New P M Will Be Appointed At Balmoral

[FatticusInch]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-62728328

Very sporting of Her Majesty to give the Scots a chance to welcome Mrs Flip-Flop with a baptism of fire.

[Peter Pedant]

New Judge's link is not bad
but I fear he is too young to recollect all the horse trading that went on in real time....

George V preferred Curzon ( Lord) and was reluctantly persuaded that the time for prime ministers inthe Lords had gone. Thatcher tried a foreign secretary in the Lords and that was torpedoed ( even m'lud said) by the Falklands. Pun intended

1962 - The Tory grandees said - here is your new prime minister, ( A D-H) and Her Maj said, "are you meant to do this?" and the att-gen leapt forward and said 'oh yes'
SOOOOOOO... ( I have told you before but what the hell)

Her Maj sent her private lawyers up to Cge ( putt putt putt, in a mo-mo) to ask privately ( moolah involved) Sir Ivor Jennings (*) if her Law Officers of the Crown were right or not !

(*) Prof of Consitutional Law that is ( he was)

and he came out with - you really are limited to the one who has the majority in the House of Commons.

Then he wrote a book about it
British Constitution 5th edition



Sudduv came up again in 1974 when Heath dawdled over er being defeated. No one wd form a coalition with him and i thought he took a week not a week end to throw the towel in.

But then - - what do you do ( see the article) if you have two hopefuls both wanting to form a minority govts? which one do you choose? - I think the article leaves that unanswered innit?

[archibaldy]

Total waste of time and effort, should have done it on a Zoom call back in July and actually got our new leader on with doing some governing.

[ynnafymmi]

Mrs Flip-flop cant be any worse than Wee Burney,can she.The Queen must be tired with meeting all these here today and gone tomorrow mediocrities.Johnson has gone,Trump has gone.Come in Putin,come in Sturgeon(ooh-er,missus)your time is up.Time you went.