Re: a question for the English

[Robert Graham <robert_david_graham () yahoo com>]

The queen appoints the prime minister. You can look up "prime minister" in wikipedia. Here is a story that uses the 
right words to describe it:
http://theinternetforum.co.uk/node/2621

The queen technically runs the country. However, she is too busy to worry about day to day afairs, and therefore asks 
somebody else to run the country for her. She can technically choose anybody (or anything) to be the prime minister for 
her. There is nothing forcing her to pick the person the majority party wants, but of course, these days that's what 
she will do. 

The majority party picked Gordon Brown in the same fashion that any party would pick somebody to be leader (i.e. in the 
same way the Democracts chose Nancy Pelosi to be the head of the US House of Representatives).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westminster_system

----- Original Message ----
From: David Harley <david.a.harley () gmail com>
To: Brian Loe <knobdy () gmail com>; Larry Seltzer <Larry () larryseltzer com>
Cc: FunSec [List] <funsec () linuxbox org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 4, 2007 2:36:58 PM
Subject: RE: [funsec] a question for the English

> That was my guess as well - except that press reports stated Blair pick
Brown.

Press reports are wrong. As I understand it: the Parliamentary Labour Party
picked Brown as the party leader. Because the Labour Party are the majority
party, the Queen invited Brown to form a government, as she would have done
if the party had just won an election. So the PM is elected, but as an MP,
not as the PM: that derives from his position as leader of the majority
party.

-- 
David Harley 



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