I've never heard this notion of a Macron coup.
Can't find the original citation, but it was his opponents basically using the "Big Lie/Steal" playbook same as the Trumpians. Meanwhile, there is of course rumbling about French generals threating a coup, which is why I couldn't find the specific quote I had read earlier.
So if it comes down to the better poster child for Democracy between the UK and the US... I don't know enough about UK politics to make a judgement. Structurally the representative structure is more proportionally matched to the population. All of the US greatest hits seem to show up there, though. Voter roll purges, as you mentioned.
Maybe the most important measure is the confidence that the population has in their democracy.
26 % of Britons say Democracy is not working well. 38% said the voting system is fair, 40% said no.
study
People don't vote. That's the issue.
It's one thing to call people and do a telephone poll (with the people who don't just hang up,) and it's another entirely to hang those results on the entire population.
They. Don't. Vote. The entire idea of democracy falls apart entirely when the very people who could be helped just ...
Look. The UK idea of socialism is...it's weird. It got ripped apart by Thatcher, to an extent her own party, to this day, is trying very hard to introduce American ideas into our way of doing things.
It *is* still there, that idea, but it's attacked at every point by right wing politicians and Murdoch media. It's been ripped apart for decades in the mid class media.
They're learning. The enemy. You can see it in Boris Johnson, the way he pretended he was an idiot who couldn't comb his hair.
Eh. I've been trying to explain this *censored*, unfortunately science says at my best I'll influence maybe 9 or 10 people.