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Parliament has a handy guide to the difference.

Parliament and the Government are different. They have different roles and do different things.

What is the Government?

HM Government consists of the Prime Minister, their Cabinet and junior ministers, supported by the teams of non-political civil servants that work in government departments.

Chamberlain who stalled until rearmament could take place rather than going off half-cocked?

Took a while, but the Kennedys got their revenge on Texas.

Cameron? May? Johnson? Fucking Truss?

He is disappointing on the Middle East, but it’s literally his job to get the best deal for the UK regarding US trade. If that means tickling a fragile ego, sure why not, an easy win. If it’s proper labour you want, he’d have to denounce every US president since FDR as a fascist abomination.

Starmer won’t do much if anything about it. They’ve already sent the sternly-worded email. If anything he’s relieved that there’s a distraction from one of his MPs being arrested for child rape yesterday.

Under the Westminster system, Parliament is a separate entity to the Government, even though members of the government are nearly always members of the parliament. It goes back to the English Civil War and what’s run by Kings and what’s run by the electorate.

It’s the government’s responsibility to ensure the safety of MPs, but it seems they were there on parliamentary or personal business bit government business.

It takes a slight reduction in the available food options to make a Texan think things through?

We don’t really do “RV”s. Our roads are narrower, and parking is a mess. We have caravans, towed behind cars, but again not very common.

A caravan park may accommodate RVs or whatever, but mainly they are like your trailer parks, but more for recreational than residential use. Sometimes the park will have its own restaurant / bar building for refreshments.

We have many family-friendly bars, particularly during the daytime, and at venues serving holiday resorts like this.

Thing is even if they admitted it no-one would do anything about it. Why the wasted effort?

Soccer was a widespread term for it among all classes up until the mid-late 1970s, with books, magazines, newspaper columns, and so on using the term interchangeably with football. There appears to have been a switch to actively hating on the term, and it coincides with the rise of the hooligan in the 60s and 70s, and general xenophobia as demonstrated by the rise of the far right. It is at this point that “soccer” becomes a filthy American term among a certain type of “fan”.

The US doesn’t use imperial measures. It uses US customary measures which often have the same names but are significantly different.

Jackbooted stormtrooper of a neo-fascist apartheid ethnostate, or person fed up with yanks mislabelling British politicians because they think everyone runs things like they do. Who can tell? It’s a fine line.

In the Westminster System, Parliament and Government are not the same thing.

MPs are either government officials or backbenchers. These were the latter. It was the difference between the Foreign Secretary sending a stern message and the RAF fuelling the jets.

Not sure actually. One of the MPs is on the Foreign Affairs Committee, but the other is on no committees so it would be odd. But yeah, MPs can gang together on “fact-finding trips” without it being official business.

Yeah, the US system doesn’t really have the government as Westminster does, it has appointed cabinet and agency officials instead.

If these were government ministers instead of backbenchers on a private trip it would be taken a lot further than a “please don’t” message from the foreign secretary.

It’s still a hell of a telling statement though.

Not the same thing. MPs are classed as frontbench and backbench. The Prime Minister can employ up to 140 MPs and Lords as ministers. This is the government, and forms the frontbench of the governing party. Non-government MPs of the governing party are backbenchers.

Both these MPs are backbenchers. They hold no office in the government, have little more influence on policy than any other member of the Labour Party.

There are strict separations between government and Parliament, a principle known as dual sovereignty. In some areas Parliament is sovereign, and in others (such as treaties, wars, most foreign policy) the King is sovereign, delegating his power to the Cabinet. So parliamentary powers are not government powers.

They are not government officials.

France does more trams, so they have homegrown industry to support them, standard economy of scale. The list is also comparing smaller French urban areas with very dense urban areas such as Manchester, which has higher property prices, more infrastructure to avoid or divert, and so on.