He has to choose them from the Commons. If there aren't enough people in Commons that he can trust to work with him, he can't form a working government.
I have a hard time envisioning how someone with enough influence to be at the head of a party that's won the majority could end up in this situation, but okay.
Re: primaries -- I was thinking more of downticket races than the PM. Does Labour nominate a candidate for a seat, and the Conservatives nominate theirs, and so on? Or are those races free-for-alls, with each candidate advertising their party without being directly backed by it?
I guess, regarding our own parties, that I tend to be viewing the Democrats from a point of view planted further to the left (though not so left as to impress Europe, I suppose), so I see a party that's more than center-right. But due to the aforementioned tendency toward building coalitions before the elections, the party has to draw in enough centrist types to have some influence, and that muddies the picture. The problem lately, though, hasn't been ideology so much as spine. Democrats keep voting for things I consider to be stupid and/or morally wrong, simply because they let themselves be pushed into it. But we're fixing that, slowly but (I hope) surely.
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Date: 2008-10-29 07:39 pm (UTC)I have a hard time envisioning how someone with enough influence to be at the head of a party that's won the majority could end up in this situation, but okay.
Re: primaries -- I was thinking more of downticket races than the PM. Does Labour nominate a candidate for a seat, and the Conservatives nominate theirs, and so on? Or are those races free-for-alls, with each candidate advertising their party without being directly backed by it?
I guess, regarding our own parties, that I tend to be viewing the Democrats from a point of view planted further to the left (though not so left as to impress Europe, I suppose), so I see a party that's more than center-right. But due to the aforementioned tendency toward building coalitions before the elections, the party has to draw in enough centrist types to have some influence, and that muddies the picture. The problem lately, though, hasn't been ideology so much as spine. Democrats keep voting for things I consider to be stupid and/or morally wrong, simply because they let themselves be pushed into it. But we're fixing that, slowly but (I hope) surely.