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by matthewheath 1971 days ago
> no constitution

We don't have a codified constitution, but we still have one; it's just made up of various written laws and unwritten things like conventions.

I agree that the system isn't particularly democratic though: the executive (Government) can pretty much do what it wants when it has a majority in the Commons and the relevant promises in its manifesto (to bypass the Salisbury Convention in the Lords).