[lostalex]

Originally Posted by CaudleHalbard

Yes, a prime minister is not a president. He/she is appointed by the Queen on the basis of who leads the party, or coalition, which has a majority in parliament.

The prime minister can be changed without an election if, as in the case of Jim Callaghan and Gordon Brown, their predecessor resigns.

notice how they only seem to resign when they know they are going to lose an election, so the people still don't have the power, the parties can pretend they are changing and then the public doesn't even get the oppurtunity to vote them out. The political parties choose your leader, not the people.

Why not let the people choose their own Prime Minister??? (or their own Queen/King for that matter) even if their chosen leader isn't from the majority party(or from the right family)