I hate people.

[chaletian]

So I was just reading this article, and one of the first comments was "[the British political process] produces a really vile social environment, people with dogs and drugs on the street, and a political leader who has NOT been voted into power."

For. Fuck's. Sake. When will people face up to the fact that, rightly or wrongly, the British constitution does not involve the election of a Prime Minister? WE DO NOT VOTE FOR THIS PERSON. WE NEVER HAVE DONE. WILL YOU PLEASE READ, LEARN, AND INWARDLY DIGEST THIS FACT!

We have a general election, which involves electing Members of Parliament. The person who is the leader of the majority party is then invited to form a government. This is the way it works. If you don't like it, fine, petition for reform. But stop whingeing about the fact that nobody voted for Gordon Brown. The Labour Party voted him into the party leadership, and that made him PM because the Labour Party is in Government. End of.

Edited to add: Also, I'm not quite sure what's wrong with people having dogs? Thoughts on a postcard, please...

Comments

[athersgeo.livejournal.com]

Dogs produce dog shit.
Dog shit is messy and smelly and evil.
Therefore dogs are messy and smelly and evil.

[katherinea.livejournal.com]

Replace the word 'dogs' with 'people'.

[athersgeo.livejournal.com]

Hmm. Good point.

[b-liz.livejournal.com]

No, you've got it all wrong, it's all just a popularity contest really. A bit like I'm a celebrity get me out of here, only the PM is voted in, not out ;)

[ladyguinevere83.livejournal.com]

That assumption bothers me as well. It just shows how little most people understand the system as it stands!

[balooky.livejournal.com]

For. Fuck's. Sake. When will people face up to the fact that, rightly or wrongly, the British constitution does not involve the election of a Prime Minister? WE DO NOT VOTE FOR THIS PERSON. WE NEVER HAVE DONE. WILL YOU PLEASE READ, LEARN, AND INWARDLY DIGEST THIS FACT!

Hear FUCKING hear!

ETA: I wrote on the comments page!!!

[ungratefulwench.livejournal.com]

Britain doesn't have a constitution, does it? I seem to remember a lot of smug lecturers saying that Britain 'gave' all its colonies constitutions but never had one itself.

[chaletian.livejournal.com]

It's doesn't have a single written constitution, no, but it does have an "unwritten" constitution: see here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_constitution).

[onbluebayou.livejournal.com]

Ooh, yes, I hate when people say that. There's nothing particularly suspect about Gordon Brown being the PM and I wish people would stop whining about how he "didn't get voted in".

[chaletian.livejournal.com]

LOL! Go you!

[chaletian.livejournal.com]

I know. It's particularly disingenuous because at the last general election everyone knew TB would be resigning and GB would probably become PM during the term. Pah. There's so much stupid out there!