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Ok you're right, I meant aside from the Leader of the Lords. Nevertheless, having one or two Lords in the Cabinet out of 22 hardly invalidates my original poin
by presidente20 10y ago
Ok you're right, I meant aside from the Leader of the Lords.
Nevertheless, having one or two Lords in the Cabinet out of 22 hardly invalidates my original point that it's an elected (by the people) executive.
- dragonwriter 10y agoIts an indirectly elected chief executive and an appointed cabinet drawn largely from, and confirmed by, parliament, in practice. (In theory, they're all appointed by the monarch, but the traditional constraints on that make it a ministerial rather than discretionary act in practice.)
- presidente20 10y agoLeaving aside mid term leadership changes as a different can of worms, I think it's pretty clear that the UK public elected the Tories and David Cameron (and it was fairly obvious who his Cabinet would be even if they are not individually elected) on a fairly specific manifesto and with each MP being individually elected (limitations with FPTP notwithstanding). No such equivalent exists in the EU no matter how hard you try and twist the facts.
- rbehrends 10y agoHow many Brits voted for Theresa May? (If you don't want to look it up, she got about .12% of the popular vote.)
- presidente20 10y agoThat's a lot compared to Juncker.