The queen appoints the prime minister. You can look up "prime minister" in wikipedia. Here is a story that uses the right words to describe it: http://theinternetforum.co.uk/node/2621
The queen technically runs the country. However, she is too busy to worry about day to day afairs, and therefore asks somebody else to run the country for her. She can technically choose anybody (or anything) to be the prime minister for her. There is nothing forcing her to pick the person the majority party wants, but of course, these days that's what she will do. The majority party picked Gordon Brown in the same fashion that any party would pick somebody to be leader (i.e. in the same way the Democracts chose Nancy Pelosi to be the head of the US House of Representatives). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westminster_system ----- Original Message ---- From: David Harley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Brian Loe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Larry Seltzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: FunSec [List] <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, July 4, 2007 2:36:58 PM Subject: RE: [funsec] a question for the English > That was my guess as well - except that press reports stated Blair pick Brown. Press reports are wrong. As I understand it: the Parliamentary Labour Party picked Brown as the party leader. Because the Labour Party are the majority party, the Queen invited Brown to form a government, as she would have done if the party had just won an election. So the PM is elected, but as an MP, not as the PM: that derives from his position as leader of the majority party. -- David Harley _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Choose the right car based on your needs. Check out Yahoo! Autos new Car Finder tool. http://autos.yahoo.com/carfinder/ _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
