The Hon. John Ruddick

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So...

There's no UK election for just over three years.

Really?

Yes.

They have five-year terms.

The UK, they sort of did invent this whole concept of modern democracy, and they basically don't have a Senate.

They've got the House of Lords, which doesn't do much, and it's not elected.

So the House of Commons, yeah, and he's got a big majority there.

But yeah, they do not have an election until I think August 2029.

That feels like forever.

But Australia, the first people that drafted our constitution said that we would have four-year parliamentary terms.

But then at the last moment, it was changed to make it more democratic.

It is more democratic having shorter terms because the people are cranky.

they can throw the bums out.

But if you've got a five-year term, then they... Look at Starmer.

That poll I just mentioned about Rupert Lowe.

Starmer's Labor Party, the incumbent government of Great Britain with a massive majority of the House of Representatives, that had about 14% support.

Yeah.

And we can't do a thing about it because there's no election for threes.

One thing, Stan, that libertarians believe in is recall elections, which they have in some of the United States, which is if you get...

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