Should Gordon Brown the the budget mess up man be in charge of the UK? or Should the public get to vote on who should run our country? I believe the public should have the choice of who runs the UK. Would be interested in hearing some more points of view on this...
I believe the government should choose & then let the public choose by voting on election day. The UK voted Tony Blair into office & being as we did we should trust his decision to hand over power.
In an honest world it should be the public, as it is the publics responsibility to vote a leader in. But it looks like "Chubby" is going to go in unopposed and without the backing of any of the UK public.
It's irrelevant - electoral legislation being the way it is there's no requirement for the government to ask the people. The only requirement is that a general election is called at least once every five years - they could wait until summer 2010 to fulfil that requirement.
The public should decide! However, we did vote Tony in knowingly that Gordon Brown was next in line lol.
As has been said, I don't think there's any formal requirement to hold a general election - there wasn't when Major took over from Mrs T. That said, it would be nice to give the public a chance to approve or disapprove of Brown, but nice isn't what politicians are about, it is? It's more a case of him sprinting over the threshold at Number 10 with indecent haste, then digging in and trying his best to stay there for as long as possible. Plus, even it there were to be a general election, what kind of choices have we got? Financial vampire Brown, who sucks his teeth while he talks, and "call me Dave" Cammeron who has a webcam and nails windmills to his house. The "spin" element of British politics is alive and well, and on that point, at least, there's nothing to choose between them. Rob.
This is a popular misconception - the public didn't decide that TB was to be Prime Minister - the Labour Party MPs and members decided he would be leader which, by default, landed him in the role. The only thing the public decided was that they'd elect him as MP for Sedgefield. Knowing the ignorance and socialist mentality of people in Sedgefield, one of whom proposed a Conservative candidate for the recent local authority elections but still didn't vote for her, it's hardly surprising they voted for Bliar.
Yes I suppose you are right! Let me rephrase. The public should decide! However we did vote labour in majority, knowingly that Tony and Gordon where members of this party!