The Conservative Party

[The perfect fumble]

There must be some protocol for removing someone from the office of PM when they’ve totally lost the plot. Be fascinating to know what that was.

It has to involve the Queen, surely.

Nope, that's the beauty of an unwritten constitution, the powers that be just make shit up.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

Nope, that's the beauty of an unwritten constitution, the powers that be just make shit up.

You’re right in general terms, but there are some situations that demand a defined mechanism. This is one such situation. Has to be. Too much at stake.

 

[The perfect fumble]

You’re right in general terms, but there are some situations that demand a defined mechanism. This is one such situation. Has to be. Too much at stake.

Churchill had a stroke, the Queen knew, she did shit. Macmillan decided he'd had enough, so he called the Queen and told her he'd chosen Alec Douglas-Home, fair enough.

Believe me, the firm will do fuck all.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

Churchill had a stroke, the Queen knew, she did shit. Macmillan decided he'd had enough, so he called the Queen and told her he'd chosen Alec Douglas-Home, fair enough.

Believe me, the firm will do fuck all.

Ok, fair enough maybe she won’t be involved, but I refuse to accept there’s no protocol whatsoever.

 

[mat]

A no confidence motion in parliament?

Sadly too many MP's would put their interests first.

 

[The perfect fumble]

Ok, fair enough maybe she won’t be involved, but I refuse to accept there’s no protocol whatsoever.

Oh yeah, there's a protocol, but only left wing colonials feel its sting.

Ask Gough Whitlam.

 

[KS55]

Churchill had a stroke, the Queen knew, she did shit. Macmillan decided he'd had enough, so he called the Queen and told her he'd chosen Alec Douglas-Home, fair enough.

Believe me, the firm will do fuck all.

The sovereign must act on the advice of ministers and on that alone. Unless ministers act, the sovereign is powerless.
The way to remove a reluctant PM is a no confidence vote in HOC. If PM still would not resign, we potentially have a full blown constitutional crisis. In practice, the House would be paralised and the gov could not act.

 

[Lovebitesandeveryfing]

There must be some protocol for removing someone from the office of PM when they’ve totally lost the plot. Be fascinating to know what that was.

It has to involve the Queen, surely.

No reigning monarch has off their own bat asked an incumbent PM to resign in the nineteenth or twentieth centuries (not sure about the eighteenth). Even when they absolutely detested them (i.e. Victoria and Palmerston). Certainly, they have to be technically involved, but they act on advice. Some key areas of the British constitution depend on convention, people just quietly agreeing to do the polite thing. Heath hung on in Downing Street for 48 hours after being defeated in the 74 election, and there was nothing other than the risk of triggering a constitutional crisis that obliged him to go.
It's an aspect of British politics that puzzles people like the Americans and the French. They cannot understand how Britain can operate without a fully codified constitution. Yet it does. By and large.
If May goes, who replaces her?

 

[Fred_Quimby]

If May goes, who replaces her?

Need you ask? OLE :) then we could all do it the 'nited way.

 

[aguero93:20]

There must be some protocol for removing someone from the office of PM when they’ve totally lost the plot. Be fascinating to know what that was.

It has to involve the Queen, surely.

I thought it involved a tunnel and some explosives...