RuySan wrote:
Hi everyone. It's been ages since I've been here. No matter why I've been gone (maybe for another time), these news about the new UK prime minister made me really wish to get an opinion on what british people think about her. I could ask on reddit, but here it's definitely more personal (although probably not a good sample) to do it here.
Anyway, we get 3 leaders already who weren't elected through suffrage. Why does this happen? Why doesn't the Queen ask for general elections? Would May, Boris or this one could ever win an election?
Also, from what I hear (I usually read the guardian for international news, take that as you will), she an absolute neo-liberal with a penchant for "trickle down economics" bullshit. And doesn't even hide it that much. We're in 2022, how on earth can people still buy into this crap? Is the opposition that terrible in the UK?
The opposition have essentially no power, as it's a parliamentary democracy and the Cons have a large majority (for now). They get blamed for not 'opposing', but no one has ever really done that because of the above system, it's just that after the fact, you can produce a narrative that shows how public opinion changed over time and that changed who is in power etc. Against someone who just ignores that, like Johnson, and leans on his majority, there's little they can do until Con MPs decide they have had enough. Or more accurately, decide that their future is better served by voting against the government. And that is a very slow process, if it ever really happens.
The Queen also has no power, she's just a figurehead, with various arcane mechanisms that people get excited over, but that aren't used (though if Johnson/Cummings were in her position, they'd be pulling every lever). I suppose if she were young and enthusiastic, she might make a suggestion behind closed doors.
And Truss is about as daft a character as you can get.