Farage promises to use social media to undercut TV Debates if he is excluded

[Chippiewill]

But the parties all state who their head would be.. ie. the Prime Minister if they win.

Yup, and they day after the election they can be kicked out of office by their own party and replaced with mecha-hitler. The notion of a prime ministerial debate is ridiculous at best.

[AgnesIO]

Yup, and they day after the election they can be kicked out of office by their own party and replaced with mecha-hitler. The notion of a prime ministerial debate is ridiculous at best.

Yes, but people tend to vote (if they don't always vote for the same party) based on who will be the Prime Minister.

Of course, they could be kicked out and replaced with mecha-hitler. Now, tell me in the history of British Politics when anything even CLOSE to this has happened.

[-:Undertaker:-]

Yes, but people tend to vote (if they don't always vote for the same party) based on who will be the Prime Minister.

Of course, they could be kicked out and replaced with mecha-hitler. Now, tell me in the history of British Politics when anything even CLOSE to this has happened.

Not that he was a Hitler - and i'm quite fond of him even if I disagree with what he did - but in the first election when Labour won a majority under Attlee, Labour MPs were in the lobby literally moments after winning and were about to depose him as leader before he got to Buckingham Palace to ensure he wouldn't become Prime Minister. As it goes, he arrived at the Palace in his little car and Labour MPs abandoned the attempt to depose him.

But that does show that we're a parliamentary system, not a Presidential one.

[Chippiewill]

Yes, but people tend to vote (if they don't always vote for the same party) based on who will be the Prime Minister.

Of course, they could be kicked out and replaced with mecha-hitler. Now, tell me in the history of British Politics when anything even CLOSE to this has happened.

No one voted Labour for Gordon Brown.

[AgnesIO]

No one voted Labour for Gordon Brown.

Yes, because Gordon Brown is a mecha-Hitler...

[dana1099]

I think its bad that i have no idea about whats going on in UK or England.

[GommeInc]

Yup, and they day after the election they can be kicked out of office by their own party and replaced with mecha-hitler. The notion of a prime ministerial debate is ridiculous at best.

It's funny you bring this up as I'm studying public law at the moment and you have pretty much summed up how Prime Ministers are appointed. It's assumed to be the party leader, but they can easily be changed right after an election. There's no law to instate a party leader as PM, it's just a convention - or a common practice which parties tend to follow as if it were a rule.

[Chippiewill]

Yes, because Gordon Brown is a mecha-Hitler...

Nothing gets past you does it.

HYPERBOLE.

[AgnesIO]

Nothing gets past you does it.

HYPERBOLE.

That wasn't really hyperbole.

Gordon Brown is as tall as a mountain would be hyperbole. Your example of Gordon Brown wasn't.