NIGEL FARAGE: Make no mistake this is a coup – we MUST have an election now

Daily Mail ^ | July 20 | Nigel Farage

[RandFan]

What we witnessed yesterday on the Downing Street step was deeply troubling to those who care about our democracy.

In the space of just a few short weeks, Andy Burnham has effectively crowbarred his way into No10 without anyone even trying to block his path.

He has arrived there unelected, unopposed and with no mandate from the public whatsoever but for a by-election victory in Makerfield.

Meanwhile, the rest of the country has been left scratching its head in bewilderment as it faces yet another handover of power to someone it never asked for, nor, frankly, knows very much about politically at all.

Considering this is someone who claims he wants to bring about the biggest change in our politics for 40 years, this represents a very disturbing state of affairs indeed.

Make no mistake, this is a coup, plain and simple. There must be a General Election immediately.

Worryingly, what few words Burnham did say before he disappeared behind that famous black door indicate his time in office promises to be every bit as disastrous as Sir Keir Starmer’s, if not worse.

Forgive me if I missed it, but I detected absolutely nothing in that short, rather dull speech which pointed toward any discernible plan for tackling the major issues facing this country.

Instead, all I heard was a lot of Left‑wing murmurings that will set teacups rattling not just in boardrooms across the City of London, but in hard-working households up and down the country.

[Taxman]

ping

[Winniesboy]

Burnham became prime minister via standard procedures that are centuries old. No coup.

Yes. It's a common event. The office of Prime Minister has never been elective.

Since WW2 the ruling party has often changed its leader, and consequently the PM - 10 times in all. Sometimes for reasons of health, sometimes for reasons not unlike the present:

Churchill/Eden

Eden/Macmillan

Macmillan/Hume

Wilson/Callaghan

Thatcher/Major

Blair/Brown

Cameron/May

May/Johnson

Johnson/Truss

Truss/Sunak

Starmer/Burnham

By contrast, over the same period the PM has changed only eight times as the result of a general election.

[maddog55]

What’s the sense of having a king and queen when you let a PM and a liberal government run everything?

You need to go back the the days before a constitutional monarchy to someone like Richard the Lionheart. Clean up the UK.

[RandFan]

It goes back to the 1600’s when the parliament scrapped the monarchy and tried the then King [civil war].

Then later reinstituted it but with a looser arrangement that the parliament would be sovereign. The monarchy is therefore just ceremonial and that has been the arrangement since.

[RandFan]

You’re right the monarchy is ceremonial and has been since the English Civil War & only in a time of crisis could or would they act on their theoretical power

They’re the sort of ultimate backstop but they can’t interfere with parliament and like it not it’s currently composed of 400 leftists. A landslide at the last election.

[Varsity Flight]

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[RandFan]

Interestingly, when you think about it how much the English Civil War must have influenced the founders some years later when devising the US system of government

They replaced the monarch with a president but there is a similar deal where Congress is the ultimate law-making body and the House of Representatives similar to the House of Commons (UK parliament) as the primary law-making and elected body tasked with supplying the revenue/budget.

I know this hasn’t been done for a while but they do control the purse strings constitutionally.

They even put in the system the ability for the Congress to try the president much like the parliament tried the monarch earlier .

They had the good sense to write this all down of course in a document that has lasted and survived hundreds of years

[FreedomPoster]

That clean up will take more of a Cromwell, I fear.