Speaking of Israel...

[Seamus Fermanagh]

We invented your democracy - you're welcome...

Not completely, but certainly the idea that a public forum for debate was good and that a bicameral legislature was useful for checks and balances were stolen from your "Mother of Parliaments." A lot of the rest was cribbed from Republican Rome with a dash of romanticized ancient Greece. Jemmy loved the classics.

We pretty much owe you the entirety of our system of jurisprudence though. I am happy however, that I don't have to see our Personal Injury Lawyers wearing perukes in their advertisements. Morgan & Morgan and Pendas ads are bad enough as things stand.

All-in-all, a "thanks" is appropriate.

There ARE times I wish we had imported the Questions session your Commons uses. All for holding the Executives feet to the metaphorical fire a bit. Of course, you do have those expensive but smoothly decorative royals that can handle some of the silly ceremonial duties that choke our President's schedule -- gives the PM a few hours a week where she/he can be grilled.