Dont Ya Think

[roadman]

2025 is a long time till the next general election i feel like weve had a lot of prime ministers recently who havent really had the publics vote not to say this current guy isnt doing ok just seems a bit odd

[naomi24]

I think the next general election is in 2024 so not so far off.

[bednobs]

wiki tells me it might be 2025.

[ToraToraTora]

the election will most likely be Autumn 2024

[roadman]

does seem a long time since the last one

[ToraToraTora]

Thank the Lib NonDems me old china. last election was December 2019.

[ToraToraTora]

^^^ scratch that just remembered the FTPA has been abolished. So it's up to the PM again.

[Untitled]

yes the PM can now once again call an election at a time that advantages his/her party... what a great idea

[ichkeria]

It can be as late as January 2025 I think.
But unlikely to be.
I'm not a fan of the previous two, but the reason was turmoil in the Tory party caused essentially by Brexit. Not really "odd" but certainly tumultuous at times.
I don't really have a problem per se with unelected PMs, as we are not a presidential democracy but a parliamentary one. Brexit supporters should reflect that in the end it was, actually, parliament which enabled a solution to the impasse.
Where it is problematic for me is where a new PM effectively brings in a new manifesto: so the drastic "trickle down" economics" attempted to be foisted on the country by Truss and Kwarteng was a low moment. Truss of course, uniquely of the recent crop of Tory PMs, chosen by unelected party members over the choice of elected MPs.

[Old_Geezer]

The only odd bit is that among all those MPs, they couldn't identify an adequate potential PM. (I blame the voters.)

[ToraToraTora]

ich: "I don't really have a problem per se with unelected PMs," - there has never been an unelected PM, what are you talking about?

[ToraToraTora]

ich: "I'm not a fan of the previous two, but the reason was turmoil in the Tory party caused essentially by Brexit. " - there was a teenzy weenzy pandemic, oh and a small matter of a war in Ukraine.

[William51]

General elections have to be help up to five years since the last one, which means since the last one in December 2019 there must be one by December 2024. My guess is they will choose autumn 2024.