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mat said:

This would be non stop rolling news if the name was Corbyn.
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Of course it would - the lengths the right will go to within the Tory Party to circumvent party rules and oust here have to be seen to be believed. I'd love it if she started to tell a few home truths about how some of the plotters who hope to gain from any exit of hers have behaved - what Boris and Gove have been up to plotting and scheming - what JRM has been trying with his impotent ERG how, try as she might, she really cannot justify Chris Grayling .......at all.......in relation to anything. I don't like her, I think the country would be better if she went but the way she has been treated shames her Party in my view.
 
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gordondaviesmoustache said:
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.
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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 perfect fumble said:
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.
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Ok, fair enough maybe she won’t be involved, but I refuse to accept there’s no protocol whatsoever.
 
A no confidence motion in parliament?

Sadly too many MP's would put their interests first.
 
The perfect fumble said:
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.
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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.
 
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gordondaviesmoustache said:
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.
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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?
 
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