Comments by "Jim Taylor" (@jimtaylor294) on "What really happened in the UK." video.

  1.  @BoereViking  Technically a candidate for PM can lose the post if he's/she's voted out in his/her own constituency (as a non-MP can't become nor stay as PM [head of government). As it is though - unless it's a coalition - a MP only gets to be PM if approved by their party, and if said party has a majority of seats in the commons, relative to other parties or coalitions thereof. Also: the King could just pick an MP at random to be PM, if he so-chose; that's how Churchill got the job in 1940. (the reigning monarch has to approve each new PM's formal request to form a government, and could technically refuse if they wanted to; for a government to be disbanded also requires royal approval) Where it's all gone wrong lately, is that voting turnouts have been lower than they should be, leading to rather shitty MP's slipping in where they otherwise wouldn't.
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  2. I'd say having Biden as head of state is far worse.
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  3. Probably all the cocane she'd been snorking. (nothing would surprise me, with this hapless bunch of baboons)
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  4. Except; PR makes it hard to form majorities, which leads to weak governments, and squabbling coalitions that can't agree on anything. It's also highly dubious as to whether those elected have any ties to the electorate at all, whereas PR ties each one to a specific constituency. FPTP works fine, so long as you have majority voter turnouts, which keeps the bar for what politicians we get higher than is presently is. PR gave interwar Germany endless hung parliaments, and ultimately Hitler. FPTP gave the UK mostly right wing governments over the last century, and no coups nor genocidal despots.
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  5. Oh there's far worse than us~ points at France
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  6. Considering the opposition to her were/are all ardent remoaners... I fail to see the point. Worth noting that Thatcher only became a euro-skeptic about 13 years after we joined the EEC.
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