Originally posted by LikeASong:In fact, the UK system would be near to perfect if the head of state was a chosen person instead of a birth-designed one. Your electoral system is not that bad (there are even better ones, though), and your institutions work pretty good (from a foreigner's point of view of course)... But yep, I agree: nothing is perfect, although Democracy is the closest you can get to a perfect form of government.
I agree that it would be improved with an elected head of state. I disagree on the electoral system in so far as yes, it's not as bad as it could be but it should be better, but won't be because there are so many conceited little bastards in the halls of power with their fingers in so many pies (on both the left and the right) who like the system the way it is. But yeah, I think it's fair to say that democracy is as good a system as has been devised yet.