Should the UK public be able to vote on who is the next PM?

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I think we should be able to. At the end of the day, whoever it will be, will be in charge of our entire country so why should we not get a say in it?

YABU - no. We shouldn’t be able to vote on who the PM is

YANBU - yes that would be a good idea

No you shouldn't, much like on this thread where you can't

I understand your point OP and think a general election is needed. Who can possibly trust the tories after the last 12 years!!

Very true.

i don’t fancy any of them as PM, But Most definitely not Sunak!

Yes when a PM has left in disgrace such as this one has. The candidates are all awful though so I wouldn’t be able to choose.

Plus this winter is going to be pretty difficult so in a few months time this popularity contest will be all forgotten and the Tories will be in serious trouble with the electorate.

I wish they’d all just fuck off tbh.

Everyone but the rich will be affected by current cost of living. Are they saying anything about that? No. Just wittering on about tax cuts whilst the nhs and country falls apart.

We vote for a party. The party votes for their leader. It's like a choosing a school because you like the leadership team and their morals or direction. You don't get to interview the next head when the current one retires.

No

No, because we never usually vote for PM anyway.

We definitely should, many of the candidates have a completely different plan to Boris and what was voted in . What is happening is completely undemocratic.

No.

Considering that a large proportion of the public voted for Boris Johnson I have very little faith they would do better this time.

not that I have any more faith in Conservative party members either though.

It's not how it works. Although the tories are such a tragic joke I think it's in the country's best interests it's put to a public vote. Wouldn't ever happen though unfortunately.

You havent added the votes. But I agree with you. We should get a say.
There's been some sarcastic replies about you not knowing how the system works 🙄 but I disagree with them. I know how it works, but I still disagree with the system.

We never vote for a PM not even in the general election so no I don't think we should be able to vote for who is the next PM. I do think a general election should be called though.

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We never vote for the Prime Minister in the UK voting system, it's not how it works. You vote for an individual MP. The party they represent isn't even relevant in the UK electoral system. Although you wouldn't think it from media vox pops, the average person on the street doesn't seem too clued up on the whole thing.

YABU.

British Parliamentary democracy doesn’t work like that. We have a Prime Minister, not a President. The U.K. elected the current Parliament of 650 MPs on 12 December 2019. The Queen then appointed one of those MPs, Boris Johnson, as PM because he was then the democratically elected of the Conservative Party which had an overall majority of the MPs in the Parliament we elected.
Johnson has now resigned as Tory leader, so the party are having a leadership election to replace him. Changing PM between general elections has happened many times before. Johnson won a similar leadership election in 2019 after Theresa May resigned. She became PM in 2016 after David Cameron resigned. Gordon Brown became PM in 2007 after Tony Blair resigned. John Major became PM in 1990 after Margaret Thatcher resigned. None of them immediately called election

The prime minister is not in charge of the country. If they are, then cabinet, ministers and Parliament are not operating as they ought. That said, how would the public voting for him or her help any - is been bloody decades since they voted "right".

Let alone the civil service and permanent secertaries.

Surely everybody should get a say in the leaders of all political parties then?

That is a a very good point to be fair !!
Maybe the whole thing needs looking at ?

We vote for a party not the PM, that's they way our voting system works .

No, look what happened when we got to vote on Brexit.

No it's a prime minister not a president!

I was listening to the 'The Rest is Politics' podcast presented by Alastair Campbell and Rory Stewart the other day (it's v good, check it out) and last serving PM to serve a full, unchallenged term (i.e. voted in as leader then served a full term or terms without being deposed or replaced while in office) was Ted Heath.

Almost 40 years without major political upheaval. Mental