uk politics for a change...

[BeautifulBurnout]

Originally Posted by IsiliRunite

no gov. is legit until you have one single document that dictates what the government is capable of that nobody reads. Moving on!

Just kidding. Labour party can get rid of Brown because Brown wasn't elected in a direct election but was rather a succession of Tony Blair? Answer that question, and correct if it is not the right question.

Well in fact, he is legit in the sense that when Bliar () stood down, and Gordon stood to replace him, there was no-one else standing, so the Labour Party voted him in as their leader and thus as Prime Minister.

In the UK we don't vote for the Prime Minister as a separate entity to the other Members of Parliament, so it is the party with the most MPs who gets to be in government, and the leader of that party who gets to be in charge. If that makes any sense.... ahem.

But there is nothing to stop a party in government changing leaders mid-term and thus changing the Prime Minister.