British Politics

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Your Thoughts & Comments on the Current British Political Structure

I am rather please with the way this new Tory/Liberal coalition. As a long standing Liberal supported I was dubious at first, to say the least but David Cameron seems like a good bloke and one who really knows his politics. There are still several things I disagree with on him, like the 1 billion Trident nuclear defense system and his extreme cuts (which are harsher than Thatcher's era). Also who did you vote for?

Based on the title of this particular thread I had assumed this would be a discussion of the British International School of Political Science which concerns itself with the major philosophical schools and traditions in political philosophy, international doctrines, the concept of nationhood, national sovereignty, national representation, the self-determination of states, economic and military concerns, trading networks and alliance systems in the form of a balance of powers of a particular zone as in the case of the Concert of Europe which was the configuration of the major and minor European powers in the post-Napoleonic world.

In such a case, the three major subdivisions in the British International School of Economics and Political Science would be:

-Hobbesian Realism [Thomas Hobbes]
-Grotian Rationalism [Hugo Grotius]
-Kantian Idealism [Immanuel Kant]

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Originally Posted by Conrad_Jalowski

Based on the title of this particular thread I had assumed this would be a discussion of the British International School of Political Science which concerns itself with the major philosophical schools in political science, international doctrines, the concepts of nationhood, national sovereignty, national representation, the self-determination of states, economic and military concerns and alliance systems in the form of a balance of powers of a particular zone as in the Concert of Europe which was the configuration of the major and minor European powers in the post-Napoleonic political order.

In such a case, the three major subdivisions in the British International School of Economics and Political Science would be:

-Hobbesian Realism [Thomas Hobbes]
-Grotian Rationalism [Hugo Grotius]
-Kantian Idealism [Immanuel Kant]

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You know what the thread is aimed at discussing, so please stay on topic.

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Originally Posted by Conrad_Jalowski

Based on the title of this particular thread I had assumed this would be a discussion of the British International School of Political Science which concerns itself with the major philosophical schools and traditions in political philosophy, international doctrines, the concept of nationhood, national sovereignty, national representation, the self-determination of states, economic and military concerns, trading networks and alliance systems in the form of a balance of powers of a particular zone as in the case of the Concert of Europe which was the configuration of the major and minor European powers in the post-Napoleonic world.

In such a case, the three major subdivisions in the British International School of Economics and Political Science would be:

-Hobbesian Realism [Thomas Hobbes]
-Grotian Rationalism [Hugo Grotius]
-Kantian Idealism [Immanuel Kant]

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Furcifer!

This is a thread about the British political structure, not this School of Science!

Think Houses of Parliament! Think Margaret Thatcher, Tony Blair and Charles Kennedy!

my political views in Britain are. they are all corrupt, so I like whatever one is less corrupt that day. <--------------is my usual veiw.


Other than the cutbacks and like you said the trident, I think britain's PM is doing good.


and sorry to say but the Labor party just has my hate always directed at them now :/

I, being 14, didn't vote.

However, my vote would've gone to Cameron.

The Liberal Conservatives (yes, that is their name...) may have introduced harsh cuts, but let's face it, if we cut now, we have more money in the long term, so all of these things that Labour (cursed be their members) want now, can be done later, when the economy is growing and things are back to normal. Then we can do the things that Labour was going to do now and still have money left to do other things!

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Originally Posted by Darrenb209

my political views in Britain are. they are all corrupt, so I like whatever one is less corrupt that day.

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Care to elaborate on that statement?

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Originally Posted by Professor X

Care to elaborate on that statement?

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I lost my belief in our Political system back during the expenses issue.


But if I did want anyone in gov it would be those in now

Hear, hear!

That was a huge blow to our system.

However, the thing that destroyed my belief in Labour, was, of course, Bigotgate.

Ah, how can we forget that classic quote from Gordon...

"Just some bigoted woman....."

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Hear, hear!

That was a huge blow to our system.

However, the thing that destroyed my belief in Labour, was, of course, Bigotgate.

Ah, how can we forget that classic quote from Gordon...

"Just some bigoted woman....."

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To be fair to him she was bigoted :rofl:.

Back on the topic of british politics...

I've been wondering also, what people think of the last 2 PM's

Gordon was not as good as Tony but I think he did a better job of the economic recovery (well he is a chancellor by profession) then Tony taking us into it. In my opinion they were both rubbish but if I had to say who was the better of 2 evils I would say Gordon. Only because he didn't take us into a war and only because he didn't take us into an economic downturn.