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Related: About this forumAnyone watching the handover?
Ya gotta love the swiftness of it all if nothing else.
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Anyone watching the handover? (Original Post)
BooScout
Jul 2016
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mwooldri
(10,303 posts)1. Listening, yes.
Some people have the TV on all the time; I have the wireless (radio). Stuck on BBC World Service.
The UK setup is fairly swift. General elections don't drag out. Votes are on paper and hand counted. Prime Ministers can change, and quickly. That there is a PM change without a general election isn't unusual in British politics.
pennylane100
(3,425 posts)2. Yes, I had forgotten about the quick change when a prime minister leaves.
T_i_B
(14,749 posts)3. When Margaret Thatcher was in charge we had Thatcherism....
Does that mean we now have Mayhem?
RogueTrooper
(4,665 posts)7. I'm stealing that!
non sociopath skin
(4,972 posts)6. I had better things to do.
And even if I hadn't, I'd have invented something.
A little disappointed that The Man Who Broke Britain didn't do a joint curtain call with The Man Who Broke The Middle East so that the country could have enjoyed saying Good Riddance to them at the same time.
The Skin