Who voted for Gordon Brown to be our Prime Minister (UK)?

Question

With Scotland having its own parliament, why are we getting a Scot to be our leader? We didn't elect him, so what right has he to be there? Time for a general election I think. Dont You?

Answer 1

Couldnt agree more, we spend £400 million on a scottish parliament and they are all coming down here. They bang on about how much they hate the english but have no problem earning our money, bit like australians as well.

Answer 2

You have had a Scottish leader for the last 10 years, Blair was born in Edinburgh and if you actually look at your question you ask why he is going to be the Prime Minister of the UK, well the last time i checked Scotland was part of the UK but maybe you know something i don't.

lotsmorewine
How can you say labour got into power at the last election "mostly due to Scottish votes".
Labour won 41 seats in Scotland and 286 in England, they needed to lose 80 seats to lose overall majority so the labour vote in Scotland had no effect. His small majority was 66 seats which means even if no one in Scotland voted labour they would still have won power with an overall majority
On the other hand though Scotland had to endure 18 years of Tory rule which was due to English votes.

Answer 3

Whether you like it or not, the electorate voted the Labour Party to power in 2005 for a five year term.

In the run up to this election, Blair made it clear that he would give up the premiership during this government, and it was apparant that Brown would be his successor.

So the answer is ... the electorate voted for this.

The fact that he is Scottish is not relevant to the quesion.

Changing PM without an election is not uncommon. Alec Douglas-Home in 1963, Jim Callaghan in 1976, John Major in 1990 all became PM as a result of a party leadership change. The difference with Brown is that the electorate were told this would happen before the election.

Answer 4

As a voter you vote for the party in your local region not for the party leader thats up to the party in question. Gordon Brown was elected as a representitive for his area and now all the other Labour MPs think that hes the man who would do the best for the country. so the bottom line is if you voted labour then you voted him into power so it would be your MP voting on the issue.
I agree though it seems abit odd that a scot is PM but its still the British government and not just for England but an English parliment is a whole other issue.

Answer 5

actually no one votes for a prime minister, we vote for a party, in the case of the last general election the MAJORITY voted for the labour party. tony blair was the leader of the labour party at the time, and now it's gordon brown, just like when margaret thatcher was leader of the tories and then resigned so john major became prime minister, i don't remember anyone calling for a general election then. as for gordon brown being scottish and leading a BRITISH parliament, there have been scores of english prime ministers leading the country, that's britain which is scotland, ireland, england and wales. scotland have a parliament of their own but in essence it has not got the power of the house of commons.

and they let you people vote?

Answer 6

He was voted in by the labour party, who won a small majority in the 2005 UK election, mostly due to Scottish votes. Many of those who voted labour actually voted, for whatever reason, for Blair, because he said (at the 2004 labour party conference) he'd serve a full third term. So we're getting a Scot, voted in by Scots, though the majority of Scots have just voted SNP because they're fed up with labour! And this from the party who dismantled the constitution because they said the House of Lords wasn't democratic.

At least Mr Brown would never mislead us, for example by promising not increase taxes............... oh, bugger; is there still room on the last boat to New Zealand?

Answer 7

The British electorate, who elected Tony Blair and Labour in the last General Election.

That's all there is to say, there are many precedents of a sitting Prime Minister handing over power, or even the case of Margaret Thatcher who was deposed by her own party, and replaced by John Major.

So if you voted Labour, you get what you vote for.

HTH

Philip

Answer 8

No Prime Minister of the UK has ever been voted into office by the electorate.When you vote it is for an individual member of Parliament.That is why when John Major took over from Margret Thatcher there was no general election.The party that is democratically elected remains in power for five years.

Answer 9

It is down to the fact that they are in a middle of term of office and that the labour party are only changing Leaders. As the Leader of the Labour Party, Gordon Brown automatically becomes PM.

Answer 10

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Answer 11

Nobody elected Blair. Or Major. Or Thatcher. They elected their PARTIES into power. It would be better if we got some say in who our leader was, but we don't.

Besides, there will be an election not long after Brown comes into power anyway.