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What was all that about "unelected bureaucrats"?

All the scoundrels without a plan ran away like cowards and now Brexit is hiding behind a skirt.

A skirt that was for remaining in the EU, btw. LoL!

1 posted on 07/12/2016 12:31:25 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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To: Berlin_Freeper

The UK PM is selected essentially the same way our Speaker of the House is selected. Think of recent Speakers and imagine them wielding executive power.


2 posted on 07/12/2016 12:35:52 PM PDT by hlmencken3 (I paid for an argument, but you're just contradicting!)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Double edged sword. Parliament can just as easily can her through motions of no confidence.


4 posted on 07/12/2016 12:37:09 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: Berlin_Freeper
Unlike the United States, which has a presidential system of democracy and directly elects officials

Not quite. We directly elect Electors who in turn vote for a president and vice-president. In the occasional even there is no majority of accepted electoral votes, it goes to the House of Representatives, which has one vote per state for President.
5 posted on 07/12/2016 12:40:45 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit."-R.Reagan)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

new boss, same as the old boss


7 posted on 07/12/2016 12:41:14 PM PDT by LibFreeUSA
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To: Berlin_Freeper

It’s their system of government and it has generally worked well. She would not be my choice, but she is not going to be President. She is going to be the leader of her party which also holds a majority in Parliament.

And it’s also worth noting that Winston Churchill was never elected Prime Minister during WWII. He got the job the same way May did. The then PM Neville Chamberlain lost the support of his party and realized he had to go. The choice for the next PM was between Churchill and Lord Halifax. Chamberlain called them into a meeting and asked them whose name he should give to the King to form the next government. Halifax bowed out saying that as a hereditary aristocrat he would have to govern from the House of Lords and he believed that was not possible in the middle of the 20th century. He then said he thought Churchill was the man for the job. To which statement Churchill agreed.

And that was that.


9 posted on 07/12/2016 12:48:50 PM PDT by NRx (A man of integrity passes his father's civilization to his son, without selling it off to strangers.)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

It turns out that it’s possible for someone to take the most powerful role in Britain without winning the public’s vote.

Yeah well here we call it a democrat president.


11 posted on 07/12/2016 12:52:57 PM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacted the most.)
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To: Berlin_Freeper
it is quite common for Prime Ministers to come to power without having led their party through a general election. Recent British history shows that it is, in fact, remarkably common.
13 posted on 07/12/2016 1:00:56 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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To: Berlin_Freeper

The British system is different than ours at times it is much better.


20 posted on 07/12/2016 1:20:01 PM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Somebody can become president in America without a single vote too, just ask Gerald Ford. Resignations make things muddy for a while in any system.


26 posted on 07/12/2016 1:39:13 PM PDT by discostu (Joan Crawford has risen from the grave)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Churchill wasn’t elected either in 1940.


27 posted on 07/12/2016 1:39:19 PM PDT by Vermont Lt (Ask Bernie supporters two questions: Who is rich. Who decides. In the past, that meant who died.)
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To: Berlin_Freeper
"Unlike the United States, which has a presidential system of democracy ..."

Total NONSENSE!
American is a constitutional republic based on democratic
principals. It has never been a "democracy" or a
"presidential" democracy. Notice how leftists/liberals are
always claiming America is a "democracy." They hate the
separation of powers outlined in the Constitution.

46 posted on 07/12/2016 2:59:43 PM PDT by StormEye
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"It's not an accident, I think, that many people who campaigned on the other side [to leave the EU] appear to have disappeared from the field now.
50 posted on 07/12/2016 11:47:39 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Well, she was a member of the ruling party. She was elected by her party.

Just like the Republicans can elect anyone they want as Speaker.

If people do not realize what a parliamentary form of government is, they should be ashamed of themselves.


69 posted on 07/15/2016 6:00:14 PM PDT by Vermont Lt (Ask Bernie supporters two questions: Who is rich. Who decides. In the past, that meant who died.)
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