• force@lemmy.world
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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.

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      7 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.

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