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Originally Posted by Chris
For the sake of a balanced discussion … he has a mandate from the one place he actually needs one. From the King, acting on advice, that he’s the one most likely to enjoy the confidence etc etc etc.
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Which, ironically, is what makes it so flimsy.
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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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Even if we accept there is no better system (which I doubt, but that’s an aside) it doesn’t change the challenges he faces sitting behind him in the chamber due to the circumstances of his appointment, rather than election. His party membership voted for someone else a mere seven weeks ago.
Just as well he’s not leading a left wing socialist Government in South America or an oil rich one in the Middle East. It’d be grounds for US intervention.