>So the 'And I thought it was the UK' bit is probably making the point that
>even this first-world mother-of-democracies has a surprising amount of
>immanent tension and a lot of aggro in the streets ...
Yup, but the next line is "or just another country," right? Which would bring the UK down from the first-world mother-of-democracies to just some crappy little place.
Doug