Yes, only one leading political party, and another fairly major one, and a few other minor parties. Very petty how the American government is almost unified. lol

you are joking?

every single time the labour party comes into power for a long peroid of time in the Uk they manage to bankrupt the country..

also if it wasn't for Scotland, Labour would not get the votes needed to form a goverment. So they are not really the party of England...

*Sigh* No Steph. UNIQUE. Look up the definition of the word.

All countries have unique political problems. America's are different from the UKs. And seeing as you know diddly squat about British politics, you really aren't in a position to comment on them. Where as we know lots about your countries national politics because they have a direct effect on our own nation.

Anyway, the whole thing is just desperation from the far right. It's been proven many times over already that Obama was born in Hawaii. I cannot believe such BS would even be given oxygen.

Oh shut up I know what unique means.

I don't know much about British Politics, because it is unnecessary to know, unless a mayor thing happens.
It isn't my fault United States ha a big impact on political news. It is a huge country, of coarse your going to know whats going on. When a bombing happens here the whole world knows the same day, the UK has a bombing it takes like a week for me to know.

And just because I don't know much (Because I know some) about British Politics doesn't make me dumb. I mean its a small country (compared to US), I'm never going to live there, I can't judge it anyway because I don't live there. What I don't understand is how could people judge other places when they haven't been there. And for some reason people in here want to talk about problems in the US only, every country has its problems It gets boring after a while just talking about United State's especially when I live here and its all old news to me.

Lets talk about problems in the North Korea, UK, Colombia, Cuba ect.

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Lol, that's good and for your age keep doing that. You must have a lot of interest and thats good. Me I don't. I don;t watch CNN one because my own problems are enough for me and I get more depress hearing bad stuff. IT just me.

This is directed to fork boy:
Not everyone is interested in political news, but again that doesn't mean they aren't smart.

The reason Steph, as you said, is because the US is the only world superpower at the moment, which is why the world always pay's more interest in US news, however saying that the UK is a small nation isnt actually very true, although geographically it may be small it does have a impact on the way the world turns, especially as we kiss your ass's. The US would be but a set of small tribes if it was not for the British and other nations coming and colonising it, and we were still very powerful up until the war, where we spent all our money and you took over. However, saying that UK polotics dont matter isnt a very wise thing to say, it's very importent. I may not know a lot about French polotics, but i recodnise that it still affects the world.

Just thought I'd stand up for meh nation there ;)

Anyway, my point was that the reason everyone wants to talk about US polotics is because they basically control the UK's actions as well, and seeing as a LOT on this forum live in the UK, the US have a direct impact on all of us therefore we want to talk about it. I mean who the hell wants to talk about UK polotics, its shit, we already know their all wankers. ALSO, the reason we dont talk about problems in the UK is because there are none in here that you dont have over in the US or anywhere else in the world. Knife crime - you've got it, selfish poloticians - you've got them.

Russia aren't a superpower and China isnt a superpower yet. However Russia are still a very serious threat as they aren't big fans of the west, and China are very quickly becoming a superpower. Not yet though.

I am perfectly aware of this fact and I have not actually said that anyway.

What I said was that you were ignorant of British politics, which is perfectly. I'm not complaining that you are ignorant of it, I understand perfectly why you and other Americans are ignorant of British politics. Most British people are ignorant of British politics after all.

Ignorance is completely different to stupidity. Lets not forget that.

'Ignorant' is used too much on this forum. People use it so much that it loses all meaning.

So it's been 3 years of Obamamania in America & he's coming up for re-election in October/November (I forget when the US elections are held). So what's the assessment of his government so far?

Personally, I can't help but feel it's all been a disappointment, all the talk of "change" came to naught as he proved himself to be firmly in the grasp of business as has been the case of every American president since FDR. His health care reforms were a small victory, but badly watered down from what they should have been. Part of this is not his fault, as working against the Senate & House isn't easy. But part of it...US liberals just never seem to have the same levels of backbone as conservatives for whatever reason. And he's had to work against the worst economic recession since the 30s, but it is inescapable, inequality is rising.