Re: Someone explain to me UK politics
a vote in Britain means that you vote for a representitive.
you vote for that representitive on a 4 year promise. that said representitive will do what you want him to do.
parties are a concept outside voting. they are a matter for those representitives. Churchill changed party 3 times.
britain does not elect a prime minister. because a prime minister is not relevant. when the election is finished those elected representitives choose to either join together and form a government. or not.
it is their choice.
A prime minister is appointed by her majesty on one criteria - that the majority of elected representitives agree that this one representitive should be prime minister.
Tony Blair is a British prime minister. he is prime minister because her majesty the queen asked him to be prime minister. We do not have an election to appoint a prime minister.
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