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“The ability to change our own destiny is the essence of parliamentary democracy.”
Interpreted asmetaphor
“The ability to determine our own future is the defining feature of parliamentary democracy.”
The claim characterizes self-determination as the defining or essential feature of parliamentary democracy. This is an evaluative assessment of what constitutes the system’s core value, rather than a determinate factual, causal, or predictive assertion.
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I haven’t given up a successful career, I haven’t given up all my free time, I haven’t given up all my hobbies just because I want to be a politician. I’m in this out of conviction
The problem with that line of thinking is that, however rotten and bad we may view our political class at any given time, as long as we have a parliamentary democracy we have the power to change it, because we have the power to sack everybody and bring in new people with fresh political ideas. What you cannot do in this European system is change anything, because it’s the civil servants – the Commission – that have the power.
I often joke that we should fight for the birthright to mismanage our own country rather than be mismanaged by somebody else. Having the ability to change our own destiny is very, very important. If you think about it, it’s the essence of parliamentary democracy.
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