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Originally Posted by jfman
I didn’t listen. She’s toast anyway.
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We may well not elect a President, and indeed the manifesto isn’t legally enforceable, however it makes it a rudderless Government. The vast majority of MPs wanted someone else, and none stood on her “policy platform”.
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All of which is true, but holding an election every 2 years is destabilising in its own way. There may of course be circumstance where it’s highly desirable - I’d argue the parliamentary impasse over Brexit was just such an occasion, but that was because it was parliament itself that was stuck, and not the government that enjoys parliament’s confidence (which this one does, despite Tory backbench muttering).
Mostly, I think the canard that a new prime minister has no mandate and requires an election must be challenged whenever its offered. It is constitutionally incorrect, and it does us no good when people start parroting the line it every time it occurs.