Posted on 06/05/2009 8:22:02 AM PDT by C19fan
As the chances of Mr Brown surviving faded after the decision of the Work and Pensions Secretary to time the announcement of his departure as polls for European and local elections closed, the monarch will now consult her most senior advisers if Mr Brown loses his fight to stay in office.
While the Queen still technically has the power to dissolve Parliament, in reality she only advises her prime ministers. It would be unprecedented for a second prime minister to move into 10 Downing Street without a general election.
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We will we will rock you!
Imagine Her Majesty taking to the telly for a one sentence address:
[ahem] “We believe it is time for dissolution of Parliament and that it is incumbent upon the Prime Minister to do so at the earliest possible time.”
This topic came up a few weeks ago in another UK paper and the comments were overwhelmingly in favor of Her Majesty dissolving parliament.
She thrown in a “We are not amused.” LOL!!
Wait: A gag, or it was really her?
I meant it as a gag. Forget to type the word “should”. That would be a riot wouldn’t it!
If Labour seats a new PM for even a month or three before a general election it might pull their bacon out of the fire. It’s not just that Brown has made some unpopular decisions it’s that he has all the charisma of a frozen lump of seaweed.
I’m not sure what we would get with Cameron either.
LOL
“It would be unprecedented for a second prime minister to move into 10 Downing Street without a general election.”
Interesting reminder the current PM was never elected.
That’s not unprecedented in parliamentary systems. Rather common in fact.
Don’t forget that when you walk into a ballot box in a Westminster system you are usually voting for a party and not a candidate.
Their system seems to be much more transparent than ours. 0 wouldn’t survive the equivalent of their Prime Ministers Question Time. The session are aired publicly and cannot be buried by the MSM/SRM making it very difficult for a liar or facist to gain power like the POS we have. Also, what do we know about congress’s expense reports?
Michael Savage brings down the British Government! Bravo! Rockstar and vodka for everyone!
Gordon Brown reminds me of Terry Jones half-witted brother, and we all know that Terry was the least talented of the Pythonites.
bttt
I wonder what kind of support she'd get from the traditionally English people, and by “traditionally English” I mean to exclude the media, the politicians and the immigrants.
And for a parting gift, Gordon Brown gets 25 DVDs he can’t watch....
Aren’t we being a little unkind to Terry Jones’s brother and frozen lumps of seaweed here?
Perhaps I should have said he has the charisma of a dead weasel. At least the weasel isn’t alive to get angry about the comparison ;>
It might have stopped Obama but - in all fairness - Bush wouldn’t have survived question time either. He wasn’t quick enough with his tongue or his wit. Question time has it’s advantages but it tends to elevate people who can make witty comebacks over people that are actually serious thinkers with slower tongues. Especially in the modern media age.
“Unprecedented” seems to be in vouge these days, so why not.
0, Bush, Churchill and Brown are great examples to use to test this hypothesis. Also, Question Time would be exactly the right place to ask about the birth certificate.
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