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> not directly elected by the general populace Why does this matter? A Prime minister is the result of a general populace choice.
by rgavuliak 4y ago
> not directly elected by the general populace
Why does this matter? A Prime minister is the result of a general populace choice.
- MagnumOpus 4y agoI think OP means the prime minister has to be voted in by his own party's members of parliament - and OP trusts the integrity and foresight of 300 MPs more than that of the unwashed general electorate. (He might have had a point 50 or 100 years ago when the majority of MPs took pride in integrity and public service and weren't mostly full-time party hacks and climbers of the greasy pole...)
- anonymous_sorry 4y agoIt's a factor, but in a general election voters have to balance multiple considerations. From which local candidate is going to be a good advocate for my area, via which policy platform is best, all the way up to who should have the nuclear codes. And then the candidate Prime Minister you (partially) based your decision on might resign, and the MPs of the governing party will pick a new person to exercise those powers, with no recourse to the electorate. This is not theoretical. In the UK it's happened twice in the last six months.