Voting In U.k Versus Us.

[Smowball]

Why is it that in the US the voters get to vote for the actual person they want to be President i.e. Trump or Clinton this time, but here we vote for the party and then they choose who will become Prime Minister and not us?

Am sure there is a logical reason but I've not heard what it is.

[Smowball]

I was joking lol.....,,(he wouldn't would he lol)

[tonyav]

(he wouldn't would he lol)


Well he has history doesn't he ;-)

[mikey4444]

Smowy....in almost all of our elections, the Leader of the Party that gets the most votes, gets to be PM. I can't think of an occasion in recent years, where the person that led the winning Party, doesn't get into Number Ten.

And we have a Parliamentary style of Government, not a Presidential one.

But don't forget that in America, the person who has the most votes sometimes doesn't win, as we can see from the election of Trump. Hilary got more votes but it didn't count for anything.

[Smowball]

All very strange

[Jackdaw33]

I have yet to see any convincing argument for replacing a ceremonial monarch with a ceremonial president.

[sevenOP]

The U.S. general electorate do not get to vote for who will be President, a selective electorate group get to nominate who the general electorate can vote for; much the same as here, there and possibly everywhere.

[Old_Geezer]

I'd prefer neither monarch nor president. They are both superfluous as government already covers the tasks of governing. And buildings need no official opening ceremony.

[Old_Geezer]

Oh this thread's been around since last month eh. Well couldn't expect to recall I'd contributed before, this time of the morning. Especially at my age ;-)