Who voted for Gordon Yellow?
2007-10-07 17:03:44 · 17 answers · asked by Barney Ard 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Aaaaah isnt it sweet to see all subserviants doing as there told.......Gordy must be beaming with pride!
2007-10-08 08:03:12 · update #1
In the UK they still elect a party and not a leader. The party has a franchise to rule for 5 years. The party puts forward one of their members as Prime Minister. This appointment then has to be confirmed by the reigning monarch. It is the monarch who invites this person to lead his/her government.
If the PM dies, resigns during this term, the party is still in power.
In the USA, if the President is assassinated during his term of office, this does not result in an immediate election, the vice president takes over and continues as president until the term is completed.
2007-10-07 22:06:48 · answer #1 · answered by cymry3jones 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The UK is a parliamentary democracy and a constitutional monarchy. Not a presidential republic. We vote for our representatives in parliament, they appoint their leader and the leader of the party in government is appointed as PM by the Queen.
The Labour party won a general election, giving them a 5 year term in office, only two and a half years ago. That is all the mandate Brown needs, or are you actually questioning the constitutional position of the Queen?
2007-10-08 01:04:52 · answer #2 · answered by Spacephantom 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
While the Labour is still in power, you probably can elect the PM from among the Labour MP-s. Btw, it's Gordon Brown.
2007-10-07 21:10:49 · answer #3 · answered by counterculturalist 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The people elect the members of Parliament, and Parliament selects the prime minister - the same way the electoral college selects the President of the USA.
2007-10-07 17:09:07 · answer #4 · answered by Richard H 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
gordon is an mp all mp's were voted in, people do not vote in a prime minister they vote in mp's. the man with the greatest support in parliament is prime minister, which is obviously the leader of the party with the most seats, in a way mp's vote in the prime minister.
2007-10-07 22:08:33 · answer #5 · answered by supremecritic 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Here let me think, I know, 1 person Tony Blair .
Have you noticed we don`t hear about him any longer now he`s not worth making spin about.But I`ll not forget all the troops who he has sent to their deaths in iraq .I`ve not put the capital I in iraq because I have no respect for them.
2007-10-07 18:56:16 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
they didn't vote for gordon brown because tony left office before his full term was up and so brown is the labor party fill in.
2007-10-07 17:34:56 · answer #7 · answered by purple.river 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I would like to answer your question with another question:
How can the United States claim to be a democracy when by definition, it is a republic?
2007-10-07 17:08:47 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 2⤋
Sounds like a George Osbourne joke to me.
2007-10-07 18:00:34 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
The U.K. is not a democracy. It is a Constitutional Monarchy.
2007-10-07 17:12:45 · answer #10 · answered by Citicop 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋