On Tue, 15 Nov 2016 23:53:53 +0800
"Clive D.W. Feather" wrote:
On 08/11/2016 22:53, Optimist wrote:
But it was a non-binding advisory vote.

When a government is defeated in a general election the outgoing PM advises
the monarch to ask the
leader of the winning party to form a government. But if this is only
advisory, the Queen doesn't
have to follow it, does she? Well of course she does because "advised" in
practice means
"instructed".

Totally irrelevant.

In fact, the Queen could refuse to take that advice. Which would cause
a(nother) constitutional crisis.

Reminds me of the "policing by consent" schtick that inevitably gets churned
out eventually whenever a police force is embroiled in some controversy or
scandal. If that were actually the case then probably half the estates in some
parts of south london would tell the police to bugger off and not come back and
they'd have to oblidge.

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Spud