Comment on majority leader Liz Truss setting up popular-conservative facade

Many congratulations to our former prime minister Liz Truss who led a majority government for the last time before Rishi Sunak took over from her and decided that an adult smoking prohibition would be his own idea to materialise. Liz Truss defeated Rishi Sunak who came second when she was elected to lead the ruling party from 2019, and Rishi Sunak is now the prime minister owing to the fact that Liz Truss was toppled from power in a similar fashion to the way the elected prime minister from the last general election Boris Johnson was toppled from power by the state mechanism of ministers and highly ranked civil servants. Thus while Liz Truss led a majority government like Boris Johnson, Rishi Sunak is currently leading a minority government according to what happened as a record of events. The reason he is leading the government and our country has more to do with the course of action of those civil servants and ministers who resigned and parliamentarians who revolted than with what the majority wants or what the people of the country elected. But on supporting adult smoking prohibition on his part his minority government has gone too far in parallel with its nature as a minority government supported by those who support him who are less than those who supported Liz Truss or Boris Johnson.

Liz Truss is indeed a populist conservative who was foreign minister in Boris Johnson’s elected government which has still been elected the last time elections were held. The reason she is not still in power had nothing to do with what the people of this country or the majority prefered, rather has to do with what only a small fraction of individuals decided for us instead of us and those are the ones who toppled Liz Truss from power after her brief time in office. This is not a democratic procedure as it took place but intergovernmental strife and conflict that determined who rules the country at present. Which is of course the second choice to herself and the third choice after the person who has been elected from the last time elections were held, who even resigned from his seat in parliament within the same term during which he was chosen to lead the country.

It does not make any sense to elect a leader who is later deprived of his properties of representing those who elected him to the parliament if he loses his seat in it within the same term during which he got elected to be the prime minister. The correct order of events is that Boris Johnson should not only be an MP but a minister of state and the prime minister – he cannot end up to be none of the above given the popular verdict of the last general election that was held. Yet this is what happened and it is a constitutional question to be solved.

When the prime minister resigns, fresh elections should be held to renew the popular wish. The next leader of the same ruling party to be elected internally from its members does not equate to what elections are held for and the next leader of the ruling party is not the de facto next leader of the whole country, but of the ruling party which held internal elections. The leader of the whole country will attain their post through calling elections and appointing the majority leader after asking each and every person to vote for their preference. Party-elections are not a substitute of general parliamentary elections because they happened within the ruling party itself. Otherwise, this is the way Rishi Sunak got into power, somebody who cannot judge why adult smoking prohibition is wrong for the people of this country. Not only wrong for the people of this country, but bad for its reputation as well just like the smoking ban upheld in most other countries is bad for our reputation.

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