Comment by jacquesm
5 years ago
That should work for any coalition government that has to reach consensus, NL is one such and here we definitely do not say 'we'. I think it has more to do with the frequent referenda and that even if the turnout is low people are in principle allowed to vote on all these issues.
I suspect that’s more cultural than political. The UK uses coalition governments, as is typical for a parliamentary democracy, and it doesn’t seem to have the same “we have decided” spirit.
The U.K. doesn’t use coalitions. They are an anomaly in the U.K. There has only been one since WW2. U.K. is typically a de facto two party state. If anything, our recent problems are due to both parties consistently failing to supply an effective leader, which is an inherent weakness of a two party system.