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Re:UK Prime Minister Liz Truss resigns after just 45 days in... by squidbeak on Thursday October 20, 2022 @10:48AM (#33275569)
In your reckoning, you ignore the difference in access to politicians. UK MPs have weekly 'surgeries' where any constituent discuss issues one on one. It's somewhat harder to meet a representative one on one in the States.
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Re:UK Prime Minister Liz Truss resigns after just 45 days in... by rootusrootus on Thursday October 20, 2022 @11:20AM (#33276086)
The UK gets it right. Half again as many representatives as the US, while having a fifth of the population. So each MP has about 100K citizens they represent, versus each representative in the US that has more like 750K.
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Re:UK Prime Minister Liz Truss resigns after just 45 days in... by vmilner on Thursday October 20, 2022 @12:13PM (#33276874)
Quite. Jo Cox, David Amess and Andrew Pennington (a local councillor defending MP Nigel Jones) were all murdered at surgeries. Stephen Timms also survived an attempted murder by stabbing.
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