Re:How the U.K. Became One of the Poorest Countries in Weste...
by notahacker on Tuesday October 25, 2022 @07:10PM
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> However, I can't help but blame the British system of government. There is no certainty, at any moment the government could collapse, and even when it's not, the PM must constantly watch their back so that his own cabinet does not stab them in the back.
It's not very different to any other functioning democracy in that respect (and considerably more stable than many European countries which generally rely on coalition formation). The government has "collapsed" in the sense some politicians have ceased to back some other politicians because they've proved spectacularly inadequate in different ways, but it's the same party in power since the election, and since 2010 for that matter.
In other systems, there might be one person almost invulnerable to replacement even if they lose the confidence of everyone around them and everyone that voted for them, but if that person has a habit of hiring and firing people and changing political direction on a whim that's hardly resulting in greater stability, and often such systems come with their own alternative sources of uncertainty like midterm elections for chambers that get to block almost everything...
Political invulnerability of inadequate politicians is a bug in a system, not a feature.
It's not very different to any other functioning democracy in that respect (and considerably more stable than many European countries which generally rely on coalition formation). The government has "collapsed" in the sense some politicians have ceased to back some other politicians because they've proved spectacularly inadequate in different ways, but it's the same party in power since the election, and since 2010 for that matter.
In other systems, there might be one person almost invulnerable to replacement even if they lose the confidence of everyone around them and everyone that voted for them, but if that person has a habit of hiring and firing people and changing political direction on a whim that's hardly resulting in greater stability, and often such systems come with their own alternative sources of uncertainty like midterm elections for chambers that get to block almost everything...
Political invulnerability of inadequate politicians is a bug in a system, not a feature.