[rajandkwameali]

Hate is a strong word, but nonetheless do you dislike any country for its poltical system?

I like China a lot as a culture. But I dislike a lot its government. i hear Chinese foreign workers share bunks of 4 in a 15 x 10 foot room, wash themselves with taps, and have concrete latrines as toilets. Makes me sick how they treating their own people like animals.

[TheNack]

North Korea? Also Zimbabwe, thanks to Mugabe.

[Nathan-Jones]

Literally the whole of sub-Saharan Africa.

[Addzter]

North Korea, China, Democratic Republic of Congo, Cuba. Communism and facism don't work and they're plain wrong.

[Student2806]

Iran and North Korea immediately spring to mind.

[bret]

The United States of America. And, of course, Israel, the little fascist state on the Med.

[Ayla Phoenix]

Not to sound ignorant by touting a fashionable country to diss (at least, in America), but the latest Afghani elections were downright scandalous.

[aviboy]

Zimbabwe - My aunt, a missionary in Africa, says that a lot of the contention between political parties is due to tribal wars. I can't vouch for the rest of Africa though. And then there's the racial situation.

[wilko1991]

USA - have to have loads of funding to have any chance of getting into Government which is a joke. Instead of the best candidate its the one with the most funding so they can spout their propaganda on tv.

[atilla]

Originally Posted by bret

The United States of America. And, of course, Israel, the little fascist state on the Med.

where are you from ?? ) or what is your nationality??

[bret]

Originally Posted by atilla

where are you from ?? ) or what is your nationality??

British. Live in California. I love the American people, though the culture is rootless superficial. Its brand of capitalism is indefensible.

The Zionists have led the US into the most immoral and disasterous war in its history (aside, perhaps, from Vietnam) and are by far the biggest threat to world peace.

America is redeemable. Israel, not so. How can you redeem an imprint of imperialism on someone else's land?

[simonwales]

jamaica

[Democracy]

I love Iran and the Iranian people.

I hate the Islamic Republic of Iran because it is undemocratic, fascist and illiberal

[atilla]

Originally Posted by simonwales

jamaica

ı don't know which country's political system ı dislike. But ı like Turkey's political system. Democracy and islam is together in Turkey. I love you Turkey

[FourZeroTwo]

Cuba.

Communists!

[Baltimoron]

As much as you all may hate this I have to say England.

Now, please bear in mind that I have a very limited and superficial knowledge of how the English government works. With that being said, hear me out. I hate how large a role political parties play in the election process and the actual running of the government. It seems like so-called "Independents" would never be able to get seat in Parliament(or however the hell it works). This seems like it causes a lot of unnecessary partisan politics. And, yes, I know, the US system is all about partisan politics.

Also, doesn't the majority party in Parliament get to pick the Prime Minister? Please forgive me if I'm wrong but that's how I thought it worked. It seems to me that the people should be able to pick their Prime Minister.

Once again, I have virtually no knowledge of how the English government works. I might have gotten everything wrong in this post for all I know. Please don't flame me if everything I said was wrong.

[kelpic]

China, Bhutan, Vietnam, Laos, Cuba, Egypt, Maldives and Indonesia. Great cultures and the government ***** on them.

[cactussed]

Originally Posted by Baltimoron

As much as you all may hate this I have to say England.

Now, please bear in mind that I have a very limited and superficial knowledge of how the English government works. With that being said, hear me out. I hate how large a role political parties play in the election process and the actual running of the government. It seems like so-called "Independents" would never be able to get seat in Parliament(or however the hell it works). This seems like it causes a lot of unnecessary partisan politics. And, yes, I know, the US system is all about partisan politics.

Also, doesn't the majority party in Parliament get to pick the Prime Minister? Please forgive me if I'm wrong but that's how I thought it worked. It seems to me that the people should be able to pick their Prime Minister.

Once again, I have virtually no knowledge of how the English government works. I might have gotten everything wrong in this post for all I know. Please don't flame me if everything I said was wrong.

I'm not stalking you, honest. But just to say, that it's the British government, not the English one. England doesn't have it's own parliament unlike Scotland or Wales.

Also, yes, the winning party does get to pick the Prime Minister. But that's the whole point of our political system; technically we don't vote for what the Prime Minister says, we vote based on what a political party proposes to do during its tenure. The PM is simply, like its name implies, the main Minister of the Cabinet who reports back to the Queen on how her government is getting on. It's all based on a very archaic system from back when the monarch had more power and so the PM was quite insignificant. We don't have a Presidential system like France where people vote for that one person.

And independents in any country would have a hard time getting elected I'd imagine; when you compare their budgets and organisation to those of big political parties, it just cannot compare so they have less publicity and thus less chance of earning votes.

[Bagration]

As far as independents go in British politics, they do very well in council elections where people want someone close to them but don't do so well in constituency elections where people want someone to represent their political views in Parliament, although Independents are not to be ignored. They contest some constituencies.

At any rate, I have to say "the normal." PRC, North Korea, Iran, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Saudi Arabia, and **** it, let's throw in the European Union into that mix too.

[Craig_D]

Originally Posted by Baltimoron

As much as you all may hate this I have to say England.

Now, please bear in mind that I have a very limited and superficial knowledge of how the English government works. With that being said, hear me out. I hate how large a role political parties play in the election process and the actual running of the government. It seems like so-called "Independents" would never be able to get seat in Parliament(or however the hell it works). This seems like it causes a lot of unnecessary partisan politics. And, yes, I know, the US system is all about partisan politics.

Also, doesn't the majority party in Parliament get to pick the Prime Minister? Please forgive me if I'm wrong but that's how I thought it worked. It seems to me that the people should be able to pick their Prime Minister.

Once again, I have virtually no knowledge of how the English government works. I might have gotten everything wrong in this post for all I know. Please don't flame me if everything I said was wrong.

I don't see how you can dislike something you claim to not understand though?

Whilst we elect the local candidate of choosing - whose leader will run the country if they get the majority of localities - it is actually more about the leader than you local candidate, nobody really cares about their local MP. Like the US system, people here just really vote for the leader that they want (eg, Brown or Cameron).

It's true to say that an independent will never be Prime Minister, but I don't think there's anything wrong with that, a person without a party couldn't handle it anyway. We aren't so different there, the US hasn't had a properly independent President since George Washington, and nobody even close to being independent since John Tyler in 1845.