Following up to john_kulp@hotmail.com (John Kulp) wrote:
>>I think that might be slightly mistaken, MPs hold local meetings. The
>>Prime minister isnt directly elected....
>
>Maybe, I don't know. But town meetings here are usually conducted as
>part of an election because they have to hold them in order to get
>nominated or elected.
prospective MPs are nominated here by local branches of political
parties, or they can be independants. The Prime Minister or part
leader is nominated by the MPs or party members. There is a recent
trend for PMs to act rather like presidents, but parliament may one
day turn on them.
>Yours may be actually trying to keep their
>constituents informed,
they hold "surgeries" to deal with constituents problems, the traffic
is in the opposite direction!
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Mike
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