They voted for Brexit. Now they can’t vote anymore as that would do too much damage
This is so unlike the setup we have in Denmark.
If the party in power selects a new leader, an election automatically has to be held. We don’t just do the old “Bait and Switch”, ever.
I realize that the UK system i set up in a different and more appropriate way, for those in power.
The party votes for their leader. The people vote for their local representatives. The majority party makes a government. The leader of that majority becomes prime minister. If the leadership changes, the party votes on their new leader and the new leader becomes prime minister.
Parliamentary system 101.
You should have learnt that in high school
Liz Distrust.
I’ll attempt to answer the question.
People in the UK vote for an MP to represent them in Parliament.
Those MPs (with very rare exceptions) are members of a political party. This is key to how UK politics works.
Next, the MPs get together and work out which party can form a government – ie which party, or coalition of parties can command a majority in the house of commons.
Then the party that forms a government picks various MPs to have senior positions (ministers). One of those positions is the Prime Minister.
The prime minister can change without the government changing. How the new one is chosen is up to the rules of whichever party is forming the government. All the parties have different rules. AFAIK no party allows the general public to have a say.
Traditionally a party not in power will have a leader, who will be prime minister if the party gains power at the next election, but that’s a convention not a law. This convention means that people vote for their MP based on their MPs party and therefore knowing the likely future Prime Minister if their preferred party wins.
But, fundamentally, ministers and the prime minister are not discreet elected positions. They are just posts that need filling by the party or coalition that can form a government.
Note that the prime minister in the UK has far less power than a directly elected national leader like the US President.
Their both terrible choices and so is todays labour party
Straits Times asking Why won’t voters get to choose the next leader?
The UK is a parliamentary democracy, isn’t it?
Seriously people still don’t understand This? It’s simple the party in power is having a management change its happened befor when May was made PM and it will probably happen again.
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They get to choose the people who choose.
They voted for Brexit. Now they can’t vote anymore as that would do too much damage
This is so unlike the setup we have in Denmark.
If the party in power selects a new leader, an election automatically has to be held. We don’t just do the old “Bait and Switch”, ever.
I realize that the UK system i set up in a different and more appropriate way, for those in power.
The party votes for their leader. The people vote for their local representatives. The majority party makes a government. The leader of that majority becomes prime minister. If the leadership changes, the party votes on their new leader and the new leader becomes prime minister.
Parliamentary system 101.
You should have learnt that in high school
Liz Distrust.
I’ll attempt to answer the question.
People in the UK vote for an MP to represent them in Parliament.
Those MPs (with very rare exceptions) are members of a political party. This is key to how UK politics works.
Next, the MPs get together and work out which party can form a government – ie which party, or coalition of parties can command a majority in the house of commons.
Then the party that forms a government picks various MPs to have senior positions (ministers). One of those positions is the Prime Minister.
The prime minister can change without the government changing. How the new one is chosen is up to the rules of whichever party is forming the government. All the parties have different rules. AFAIK no party allows the general public to have a say.
Traditionally a party not in power will have a leader, who will be prime minister if the party gains power at the next election, but that’s a convention not a law. This convention means that people vote for their MP based on their MPs party and therefore knowing the likely future Prime Minister if their preferred party wins.
But, fundamentally, ministers and the prime minister are not discreet elected positions. They are just posts that need filling by the party or coalition that can form a government.
Note that the prime minister in the UK has far less power than a directly elected national leader like the US President.
Their both terrible choices and so is todays labour party
Straits Times asking Why won’t voters get to choose the next leader?
The UK is a parliamentary democracy, isn’t it?
Seriously people still don’t understand This? It’s simple the party in power is having a management change its happened befor when May was made PM and it will probably happen again.