Can Someone Explain Why Some Think The Pm Is Not Elected?

[ToraToraTora]

I don't get it, did she apply for the job in Evening standard or something? The leader of the party in Government is the PM! Or have I missed something? I have voted in every election since I could and I only ever voted for a local MP now I suppose that in Maidenhead they did vote for the PM but most of us did not, for this one or any other, so can someone explain, this sillyness it's beyond me.

[kvalidir]

The public perception of what they are actually voting for Jack. We are all agreed what technically we vote for but see my post at 18.19- we're going round in circles :)

[ToraToraTora]

some good stuff from NJ (thanks for explaining the system yet again for the hard of thinking) and JD, JD edges BA today, congrats JD!

[Garaman]

My apologies, NJ, it seems TTT is saying that he didn't know how the system worked.

[kvalidir]

High five Garaman x

[ToraToraTora]

na na nana na, PMSL!

[Old_Geezer]

Surely Mrs May wasn't elected to the post of PM, by the Tory Party but to the post of leader of the Tory party ? I didn't check the details at the time, but did the monarch not ask her to form the government after she was made party leader ?

[Jackdaw33]

Quite right in every respect, OG, but don't expect the had of thinking to cotton too soon

[Jackdaw33]

^^hard

[Garaman]

We all know how she got the job, we are just trying to answer the OP and explain why some think she is not elected, but I am being naive as I have realised that he didn't want that explaining at all; he just wanted people to tell him he was right to say she is.

[Togo]

Which constituency does Fishy Nicola represent? How many of the voters of Scotland cast their votes for her?

[mikey4444]

Togo....from her Wiki entry :::

"Sturgeon stood for election to the Scottish Parliament in the first Scottish Parliament election in 1999 as the SNP candidate for Glasgow Govan. Although she failed to win the seat, she was placed first in the SNP's regional list for the Glasgow region, and was thus elected as a Member of the Scottish Parliament."

[Togo]

Which of the 59 Scottish constituents is she an MP for though?

[mikey4444]

They use a kind of PR in Scotland Togo, so she is a on a regional list, in the same way as Farage is in Brussels.

[Togo]

Ahh so no constituents as such then, or surgeries to conduct in the interests of local constituents, just lots of free time compared to real MPs.

[mikey4444]

Just like Farage then !

[Togo]

When was Farage last in the commons making speeches and demands?

[mikey4444]

About as long ago as Sturgeon has !....ie....never !

[Togo]

Does Farage have regular meeting with the elected PM to make demands and steer policy in Westminster?

[Togo]

Just for the record I am simply pointing out that some appear to question Mrs May's position as PM and, maintain that she was not elected( like many PMs before her) by the public and therefor cannot speak for us. But see no conflict with Nicola Sturgeons position to which she was appointed...........without the general public voting and indeed having no parliamentary constituent as does Mrs May. The devil finds work for idle hands. :))

[mikey4444]

No of course he doesn't Togo !

Why would Mrs May want or have to talk too Farage ?

He isn't an MP, he isn't the Leader of his Party, a Party that doesn't have any MPs. You have as much right to an audience with Mrs May as Farage does !

Sturgeon is the Leader of the SNP, that has 56 MPs at Westminster.....56 out of a possible 59. That is why she has talks with Mrs May.