: Lancs, England
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Default Re: Election Question

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Originally Posted by Yorick View Post
Completely wrong Lav. The equivalent of American states in the UK are England, Scotland, Wales etc in the United Kingdom. Or even France Germany and Belgium in the E.U.
Firstly it's insulting to compare your states to our country.

So Don't.

We are countries, part of a bigger group of countries called Great Britain. We are not comparable to the State of Florida.

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Originally Posted by Yorick View Post
Really? So the Tory party and the Labour Party and the Liberal Dems don't all vote on who their leader is before they go to a public election? Wow? So how is the leader chosen? A boxing match?

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They leaders are picked internally, by the partys themselves. That was my point. I beleived the American people voted on each partys leader.

We dont, AFAIK.

But im not very knowledagble on policitcs, im a bit out of my depth.
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