Johnson becomes 77th PM and forms a government of Brexiteers
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Boris and his newly appointed (minority) government have no mandate. They will not last long, once your Parliament is sitting again. You may be voting in a general election right around Halloween.
Not me, personally but yes, that is how it works.
No wonder Boris is afraid of calling an election.
So now you understand how out system works - we elect the party, not the PM.
Phew. Got there in the end.
I never had any doubt.
I was telling you about democracy, not about the British system.
There is only one poll that counts.
What is Boris waiting for with numbers like that? Imagine how easy Brexit will be with a Tory majority. What is Boris afraid of?
Perhaps, he does not believe your tabloid polls.
Boris doesn't need to call an election.
Repeat after me: "Britain is a parliamentary democracy, not a presidential one." Hopefully you'll finally get it.
I really did think you were finally starting to get it, but now we're back to square one.
Boris has no mandate.
Repeat after me: "In a Parliamentary Democracy, a wholly new government needs to seek the mandate of the electorate at the earliest possible opportunity" because Parliamentary democracies are democracies.
Boris knows that he doesn't have the support of the British people.
That's not how a parliamentary democracy works, so I'm not repeating it.
We elect the political party, not the PM. Once a political party has been elected into power, the leader then forms the government. The governing party can change its leader any time it likes - it could do it every week if it wants - but has no reason to hold an election every time it does so because the elected governing party is in power.
It also doesn't matter that Johnson has changed many members of the government. As most people know but not, I presume, you, Prime Ministers regularly change the members of the Cabinet - this is called a "reshuffle" - and do so without the need to hold a General Election.
Well, Boris is a dictator if he doesn't go to the electorate for a mandate, soon.
Yes, you have a wholly new government with a leader who needs confirmation by the British people and he needs a fresh mandate.
I'd bet that Good Queen Betty agrees with me. She does have some constitutional say ....
He cannot be a dictator by abiding by our ancient Westminster political system.
Don't be ludicrous.
Not under the Westminster system, he doesn't.
That is unless the system has been changed recently.
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About 150,000 members of the Conservative party voted and Boris was elected leader. The exact same process is done here in Canada when electing a new Conservative party leader.