**** Elections thread *****

[Savy]

I think you're taking me telling you things as me saying I agree with them or like them. I'm just giving you some information that you asked for.

What's weird about this situation is lots of people wanted an election for two reasons; brexit & new pm, they kept saying no we're not doing one, not happening and now they are. Maybe it's just so the opposition can't prepare well for it if they know it's coming, most people aren't that into politics to be aware that she's been saying we aren't having one for ages.

OMFG, is there some kind of information embargo in Britain? Has news from the outside world not been allowed to travel across the English Channel? The "we won the election" argument doesn't hold water. The other side can just say "the Russians rigged the election".

Situations give context and are important.

So the party that's in power is using its power to manipulate the rules in a way that extends and maximizes its power

That doesn't sound fascist-y to you?

It sounds just more like life to me. I don't really agree with the rule.

I'm not sure I understand that. I haven't brushed up on my british civics though. Honestly, if you can't handle calling soccer and football by teh correct names, it's amazing you get anything done over there.

If you're actually asking.

Where you have like a list of people who become president if the president were to die when our leaders step down (does this ever happen with the president?) it falls to the political party itself to elect a new leader. So although when Cameron stepped down we ended up with May there were about 4-5 other people who could have been elected. So it's not like we know who the next one is going to be.

[BananaStand]

Where you have like a list of people who become president if the president were to die when our leaders step down (does this ever happen with the president?) it falls to the political party itself to elect a new leader. So although when Cameron stepped down we ended up with May there were about 4-5 other people who could have been elected. So it's not like we know who the next one is going to be.

You don't just have a vice-PM who takes over when the first guy quits? Isn't this system extremely exploitable?

There's a reason our candidates name their VP during the campaign. People want to know who the backup is. They make the backups debate each other on national television. Then, when something bad happens to the Prez, there's no turmoil as power transitions to the next guy. The opposite of that is total bat-shit chaos where there's a power struggle every time something sticky happens to your PM.

I'm trying to imagine what it would have been like if America did this. So Roosevelt croaks while contemplating an invasion of Japan. Truman takes over and then says "I know I'm the commander-in-chief, but I dont' like making big decisions, so we'll have a special election to see if I'm still president"

No wonder you needed us to save your asses from the Germans.