Posted on 06/09/2017 6:39:54 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
After receiving formal permission from the monarchy, U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May will try to form a new government after her Conservative Party lost its parliamentary majority in Thursday's election.
"I will now form a government," May said in front of 10 Downing Street moments after she spoke with Queen Elizabeth, "a government that can provide certainty and lead Britain forward at this critical time for our country."
Noting the "crucial Brexit talks that begin in just 10 days," May said the new government will work to fulfill the will of U.K. voters who decided to leave the European Union.
May also promised her government will "keep our nation safe and secure," after recent attacks in London and Manchester, by "cracking down on the ideology of Islamist extremism and all those who support it and giving the police and the authorities the powers they need to keep our country safe."
In the new government, May plans to ally with the small Democratic Unionist Party, the BBC reports.
The U.K. is facing a hung Parliament and May has resisted calls to resign, after her Tories lost 12 seats and the rival Labour Party picked up 29, with one regional election still not final. May called for the snap election just seven weeks ago, rather than waiting until the next scheduled national election in 2020.
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said May should resign.
"The prime minister called the election because she wanted a mandate," Corbyn said. "Well the mandate she's got is lost Conservative seats, lost votes, lost support and lost confidence. I would've thought that's enough to go, actually. And make way for a government that will be truly representative of all of the people of this country."
May took a gamble in April by calling for the snap election.
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The Queen is the equivalent of the Constitution. No legitimacy to exist without the Monarch.
That’s an interesting take. SNP and its agenda was severely weakened and another referendum is far less likely.
The DUP she is going to try to align with to get a majority coalition is very pro-Brexit.
I guess that is why she is seeking to align with the very pro-Brexit DUP to get a majority coalition.
How’s that play into the figurehead narrative?
The Queen is not, and never has been, just a figurehead. But she is expected to follow the constitution, including constitutional conventions at all times. The only time she would ever exercise any real power is if there was a constitutional crisis of some sort.
This does not reach that stage, so it's a simple matter for the Queen to simply give approval.
If May had been unable to negotiate a deal to get her to the magic 326 number, then the Queen would have had to intervene.
At the time of the last hung Parliament in 2010, it's known that Gordon Brown held on as Prime Minister trying to negotiate a deal until the Palace made it clear he was out of time. At that point he did the right thing and resigned before the Queen actually had to step in. But he took it pretty much to the limit (and that's fine by the way - he was allowed to go to that limit, and even arguably had a duty to do so, but the Crown still has the power and duty to say "decision time.")
May should learn from D.TRUMP and stop the PC kool aid
....Cameron calling for the Brexit vote thinking that it would never succeed.
The Brits invented political miscalculations.
Mayday! Will a British Trump be the UK’s next prime minister?
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Which raises the very real and colorful possibility that she will be succeeded as prime minister by Boris Johnson, the closest answer Britain has to Donald Trump.
A onetime journalist and author who parlayed his wit and eccentric personality into election in 2008 as London’s mayor, Johnson, currently the foreign minister, has outraged and entertained Britons for years. His shaggy blond hair even looks a bit like Trump’s mane, and his public antics and outlandish utterances bear a resemblance to the 45th president’s.
Johnson knows how far out of the mainstream he is. “My chances of being prime minister are about as good as the chances of finding Elvis on Mars,” he once said, “or my being reincarnated as an olive.”
Of his tenuous relationship with standard grammar, he remarked, “My speaking style was criticized by no less an authority than Arnold Schwarzenegger. It was a very low moment, my friends, to have my rhetorical skills denounced by a monosyllabic Austrian cyborg.”
Like Trump, Johnson is an unrepentant nationalist.
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The certainties Theresa May will be able to deliver are 1) more Islamofascists attacks, 2) a continuing decline in British living standards, and 3) a continuing erosion of British culture.
And will the alternative, a government led by Marxist-loving Jeremy Corbin be any better?
It could have been averted better by not holding a snap election.
You said: “...it was her intention all along to weaken brexit.”
I do not know. We Europeans would have been much better off with a strong British administration. May (or Johnson) are too weak now to make any deals with us, since some of them will not be confirmed and ratified in the parliament. There is not much time for an agreement either. If there is no agreement in the end, it is going to turn out very difficult for Britain. The “spechial relationship” between the US and UK can not substitute the far more important trade with the EU.
We will loose a important trade partner then, although they may be no friends to us and never were. Therefore I would prefer a pragmatic deal.
Pitiful.
Theresa May called this election precisely to undo Brexit. There was no reason to call it so recently after past elections. It was done in order to to perform a “do over “ on the last Brexit vote.
Please do some reading — some of you say Boris would be fine ... another Trump... Boris HATES Trump and would never adopt Trump like policies ... England will have to FAIL and FAIL badly before anyone will come to their senses.
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