UK system is poor - but they're not ruled by bureaucrats and quangos like we are
Journalists from the major continental media flocked to Britain this week to cover the general election. They have not been impressed.
You might have supposed that they would dislike David Cameron's evident belief that more welfare cuts would settle the problems of the economy or the likelihood that a government run by Ed Miliband and Ed Balls would spend recklessly.
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