Just a thought

Oh please stop arguing ! Lol
If it happens in a little place like this how can we expect nations to live in peace?
Be Kind to One Another.

Bluecat-thats exactly what worried me. I dont like where we areheading

outofstep, how will we have an unelected PM? A PM has to be an MP elected by his or her constituents. We have a prime minister, not a president. All government ministers are already elected MPs. The Prime Minister is chosen from the elected MPs of the party in power. This is what will happen to choose Cameron's replacement.

The polarisation of opinion is sad, yes, but I think it has always been with us. What is new is that people now feel entitled to share it more publicly. Clearly, sites like Gransnet and others inviting comment are a place for sharing views.

It will be an unelected Prime Minister THATBAGS as was Gordon Brown, as he/she will be taking over the mantle without a General Election - unless there is a General Election called in September.
Where can I buy a badge and a flak helmet.

From what I understand, if Boris is chosen there will have to be another election so he has a mandate from the people for his ideas, as he hasn't been in government.
There's always hope.

But a Prime Ninister is never elected by us to be that, Smithy We don't have a US-style special presidential election for a Prime Minister.

He/she is the leader of the party which gets a majority - chosen to be the leader by that party, not by us, as the person the party is ready to accept.

He/she then forms a government from people they want to help them.

If the Prime Minister resigns, is fired as leader of the party, or dies in office, then whoever takes his/her place at the head of the party with the majority becomes Prime Minister - as the new person the party is willing to accept to lead them.

Blinko
Just to lighten the mood!

I think people are saying that a new PM in the middle of a parliament is not directly elected. When there is a general election the Parties have already chosen their Party leaders so people voting in the election know who will be prime minister if the party they vote for wins the election.

All that is correct. But it is also correct that we, the electorate, do not choose (that is, elect) our government's prime minister by a direct vote. Party members decide Party leaders, not the wider electorate. So the method is not different in the middle of a parliamentary term from the method during a general election. That is what is meant by saying it's not like a presidential election where the whole electorate vote for the country's president.