The resignation of Boris Johnson and his cabinet before him does not provide the opportunity for a brand new government to step up.
All those members of the PMs cabinet who resigned yesterday will get the opportunity to decide the new Conservative party leader. Most of them will likely form the new cabinet and one of them will be chosen as the new Prime Minister.
The PM isn’t chosen by the people. The decision doesn’t go to the public vote. There will be no general election.
The PM will be carefully selected in order to pacify the woke mob and legacy media. A pro-Brexit Conservative who goes against <insert current narrative> would be bad for social justice optics. Particularly for a party whose reputation is in the gutter.
Whatever your opinion of Johnson, this isn’t a win. It’s replacing him with another WEF puppet who’s going to play nicely with the EU. All whilst playing musical chairs and reinstalling those who previously “resigned”.
Then the left will yell for a general election as the new PM has “no mandate”.
And so continue the theatrics.
So what or who do the people vote for then?
In a national election, the citizen votes for someone to represent their voting district in Parliament called a Member of Parliament/MP (like a Congressman in the US system). Each voting district = 1 seat in parliament filled by one MP. The political party that wins the most seats (has the most Members of Parliament), forms the Government. Each party chooses who among them will lead/ speak for their party in parliament, with each sitting MP getting one vote. The leader of the party with the most seats is the "Prime Minister." Citizens in this system never vote directly for the Prime Minister, only for their member of parliament. In practice, political parties determine their leaders ahead of national elections so the people will know who will be prime minister if that party wins the most seats. Some parties get direct input from citizen members of the party when selecting a leader (think primary election in the US). Because Johnson resigned mid term, his party's MPs will select a leader now who will immediately become the Prime Minister.
Some ... but not all? What do those parties do?
Also, how are the members of House of Lords vs. House of Commons elected/selected? What is the breakdown of the power and/or relationship of those two chambers?
Finally, was that structure in place circa 1787?
It would be interresting information for Americans, since our system was roughly based on the British system, with some changes.
thx
No, the Founding Fathers based the U.S. Constitutional Republic form of government on the French system. American government is really nothing like the UK. That form of government is exactly what the Early colonialists left England over. Canada mirrors the UK almost exactly - that’s why we can’t get rid of Trudeau. All the minority parties joined forces with the unpopular liberal party against the Conservatives [who split their party and became even weaker] and Trudeau either blackmailed or bullied his way into the PM role. Most Canadians can’t stand him, but unless everybody decided to vote in only Conservative MPs in their local districts throughout the entire Country, the NDP, Green Party, and Quebec bloc will always join up with the Liberals so they can be part of the “majority gov’t” and Trudeau has the libs by the balls. They’ll never choose another leader. This is exactly the difference between a “democracy” and a republic. In a democracy, “We the People” only really have a voice on the local level. Canadians have no say over who runs their Country. I really wish I hadn’t come here and brought half my family with me. As bad as it is in the States, Canada is much closer to a complete loss of the will of the People.
I was commenting generally and not specifically to any party in the UK. I suppose different political parties have their own systems for internal elections that vary from each other (i,e/ In the US the Dems have "super delegates," party insiders with more influence in the leadership selection process).
As for the House of Lords/Commons question, not something I know about. Maybe someone in the UK can answer.
Hast thou never heard of monarchy? The people vote to securely establish that the people, you see, have indeed voted.
Lol
Something about some dickhead named George.
What with that hereditary dickhead thing, though, it becomes difficult to remember which dickhead did what and when.
Sort of like American politics.
After which, they proceed to congratulate each other for completing an important task that accomplished precisely nothing.
Nigel Farage is the ONlY one I would trust.