An assault on democracy ?

wotsthat

mayonnaise wrote: »

You do realise it's Ambrose Evans Pritchard's statement, do you?

He didn't who made the statement and can't tell the difference between reporting and editorial.

I'm guessing Ambrose is tilting towards voting to leave.

zagubov

antrobus wrote: »

Perhaps having an elected head of state isn't necessarily such a good idea?

Do we even need a Head of State? The Swiss barely have one at all and had centuries of stability and prosperity.;)

wotsthat

Graham_Devon wrote: »

The same can happen in the UK yes. But you are relying on technicalities to ignore the real events going on here.

Doubt it would though - it's crossing a line that would be too controversial to cross. However, in the name of protecting the EU it seems it's no longer a problem.

One person's technicality is another's conspiracy theory I suppose.

Generali

zagubov wrote: »

Do we even need a Head of State? The Swiss barely have one at all and had centuries of stability and prosperity.;)

The UK has had centuries of stability and prosperity with a monarch as head of state.

zagubov

Generali wrote: »

The UK has had centuries of stability and prosperity with a monarch as head of state.

But at far greater cost, spending a lot more money on him/her than the Swiss.

CLAPTON

zagubov wrote: »

But at far greater cost, spending a lot more money on him/her than the Swiss.

try learning something about the internecine wars between the swiss cantons

although probably better to learn some scottish histroy

Generali

zagubov wrote: »

But at far greater cost, spending a lot more money on him/her than the Swiss.

Compare the revenue from the Crown Estate with the cost of the Civil List.

zagubov

Generali wrote: »

Compare the revenue from the Crown Estate with the cost of the Civil List.

Isn't the lack of money unproductively invested in aristocratic lands and estates but invested in industry what made Switzerland such a financial success story from the get-go?

CLAPTON wrote: »

try learning something about the internecine wars between the swiss cantons

although probably better to learn some scottish histroy

Do you want this to be yet another Scottish thread? You really are obsessed.

Generali

zagubov wrote: »

Isn't the lack of money unproductively invested in aristocratic lands and estates but invested in industry what made Switzerland such a financial success story from the get-go?

Is it? I always assumed it was the banking secrecy laws. My knowledge of Swiss history is within a rounding error of nil.

I do know that they didn't invent the cuckoo clock which makes Harry Lime's condemnation of them in The Third Man all the funnier.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyuJQ_UO7OE

zagubov

Generali wrote: »

Is it? I always assumed it was the banking secrecy laws. My knowledge of Swiss history is within a rounding error of nil.

I do know that they didn't invent the cuckoo clock which makes Harry Lime's condemnation of them in The Third Man all the funnier.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyuJQ_UO7OE

I'd always understood that their lack of an aristocracy to sponsor artists was the reason for their absence from Europe's artistic canon, but that this freed up money for investment in business and industry.

Don't know much about their history either, but i've heard you could study European history for years without them being mentioned once.