Re: Ground rules - what is Parliament for?
"It was all very "American" in terms of insults flying and pandering to lowest common denominators, especially in regard to creating and/or perpetuating "myths" popularly believed, even though outrageously wrong if not outright lies."
There you go. That's why we have a representative democracy. Imagine the utter chaos if uninformed, intellectually lazy ignorami took the decisions. Oh, wait! Forget the "imagine" part...