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I think we all knew this was coming...
Keir Starmer Announces Resignation
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Our garage has been on fire in previous recent years. They just decided, again, to burn to the ground their entire estate.
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Lettuce begin to watch!
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lol - seems like every few months they hold a new version of Guy Fawkes Night in the UK.
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Every time I think Canada's in trouble it helps to looks at the UK 
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Political turmoil: UK will see its seventh prime minister in 10 years
After less than two years as PM, Keir Starmer announces his resignation amid mounting pressure from own Labour Party.
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They're spending less time in office than the average Canadian general.Every time I think Canada's in trouble it helps to looks at the UK
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Political turmoil: UK will see its seventh prime minister in 10 years
After less than two years as PM, Keir Starmer announces his resignation amid mounting pressure from own Labour Party.
It's an interesting reflection on the differences between our two "Westminster" approaches to parliament. Over the course of the 14 years from David Cameron's election in 2010, the Tories ran through 5 PMs, despite having majority governments for most of that time. Canada hasn't seen anything like that for a party in office since Sir John A died and it took 4 different leaders to finish up the rest of his term, the first of which died in office.Every time I think Canada's in trouble it helps to looks at the UK
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Political turmoil: UK will see its seventh prime minister in 10 years
After less than two years as PM, Keir Starmer announces his resignation amid mounting pressure from own Labour Party.
The big difference I think is the relative power of the backbenches in the UK. With so many MPs in the UK it's impossible to buy them all off with cabinet/PS/committee chair jobs, leaving a large and potentially unruly body of MPs to try and manage if things aren't going well for the government. For Starmer that meant continuously having to backtrack on any policy approach to fixing the UK's problems that didn't pass the left wing sniff test of much of the Labour backbench. Same with the Tory PMs in reverse.
We've had factions in our parties vying for power of course, think Paul Martin vs Chretien or John Turner vs PET for sitting government examples. Or Mulroney vs Clark and everyone vs Deif for the Tories in opposition. But we don't have the kind of formal mechanisms for backbenchers to force out a leader that the Brits have. At least we didn't until the Reform Act, which only the Tories have used to oust Erin O'Toole, and of course they were in opposition.
It will be interesting to see going forward if more of the federal parties start to make use of the Reform Act to give their MPs this kind of power.
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