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70% of UK doesn't want Rishi Sunak to be PM any longer, poll shows (www.hindustantimes.com)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/world@lemmy.world
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[–] 40 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Britain elects parties who then choose the leader. Thats how weve had so many different PMs. Its not like for example where the people elect an individual for four years.

We had a PM who lasted less time than a lettuce. All chosen by the conservative party

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  • [+] -9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    USA doesn't really elect our leaders either. It's basically the same, we have a bunch of people that are expected to vote the way their local population votes but they don't have to, they can vote anyway they want. Popular vote means nothing. Only difference is once elected they get the whole 4 years.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Happy to be wrong since Im not American, but I thought for the presidency it was a ballot that literally had people on them (which are from certain parties / independents)

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I'm a different person than you replied to. You are both correct.

    When we, Americans, vote for president we vote for an individual by their name on the ballot. Technically, we're voting for electors who have been chosen by our candidate. Those electors get to vote for the actual presidency and can technically change their vote (relative to the popular vote), but in many places they would be penalized for doing so. To my knowledge there have been few, possibly no, legal cases which have tested these laws or systems. So in practicality it doesn't matter.

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  • [+] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)
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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    but sometimes you get a “false elector” who legally overrides democracy and votes for a different candidate.

    Genuine questions - how often does that happen? It can't be a lot, and it can't make the deciding vote, right, otherwise the whole system would have been ripped apart by the media long ago...

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    USA doesn’t really elect our leaders either. It’s basically the same...

    It was supposed to be basically the same, back when Electors were chosen by state legislators instead of by popular vote (a choice deliberately made to dilute the power of the public/prevent what the founding fathers saw as 'mob rule'). Now it's just a fucked up half-measure midway between a parliamentary system and direct democracy that flat-out doesn't work right.

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