What a choice
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What a choice
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I wonder how the electorate will react to what is effectively an attempted coup through misuse of parliamentary process.
They probably won't go through with it or it'll fail, but the answer is an immediate General Election if it looks like succeeding during which the public can tell Labour and turncoats from other parties what they think of them trying to subvert democracy.
The Build-A-Burger™ crowd won't give up without a fight.
Gosh that's a complicated question.
The short answer is that no confidence votes are meant to be a way of taking the issue to the people for a general election, not replacing the governing party and its leader with a Prime Minister who's election by the people is unthinkable.
Neither Kenneth Clarke nor Harriet Harperson could imaginably be elected either to lead their respective parties or as Prime Minister, and could only possibly be Quislings to force through the will of a minority at home and the wishes of a foreign power.
If a vote of no confidence were successful then the one and only acceptable outcome in these circumstances is a General Election.
Any attempt to install a ridiculous candidate by a small clique of M.Ps would be nothing more than an attempted coup, and the Sovereign would be likely to refuse to sanction it and call a General Election herself.
As I said earlier though, I very much doubt that in the event they'd really attempt to go down that line.
The coup happened when the Boris Johnson 'No Deal' Clique seized control of the government on the back of some tens of thousands of Tory members' votes.
That was not 'the will of the people', just the will of a small group of unrepresentative people, and it was not carrying through the referendum result. A deal, a very easy deal was on offer then - if not a Norway or Switzerland or Canada model that half the Leave campaign were advocating at the time.
I wouldn't be happy with it if a Parliament preferred to self destruct than follow a direction from the public which it had asked for .
However, if that should prove to be the case then a General Election is the only constitutional result. No temporary government is needed or acceptable .
I think this is a last ditch attempt by MP 's who do not want to accept a decesion to leave Europe and in my view poor .
How Corbyn can wake up in the morning and think he is a unity candidate is insane, he had his chane to show unity with May , its just power for him at any cost.
At least we know what the clown Boris wants (out )
Corbyn has got more sides than a rubik's cube , nice chap ,bit naive, lead by idelogial loons , bit Boris like I guess .
So back to the OP question (hmmm not Corbyn) as he is as divisive as Boris.
Harman for me if pushed, always wanted the Labour party (to show its alledged inclusiveness) and actually elect a female, guess this is ,the nearest one might get .
After Harman lets go blue sky /left field in thought,
and ask Tony to rejoin for an interim.
On the one hand, we're told this is the biggest peace time crisis the United Kingdom has faced in a century, but then when push comes to shove and there is a greater need for a Government of National Unity than at any time in my lifetime, party politics comes first. Whether it's the likes of Amber Rudd, Matt Hancock and Nicki Morgan putting their own career above the principles they were espousing only weeks ago or the anti no dealers now arguing about who'll be temporary Prime Minister, the politicians involved are complete hypocrites - if the consequences of no deal are as dire as they've been telling us, then they should act in what they see as the national interest.
If Jeremy Corbyn is genuine in what he says, then what does it matter if he becomes a temporary Prime Minister who calls a General Election within days or weeks? Trouble is, would that General Election be delayed because of "unforeseen problems" which only come to light when he took office? Labour, in particular their leader, have given me the impression that, first and foremost, they see Brexit as opportunity to get into power, so it's understandable in a way for some in other parties to have doubts about him I suppose.
Well votes of no confidence generally result in a General Election. No need for any " government of national unity" ( complete misnomer), or for anyone to declare themself to be Prime Minister in the mean time.
Let's just dissolve Parliament in early September when it reconvenes and have a General Election in mid November, which is the normal period for an election campaign .
There's a "deal" for you, and I tend to think it's the most likely outcome.
The interesting thing here is that both sides must gamble their own political future to gain the outcome they want.
Ah, well you see , it is possible for there to be different opinions about the law. When that happens, people 'litigate' , or argue ,about what the correct interpretation of the law is.
The people who conduct these arguments are called "lawyers" , and they earn lots of money for doing it - especially when they win.
If there weren't differing opinions on these matters, we wouldn't need Courts and things would we ? We could all just google "the law", couldn't we ?