I don’t think you can really blame 3 conservative politicians for the home price boom in most western countries over the past 20 years! They weren’t even in power for a major part of the boom in the UK (Labour were in power from 1997-2010).
The most recent part of the increase has come from the slashing of interest rates to rock bottom following the global financial crisis and quantative easing, neither of which is the responsibility of the government.
This always seemed a bit strange. Provoke a nation into war (e.g. Britain with the opium wars, America when they wanted to annex California) and you get to keep the land you took, but if you didn't use violence to get the land you have to give it back.
It also makes you wonder on the ideal size of a country and whether separate smaller nations or at least regions would be a better structure. Although large countries are the most powerful in the world, it doesn't seem to benefit the citizens very much.
It's also interesting that the 2 countries you mention are former British colonies but in the later the colonists essentially took over the ruling of the country and became the government. Essentially they did copy what what the developed country (Britain) was doing.
Semantically no, but in reality it is. Like many parts of the US, if they hadn't been flooded with American citizens they would have eventually regained their independence.
Not that I think independence is necessarily a good thing.
Yeah. Is it correct to say that the only reason she could prove her innocence from the rape charge though is that she at that point revealed she was a women?
For the car analogy, what will happen when self-driving cars become the norm and the contained software becomes so important?
I'm going to be annoyed if my car becomes useless after 10 years because they dont have to patch it after that period. On the other hand though, can we realistically enforce lifetime guarantees? What is a car company goes out of business?
I feel the party system completely corrupts the democratic process. I'm not sure how it works in other countries but in Britain, MPs pretty much have to vote as they are told by the party (it's even called the whip!). Here the 2 main parties are so similar that you can barely tell the difference when there is a change in government.
The most recent part of the increase has come from the slashing of interest rates to rock bottom following the global financial crisis and quantative easing, neither of which is the responsibility of the government.