{UAH} WHAT'S HAPPENING IN BRITAIN NOW ISNT REALLY STRANGE.

WHAT'S HAPPENING IN BRITAIN NOW ISNT REALLY STRANGE.

By Abbey Kibirige Semuwemba 

Britain is a unique country when it comes to change of leadership. They can remove anybody  they don't like, though these days it called  "Resignation ". The British aren't even worried of dropping war heroes. It would have been unthinkable for Museveni to lose the 1996 elections  -- the first election after the Luwero war. But that's exactly what happened to Churchill after WW2 in 1945.

Churchill's Conservatives in 1945 failed to win more seats in the House of Commons than Labour. So technically Churchill lost his first general election as leader in 1945 and his second again in 1950. It wasn't until 1951 did his party won a majority of seats and Churchill became Prime Minister again.

Can you imagine the British Parliament  even attempted to remove Churchill in the middle of the war. On January 29th 1942 there was a vote of confidence on Churchills leadership in the House of Commons which he resoundingly won.

Voting for a PM now is slightly different in that now conservative party members also get to vote on who the leader of the party is. In Churchill's day it was just the MPs, I believe.

Personally, I think this is the right way to do it, as MPs are elected to represent us and should be best placed to pick the best from amongst themselves. Getting the general public, especially if majority are ignorant, to pick a leader ends up being a popularity contest driven by propaganda not educated experience of the person.

Angus Calder's book called "The Peoples War" is excellent on the changes in British Society during WW2. 

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