[gcruse]

Nope, president and prime minister is not the same thing.

A prime minister is always the head of an administation and nowadays is responsible to the legislature - even if theoretically responsible to the monarch.

Presidents are directly elected and responsible to the electorate.

[DustyMoment]

Nope, president and prime minister is not the same thing.

I see where I threw you off. In my original post, I used the phrase not the equivalent of their president., when what I intended to say was not the equivalent of our president, which Blair essentially is. He is the head of the British government, just as Bush is the head of ours.

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

Since you both are getting kind of technical, technically the President is not directly elected, just pointing that out.