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Re:UK triggers the official Brexit process in a letter to EU by presidente20 on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @04:48PM (#13990430)
Ok you're right, I meant aside from the Leader of the Lords.

Nevertheless, having one or two Lords in the Cabinet out of 22 hardly invalidates my original point that it's an elected (by the people) executive.

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Re:UK triggers the official Brexit process in a letter to EU by dragonwriter on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @04:53PM (#13990475)
Its an indirectly elected chief executive and an appointed cabinet drawn largely from, and confirmed by, parliament, in practice. (In theory, they're all appointed by the monarch, but the traditional constraints on that make it a ministerial rather than discretionary act in practice.)
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Re:UK triggers the official Brexit process in a letter to EU by presidente20 on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @05:26PM (#13990725)
Leaving aside mid term leadership changes as a different can of worms, I think it's pretty clear that the UK public elected the Tories and David Cameron (and it was fairly obvious who his Cabinet would be even if they are not individually elected) on a fairly specific manifesto and with each MP being individually elected (limitations with FPTP notwithstanding).

No such equivalent exists in the EU no matter how hard you try and twist the facts.

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Re:UK triggers the official Brexit process in a letter to EU by rbehrends on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @05:17PM (#13990645)
How many Brits voted for Theresa May?

(If you don't want to look it up, she got about .12% of the popular vote.)

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Re:UK triggers the official Brexit process in a letter to EU by presidente20 on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @05:41PM (#13990864)
That's a lot compared to Juncker.
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