Posted on 07/19/2019 11:05:47 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
Oh, the horror! Conservative Party members in the United Kingdom will be choosing their next party leader who will become Prime Minister. Washington Post reporters William Booth and Karla Adam made their disapproval clear, starting with the fact that they don't think these voters are representative of the general population of Britain despite the fact that the vote is supposed to be composed entirely of Conservative Party members.
Their disdain for those voters can be seen in the title of of their July 17 article, "Meet the 0.25 percent of Brits who will pick the next prime minister."
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Don’t care for Boris. Thinking he can ‘rebuke’ Trump. Who does he think he is?!
Don’t care for Boris. Thinking he can ‘rebuke’ Trump. Who does he think he is?!
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As long as he’s 100% for the Brits first and doesn’t go along with British submission to the EU Globalists and other statists, he’s OK by me.
The People have spoken
Period
Anything else is just Mental Masturbation
“Washington Post reporters William Booth and Karla Adam made their disapproval clear....”
And attempted to fool readers by passing off their opinions as actual news.
It’s either Boris or the fanatical socialist & Jew-hater Jeremy Corbyn.
Go ahead, Compost Patriots. Get your arses over there and start to foment a popular revolt movement. It worked over here in 1776, no?
I’ve known many LEFTists who have publicly advocated for switching to the Parliamentary system as ‘more fair’ than our Federalist one. As Pvt Pyle [USMC] would put it; “Surprise, surprise!” This is how it, the parliament, works, the members vote and the majority winner becomes the PM! Since the Tory Party is in the majority, their votes are the ones that count, even at that small population percentage.
Washington Post should stick to reporting American political news. Not to worry, thought, the current iteration of the Conservative Party is a far cry from Thatcher’s firebrand party.
The Tory party members - as opposed to those who voted for the Tory party in 2017 - are not representative of the population at large. That doesn’t make the current internal election wrong - it is constitutionally correct.
The analogy for the USA would be - if the President resigns mid-term and instead of it going through the VP etc. there was an internal GoP / Democrat party election to decide who could be the next President.
It’s not a great analogy as there are substantial differences between a parliamentary and presidential system.
That being said, this kind of procedure is perfectly NORMAL in a parliamentary system - it’s how John Major and Gordon Brown and in 2016 Theresa May (three recent examples) came to power.
Finally,PJ - don’t be fooled by the “Conservative and Union” in the parties name - this is the same party that legalized gay marriage in the UK etc.
Just because they call themselves conservative doesn’t mean they have anything in common with American conservatives.
What are you talking about el cid? your comment showed a complete lack of knowledge of the british parliamentary system.
Just as Cameron in 2016 did, Theresa May has resigned mid-way through her elected term in office.
By the rules of the parliamentary system, the next PM can be internally elected - i.e. without a general election.
That is what has happened and what WOULD have happened even if BoJo wasn’t in the mix.
BoJo is standing against Hunt - both are LEAVE voters.
The “election” or as called in the USA a “primary” is between Hunt and Johnson. Corbyn is not involved.
IF BoJo loses (which is highly, highly unlikely) the Tory party internal vote, then the next PM would be Hunt, not Corbyn.
Only if
1. a general election is called - which is only likely if the next Tory PM goes mad and calls one, or if he loses a vote of confidence)<
2. Labour wins a majority (highly unlikely - at best they would get a majority in coalition with the LibDems and Greens - neither of which want to get into bed with Labour as it would destroy their voter bases)
would corbyn become PM - and that’s assuming he doesn’t face an internal revolt from Labour (as has happened thrice since he became Labour party leader in 2015)
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