[sivaharimani]

The Prime Minsiters of British who were not elected by people but came as interim PMs

We all know that the recent Prime minister of England Garden Brown has not been directly elected by the people but came as an interim Prime Minister. i got an interesting list of PMs like Brown as follows.,

1.Aurthur Belfare-1902-05
2.Henry Ashkuwit-1908-16
3.Layit George-1916-22 (he became PM again in 1918)
4.Stanley Baltwin-1923-24
5.Nevli Sambarline-1937-40
6.Winsten charchil-1940-45
7.Herald Machmillan-1957-63
8.Duglus-1963-64
9.James Kallagan-1976-79
10.Jhon Major-1990-97
11.Garden Brown-2007

[chanda_s]

I don’t really understand the meaning of the above post. Prime ministers of UK are never directly elected by the people. The prime minister is the leader of the biggest party or biggest coalition. And the sovereign always appoints this leader as per convention. The PM remains in the position for as long as he enjoys the pleasure of the sovereign, which translated into practical terms means as long as the PM enjoys the support of the House of Commons or the party/coalition of which he is the leader.

Another interesting fact about the prime ministers of UK is that they continue to be Prime Ministers until they resign, or get dismissed or die. Which means that a UK PM actually can continue as PM even if his party loses the general elections. He can continue being the PM and seek confidence of the House of Commons. If he wins the vote of confidence he would remain the PM despite the fact that his party lost the general election. though recently followed convention suggests that the PM resigns if his party/coalition doesn't get the majority in the general elections.

It also happens that if the PM continues to be PM after the General elections he would not be reappointed. Though Mrs Thatcher was PM from 1979 to 1990, she was appointed as PM only once; in 1979.

In the case of Gordon Brown, it so happened that he was the Chancellor of Exchequer for more than 10 years prior to his getting appointed as PM. He was indeed elected to House of Commons by the people. Tony Blair was facing a lot of opposition from within his party and he announced that he would step down. And when in May this year when Blair announced that he would be stepping down shortly, Brown announced his candidature and comfortably became leader of the labour party after he got the requisite number of nominations. Then as per conventions he was appointed PM by the sovereign.

shivaharimani, is there something different that you wanted to convey that perhaps i have not correctly understood?

[chanda_s]

i was just thinking about this and wish to add that no where in the world are Prime ministers directly elected. the only exception that comes to my mind is the short experiment that the Israeli political system went through in the late nineties. however after finding this experiment not particularly suitable, the Knesset went back to its old system.

[sivaharimani]

Hai Chanda sir,
I am extremly sorry for this mistake. Actually the problem is in heading, i wanted give a different heading to the post, but i did not expect that it would be far far different from the basic fundemental... i did stupidly. I will change the heading soon and post a correct thread.
But sir, you gave us very infomative post as a reply to my post. thank you for your great information.even though, i know all the informations as you said in your post, i mistaken.
thank you
manivannan

[sivaharimani]

hai all the members,
Please do not bother the thread non-elected PMs of british. the logic of the heading is wrong, please see the thread Interim PMs of British.

thank you