He's a charlatan

[Soph0571]

He is not going to behave any differently - they never do...

[alwaysinasnit]

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

[Soph0571]

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

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!

[alwaysinasnit]

3. I guess we Yanks could learn some things from our British cousins.

[Soph0571]

4. Not really, your 3 branches should be working to stop your maniac

No-one could have foreseen how he would corrupt 2 of them. Point to self - need to keep an eye on Boris doing the dame thing over here!

[alwaysinasnit]

5. We have had several decades of both Houses of Congress ceding power to the Executive branch and

thereby abdicating their responsibilities to check the other branches. Letting McConnell get away with stealing a Supreme Court seat just meant an acceleration of Republican power-grabbing since there have been no negative consequences. Now we are stuck with this mess.

[Soph0571]

6. Yeah and us Brits need to that lesson pretty bloody quickly under this new administration n/t

[alwaysinasnit]

7. I wish you good luck and maybe the lessons from the debacle of our current administration are

powerful enough to make people everywhere understand how a (relative) representative democracy slides into authoritarian rule.