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Originally posted by Tom_
I think there should have been one when Tony Blair decided to step down. We never elected Gordon Brown to be our Prime Minister, he just managed to get lucky and work his way up.
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We never voted for Tony to be the Prime Minister actually
What people did was to vote for a local MP, and the majority of these MP's belonged to the Labour Party, and the queen invited the leader of this party to form a government which he duely did.
When Tony stepped down, there was still life to run in this parliament, so the Queen after Tony Blair's resignation from the premiership invited the new leader of the party with the largest number of members, the Labour party to form a government.
This parliament still has time to run, so constitutionally the Right Honourable Gordon Brown MP is under no duty at this time to seek a dissolution of parliament and fresh election.
As for getting to vote, I acquired a postal vote, so I do not have to trudge all the way to polling station
