Quote ="wad05"What is all the unelected crap about? We have a parliamentary system, a party is elected to government not a president.
Lets have a look at Prime Ministers since the war and whether they came to power straight after a GE:
Brown - No
Blair - Yes
Major - No
Thatcher - Yes
Callaghan - No
Wilson - Yes (x2)
Heath - Yes
Douglas-Home - No
MacMillan - No
Eden - No
Churchill - Yes
Attlee - Yes
So - 50% did and 50% didn't.'"
Interesting stuff. Of course, we were led to believe that Blair would do the full term at the last election. I don't think that Brown will get the mandate that Major did.