I read this as Birds of Prey and thought, "I blame Black Canary." I'm a dork.

We're definitely in need of some Wayne Industries-level tech. Where's Lucius Fox when we need him? Or Tony Stark? Or Superman? Or the X-men? DAMN YOU, NON-EXISTENT SUPERHEROES. Heck, I'd take Street Angel with a bullhorn giving BP/Transocean/Halliburton a piece of her mind [link]

wasn't there a civil war in there, though?

And a revolution in 1688, although it was very polite, for a revolution.

I thought that Helena was the fuck-up in the team.

Whereas I blame DC Editorial.

DAMN YOU, NON-EXISTENT SUPERHEROES.

There's Angle-Grinder Man, but I'm not sure his powers will help with this.

Edit: Found a link in case anyone doesn't know about the caped and power-tooled wonder.

Whereas I blame DC Editorial.

We have a winnah!

Um, wasn't there a civil war in there, though?

I'll spare you my thoughts from that. At least, until I'll get some blessed sleep (sleep!). Well, I'll just say that Cromwell pretty much fucked that idea sideways, with a chainsaw.

But basically, my original point was

We don't really do things by major revolution. Which might make us a lot better at having coalition governments, actually. We talk things out. Incessantly, with name-calling, but we do.

THAT. They don't do things that way, just as we won't sit for peace talks with Palestinians without a year of delicate, fucked up, tiring and only understandable to the few, the very few, of peace courtship. Shh, don't scare the rare Middle-Eastern-peaceous-politicus-talkerous-homo-sapiens, as he approaches the press conference!

(Oh, and the "they" part? I don't forget I have a British citizenship, it was just for the sake of a clear argument).

There was also that little skirmish with the American Colonies.

We'll be taking them down again come June 12th.

Why did the BOP(s?) fail*?

I read this as Birds of Prey and thought, "I blame Black Canary." I'm a dork.

I read it as "balance of plant," the power generation side of a nuclear plant. We all live in a sea of initials and jargon.

Well, I'll just say that Cromwell pretty much fucked that idea sideways, with a chainsaw.

That's what a lot of people would have liked to do to him. (I just had a vision of Evil Dead IV: The Irish Revenge.)

We don't really do things by major revolution. Which might make us a lot better at having coalition governments, actually. We talk things out. Incessantly, with name-calling, but we do.

I can definitely see British politics being inclined to maintain a basic equilibrium, albeit with occasional lurches one way or another. But I think that the Second Baron's War, the Wars of the Roses, and the Civil War (er, the one from 1641-1651 with the whole Interregnum thingy, not to be confused with other Brit on Brit violence) were major revolutionary activities. They may not have upset the game board in any permanent way, but they sure did a number on the pieces.

Ironically enough, I see the Glorious Revolution as most everyone saying, "Oh, not again. We just got the soot off the walls from the last one." Although the related Bill of Rights was kind of revolutionary. Not a lot of countries had them at the time, that I'm aware of. But that's revolutionary in a different sense of the word.