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World would be a ‘better place’ if US took over Greenland, says Nigel Farage
(www.theguardian.com)
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Same goes for Gary Newsom
At least he leads a state
I wasn't trying to rank them
There must be 1000s of people that lead a state that aren't there (given ~200 countries). What makes this guy's presence so special? Or, perhaps, his presence is also out of place
California is 2/3 the size of the UK.
Farage is an MP of a constituency of 75 thousand, and won the election for that position with 21225 votes. He's not a minister, he's not an appointed leader of anything, he's not even the leader (or any official part) of the official opposition in the UK parliament. Hell he's not even doing a passable job at being an MP given he's missed like, 70+% of parliamentary meetings, and hasn't held any significant surgeries in his constituency either. He's the literal definition of paid for doing nothing politician, shuffling around Fasc-a-Lago hoping to earn some favours by having his nose so far up Trump's ass he could diagnose the tangerine tyrant's appendix...
In population, that's true.
In terms of GDP, California's is a bit over $4 trillion, while the UK's is $3.6 trillion. And in land area, California is 1.6 times larger than the UK.
Yeah, my pedantic unnecessary retort was going to point out the GDP thing but then note that there's some interesting commentary around saying "size" when five Canadian provinces are larger. But mostly that was me still being annoyed at the Davos soundbites
Well, politicians are supposed to represent their electorate, which happens to be people, not land, or profits.
Though given the recent years' heavily publicised American approach to elections, I'm surprised you guys haven't made the change to "land votes" or "money votes", given the former seems to be what most of Americans believe to be true (especially when looking at election maps), plus the latter seems to be true anyway...
What's a surgery? Is that like a town hall?
Drop in session/office hours type deal for constituents. Our mps can help citizens (usually by writing strongly worded letters) with small civil matters like planning/building regulations, issues with county council (local government) and so on. It's also an opportunity for people to lobby their mp about national concerns too.
I see. Thank you!
Like a professor's office hours at a university.
Isn’t California quite large economically?
Fair. The US state with the next largest GDP is Texas and Greg Abbott is there
As a Californian, I really wanted to jump in with the "Fuck Newsom" crowd.
But California's economy rivals most countries. Last time I checked there were only five countries with larger economies.
A bit larger than the UK, yes.
people who
My grammar is admittedly pretty farm boy, so I thought I'd check. This might be saying the sentence was fine. But either way what your suggesting is nothing like how I hear people speak
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/that
I saw at least one typo there and figured I'd leave it for you
Gavin?
That's pretty funny. Both that I didn't get his name right (I'll put it down to him being irritating in a way I block things out); and that I got three comments effectively pointing out that California has a GDP higher than most countries without pointing out the name was wrong.