:ira: well if Thatcher is back in style here's hoping some other things do too...
British parliament for ya; you vote for your local MP, not for any individual to act as PM, hence the government will remain the same even if the leader of the party or the PM steps down. The only selectorate for Truss is a handful of the most red-faced fees-paying Conservative party members
It's a little more complex: it's a pure parliamentary system, so, in a vacuum, you vote for your constituency's member of parliament running against other candidates (simple majority). These then go to parliament where they will form a government and select the prime minister. If there were no parties and they elected all independents they would bicker for weeks. With parties, the leader of the party with a majority (first past the post) of MPs simplifies the process and just becomes PM.
In other words, imagine just voting for House of Reps, the one with most seats gets to go to government, and the senate is actually an unelected coterie of nonces selected by just some guy, in some cases for life, in some cases hereditary, in some cases both.
Other countries have a system like this, so it's not too unusual
Technically this was just a vote to determine the next Tory party leader anyway so only the sort of ultrahog to actually join the Tory party as a paying member could vote on it. We'll probably have a hell general election fairly soon where :tory: will win in a record low turnout and will do jack shit (other than maybe further expand the police state which has seemingly been a project of his for a while now) while centrists all cream themselves at how an adult is finally back in charge :agony-minion:
If only Labour hadn't dumped the working class on the trash. The Tories found them lying around and picked them up, and won in 2019. But Labour just can't stop punching down. It's sad, nobody represents the little guy. Anyone who says Lib Dems gets a punch in the crotch.
