What on earth is going on with the politics of the United Kingdom? Clegg is publicly meeting with the Tories and (if the press are to be believed) holding talks with Mandelson and Balls in secret at the same time. Not a great deal of integrity on show here, more like talking about marriage with one party (publicly) and playing away from home (privately).
Now I understand that Brown is to stand down and therefore, as with Blair, passing what is potentially the leadership of Great Britain to someone who was not standing as Leader of their Party and was not therefore in the frame to occupy the office of Prime Minister and who was not present in the televised debates and so didn't meet the criteria for the personality contest either.
We are looking at having a deal between the two lesser parties (out of the three) in terms of the popular vote and seats (combined) and having potentially a Prime Minister who might be Milliband, Balls or one of the other lacklustre candidates who has neither mandate not the right to say they were the choice on election day.
Seems that there is a most awful situation brewing in that there is something now very obvious with the political system and the parties within the UK.
God help us!
(modified to ensure people aren't confused enough to think there's any parallel between PM and President :) )
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This situation appears to be the norm in Politics in the UK. Say one thing, but do another.
Transparency is absent and the first consideration appears to be 'how can I get an edge over the others'.
It will sort itself out, but a new election might be needed to resolve it. If so, I hope that the British Electorate sees through these shenanigans and goes for some common sense.
Vote the Greens in - it would be a continuous fight - but what fun and we might actually get some social justice along with it, as well as getting rid of Nuclear Weapons and real time protection of the environment.
It is great to Hope, when your faith in human nature is continuously being assaulted in this way.
Vic, nobody "stands for the office of Prime Minister" ! The PM is just another constituency MP. By _current_ convention the leader of the largest or governing party becomes PM but it wasn't always that way. Also, the PM is primus inter pares in the cabinet and has no power _as PM_ to make anything happen - if the cabinet or the House of Commons don't agree with the PM, then the PM doesn't get their way. Don't collude with the media who, to suit their own agenda, are trying to make the PM some sort of president - it just ain't so !
But of course Steve, the people I have spoken to wanted Gordon to be PM, that is why they voted Labour. They didn't examine their candidate or see it as 'just a vote for Labour' and just as Gordon came into power on the back of Bliars's election, so too might another Labour PM do so, just on the back of Gordon's defeat!
I don't see the PM as a president and understand what the PM is and what he does, but the reality is that this situation is very wrong and many of those who voted Labour would not have done so had Balls or Milliband been Leader.
It was made something or a 'Britain's Got Something or Other' and a personality debate means that at the end of the day the question was: Brown, Cameron or Clegg'. This is the reality.
Nice to chat though mate :)
Modified the words on the post to make sure it didn't look like I was confusing the two, or worse still, led others astray over what being the incumbent of Number Ten was in comparison to what being a President is.
Pax,
V
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