Yes. But in Britain you don't vote for the prime minister

You vote for the party and they vote within themselves who the leader is

Here, we would have actually killed that person if the system didn't fix itself fast enough I think.

Ahh, rule by unelected official. Sounds wonderful

I believe it's preferential voting

Well I get it. A republic.

They still have to be elected

It's indirect voting in theory.

The party member must be elected

You still hire a janitor. Doesn't mean he should be CEO

It's to combat cults of personality

Which while not ideal, once the country gets to a certain size, becomes hard to avoid.

True

The idea is the party puts out a manifesto and then everyone campaigns on that

It is supposed to put the focus on the issues

Australia has a similar system

I think most (informed) people realize that when they elect a president, they're electing an administration as well, with a 4 year plan

Then again we have had 7 prime ministers in as many years.... Soooooo

Doesn't always work

Parliamentary systems sounds like overly convulted mob rule

Nah. It's kind of like your electoral college except the members of the house represent the college votes

I just look at how this has all developed in Europe, and it blows my mind. It seems like the EU just sprang out of nowhere and, slowly became a regulatory body instead of a trade union WITHOUT the knowledge or approval of literally everyone but two countries, the UK finally realized that "Holy shit who gave these guys authority? They signed themselves into permanent office," tried to get out, and got betrayed by its leader.

Also we have preferential voting which makes things more interesting and stops mob rule

Yeah, convulted mod rule. Electors represent geographical areas, not demographic breakdowns by numbers

To be fair. Mob rule is more or less democracy anyway.

Just that mob is even bigger.

It blows my mind when people say "The X party is in charge, and THEY chose a leader to represent them"

I'm sorry, *the party chose a representative for me?*

You know who they are before they get voted in

In fact you know the entire cabinet

Do you get to vote on the candidate you prefer for them to pick from? We have elections for that. Well the Republican Party does. The Democrats pretend they do.

Not saying it's great

It tends to only lead to issues if the leader resigns or retires between elections

Or there's a coup within the party....

From the outside, it seems like your Parliament is run by parties, not people, and most of the reps could be swapped out for someone else and it would work just the same

I hate my country sometimes

most parlamentary democracies run this way

A lot of the time yes, but it means that we get a lot more independents having influence

At least that's here in Australia

I don't think Americans calling Reps and Dems 'parties' helps at all

We also have a lot more parties