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George II

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12. And the PM can call for an election at any time. If we had a parliamentary system....

Reply to IronLionZion (Reply #7)

Fri Jan 13, 2017, 11:50 AM

Jan 2017

....Nixon would never have had to resign, he would have had to call for an election and would have been soundly defeated.

Same thing for baby bush, and we'd also be seeing Trump voted out by the summer of 2017.

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