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Soph0571

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2. The one hope that you don't have, that we do, is that Parliament is a lot stronger than

Reply to alwaysinasnit (Reply #1)

Wed Jul 24, 2019, 04:38 PM

Jul 2019

Congress and the House of Lords is much stronger than the Senate... and there is no such thing as executive privilege. His majority is 2....so he will struggle to be as nasty as Trump as much as he might want to be.

But yeah - lots in common!

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He's a charlatan [View all] Soph0571 Jul 2019 OP

Sounds like he (Boris) and our current White House occupant have a lot in common. alwaysinasnit Jul 2019 #1

The one hope that you don't have, that we do, is that Parliament is a lot stronger than Soph0571 Jul 2019 #2

I guess we Yanks could learn some things from our British cousins. alwaysinasnit Jul 2019 #3

Not really, your 3 branches should be working to stop your maniac Soph0571 Jul 2019 #4

We have had several decades of both Houses of Congress ceding power to the Executive branch and alwaysinasnit Jul 2019 #5

Yeah and us Brits need to that lesson pretty bloody quickly under this new administration n/t Soph0571 Jul 2019 #6

I wish you good luck and maybe the lessons from the debacle of our current administration are alwaysinasnit Jul 2019 #7