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Re:UK Formally Abandons Europe’s Unified Patent Court by throwaway122kk on Tuesday July 21, 2020 @11:38AM (#23907678)
How does one vote for the Queen or Lords?
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Re:UK Formally Abandons Europe’s Unified Patent Court by trekrich on Tuesday July 21, 2020 @12:12PM (#23908052)
not really the same thing and you know it. They are not passing them selves off as a democracy!
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Re:UK Formally Abandons Europe’s Unified Patent Court by madaxe_again on Wednesday July 22, 2020 @03:24AM (#23914741)
Wait, the U.K. isn’t a democracy, the queen is no longer the head of state, and the House of Lords no longer has a role in legislature or government? That’s news to me.
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Re:UK Formally Abandons Europe’s Unified Patent Court by lhopki01 on Wednesday July 22, 2020 @09:00AM (#23916430)
The UK is not passing itself off as a democracy?

Also the House of Common's isn't really democratic in any meaningful sense of the word. It took 886,400 votes to get 1 Green MP but only 25,900 votes per SNP MP. Similarly 38,300 per Conservative MP to 336,000 per LibDem MP. That's an order of magnitude difference between votes to power.

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