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Originally Posted by Chris
At the risk of taking this off on a tangent, I’m curious to hear other posters’ ideas for how this system should be reformed. Because it seems to me that simply holding another general election doesn’t actually address the claimed problem (we don’t elect a prime minister and it’s clear from detailed polling and regional variations in people’s reasons for voting for various candidates that most people understand that’s not what they’re doing).
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I don't think the system should be reformed. It needs to be clear that we don't elect PMs. There should just be an understanding from the Government not to push their luck and assume they've been appointed to do whatever they want when they want.
The issue with Truss was she tried to bulldoze through a completely different agenda claiming she had a mandate for this because Tory Members elected her for it. That blew up so they change PM again and this time with a different agenda. He has paid lip service to following the mandate from 2019 but let's see what actually comes out.
We need to allow governing parties to change leaders - especially when it becomes clear the leader is a buffoon - but if these changes precipitate a big shift in ideology and policy then they should seek a mandate from the entire country rather than this self-absorbed melodrama we've seen from them this summer. A lot of this chaos has happened because the Tories wanted to have an internal debate on who they should be as a party.
We elect parties on a general idea of who they are. We don't hand them the keys for 5 years to use the country as a test subject which they can use to experiment with their internal competing ideas.