• @force
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    7 months ago

    To be fair just before the time of the opium wars they were relatively far along in their process of converting to a democracy.

    • @woelkchen
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      37 months ago

      they were relatively far along in their process of converting to a democracy.

      A country with an unelected House of Lords is still not a free democracy.

      • @[email protected]
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        97 months ago

        The wackiest thing is that it’s often the Lords who have stopped the Commons enacting some really authoritarian stuff!