UK politics thread – meet the new boss, same as the old boss

[wonko the sane?]

The problem being that shutting down congress long enough shuts down the government anyway: it's a neat idea but it hasn't removed or changed the weaponization of budget bills or government shutdowns.

Especially given how badly americans run elections: imagine having to do like 3 in 10 months because you can't get a ******* budget passed, but keeping voting in the same fuckwits who can't pass the budget.

 

[Axaday]

I think the Congressmen don't want to do it even if they would get reelected.

 

[Pocket]

Yeah that's the other problem, Israel is a parliamentary system where the only people actually being voted for are their legislators, and I assume they're like the UK and Canada where elections regularly get scheduled on an ad-hoc basis by the people currently in charge rather than on a fixed schedule. We don't even vote for all of our Senators the same years. If you triggered a special election for all members of both houses at the same time, when do they come up for reelection next?

 

[Axaday]

Israel resets a 4 year clock every time they have an election. And man. I was confused about where to post about this, but I didn't think I put it HERE.

 

[wonko the sane?]

Canada has fixed election dates. We didn't used to until fairly recently, but our recent politicians proved they couldn't be trusted with the ability to bring down the government. Canada was pulling an election every 16 months for a while after the turn of the century. The literal and absolute minimum allowed time before some god damn yokel would scream "no confidence". Quebec was literally doing the same thing.

So they switched to a fixed cycle.