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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Not Invented Here: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Jason Abbadon: [qb] How's [i]that[/i] shit work? [/qb][/QUOTE]Not very well these days... It's because, by convention, the Queen chooses the leader of the party with a Parliamentry Majority to be PM. As I pointed out earlier, theoretically she can actually pick anyone, but this way means that you avoid the situation that you guys can have in the US where the Legislature can be of a different party to the Administration, and so simply vote against all the Administration bills the President tries to get passed into law. On the other hand, it results in the situation, as you've just pointed out, that the public in the UK does not actually vote for who is PM (His party does). He gets elected as the MP of his constituency, and then backstabs his way up the greasy pole until the initials swap themselves round (Or does he get to be called The Right Honourable Tony Blair, MP PM? Honourable my arse). So not only do we end up with a hereditary Head of State (Queenie), we have a practically unelected Head of Government (El Blairo). Plus seen as how the PM is actually the De Facto Head of State anyway these days, score 0 for democracy. Personally I think it's crap that our Ministers are picked from Parliament. It means that the only real way to improve your local lot is to luck your MP being made a minister, as evidenced by Alistair Darling's constituents in Scotland getting lots of lovely railways whilst he was busy cancelling new lines in England when he was Transport Secretary. I'd love to know exactly what benefits Sedgefield gets out of Blair being PM, if he's ever got enough time to visit them. Just out of interest, how exactly does the US system work? Is Bush both Head of Government and State? Or do you have something equivalent to the 'Office' of Prime Minister? [/QB][/QUOTE]
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