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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Not Invented Here: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by TSN: [qb] <blockquote>"Us Brits have to put up with deranged muppet Prime Ministers trying to stay in office for as long as they possibly can, despite the rest of the country and even their own party hating their guts."</blockquote> Not that I know anything about parliamentary government, but isn't the PM just the leader of the party with the most seats? And doesn't the party choose their leader? So, if the party hates him, can't they pick someone else? [/qb][/QUOTE]You seem to know more than you think you do and are completely correct. Although it is worth pointing out that, as with so many things in British politics, it is only [i]convention[/i] that the PM and rest of the ministers are from the party with a Parliamentry majority. If the Queen really wanted to, I believe she is within her power to pick a tramp off the street and make him PM. Whether she'd manage it is another matter, and in general it makes a lot of sense to have the PM from the most popular party. The Party can indeed pick someone else, and according to todays news some of them are trying to, but you really have to wonder what a PM is doing wrong to make his own party hate him that much. In the end it just means that all the PMs time is taken up fighting for his leadership rather than actually, you know, leading the country. On the other hand, there are those who would argue that this is the whole point of democracy, as it stops the government from cocking things up more than they have done already... [/QB][/QUOTE]
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