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[–] Squizzy@lemmy.world 11 points 9 months ago (9 children)

I hate this excuse, everyone knows how parliaments work. You vote for representatives that form a government. Everyone votes for their own constituency only but not everyone ends up with dickheads so consistently.

[–] Uncle_Bagel@midwest.social 14 points 9 months ago (5 children)

Sure, but Sunak wasnt even the second choice for the Tories during the last election. He's in the Gerald Ford grey zone where no one feels like they voted for him, making him seem illegitimate. The British public voted for the Tories in 2019 (because they are morons) with the expectation that Boris Johnson would be in charge. Now the head of the party has resigned twice since then. In theory it'sall standard procedure for Parliament, but it's a clearly unstable government and viewed as a farce at this point.

[–] 01011@monero.town 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

In what way was Johnson better than Sunak?

[–] Uncle_Bagel@midwest.social 2 points 9 months ago

He wasn't better, he just had more legitimatacy since he was the party leader during the last election. Hell, Sunak resigned from said government before Johnson resigned. That's why there were calls for a new election after Truss resigned, but the Tories refused because they knew they would get clobbered at the polls.

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