| Topic: | Re:A Stalinist Coronation | |
| Posted by: | Richard Jennings | |
| Date/Time: | 17/05/07 09:31:00 |
| "It is absolutely incredible that a party in power in this country has elected a leader without having a contested election and thereby been able to appoint the next Prime Minister without an election." I don't know why you find it incredible. It's what the Conservatives did in 1957 and 1963. It was only the disunited state of the party that made it necessary to have the messy contested election in 1990. And then John Major didn't hold a general election until 1992. |