mikrl 8 days ago

The UK is not Canada though. You have the House of Lords, we have a Senate. We are a (con)federation, and that adds a whole new political overlay that the UK doesn’t have.

The executive power of our PM relative to the body politik is much higher. We don’t have a tradition of backbench rebellion, and the PMO often wields more power than the cabinet.

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ascorbic 7 days ago

The point is that a parliamentary system doesn't need to mean an unchecked leader