He still did it, though. And the UK leaders are approaching the knobbishness quotient of Gough Witlam and his Merrie Men back then. It’s harder to game the constitution when you don’t know what the actual rules are.
Interesting times, what?
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Well, the Governor General is the “Queen’s Representative” in the same sense as the parliament being “hers”. She has no real say in the actions of either.
As for China, there’s no question that it still has an authoritarian government as the “social credit score” shows. It’s just that it isn’t very helpful to compare it to Mao’s rule or the cult of the little red book. The Chinese Communist Party of today is about as Communist as the British Labour Party.
You might have been joking, but it is true in Xinjiang.
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I would argue that even in the 70s the cult of personality around Mao was stronger than adherence to any kind of consistent view of communist economic theory.
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