7 Dec
2019
7 Dec
'19
12:39 a.m.
On 6/12/19 3:43 pm, Trent W. Buck wrote:
Paul Dwerryhouse via luv-talk wrote:
Combine this with a far stricter party discipline system than either the UK or the US have, and we get a democracy that really isn't serving its people well at all.
Can you expand on this?
US and UK politicians cross the floor to vote against their party's wishes regularly. In Australia, the ALP will kick members out of the party if they cross the floor (excluding "conscience votes"). The Liberals claim to allow their MPs to vote freely, but over the last decade, members who have threatened to do so have been harassed. Either way, it's incredibly rare for it to happen here. Cheers, Paul