[Magdalen] Bernie

[Roger Stokes]

On 04/08/2015 00:36, Marion Thompson wrote:
> Up here we harbour the illusion that we actually elect a party and 
> whoever heads that party will be the Prime Minister. unfortunately, we 
> have drifted hard onto the rocks of the American way so that our 
> voters believe they are actually electing the individual for that 
> officeand not so much the party.

The same, sadly, applies in the Mother Country now.  Like you we have an 
increasingly presidential style of government with a hereditary Head of 
State.  Before the last election in May I was polled by telephone and 
one of the questions was who I thought would be the better Prime Minister.

Roger