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Originally Posted by Peter Mallett
There's a lot to be said in favour of our system in that notwithstanding your point, we generally have the means to vote the miscreant out on a regular basis.
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True Peter - but the US system requires a review (Via Senate/Congress elections as far as voters are concerned) every 2 years.
And of course should they wish to they can impeach a President or find other ways to persuade them to vacate their position. Nixon for example.
That they don't do so very often may be because it would be very visible raking over a probably widespread pit of political and personal skeletons.
Here we allow people to avoid all of that in terms of passing power from one PM to another appointment without be asked to vote on a PM/Vice PM Team in the first place. And none of them have to really do anything about the list of objectives on a manifesto.
At least in the States the election process seems to mean getting people to provide campaign cash in return for promised favours. If the favours happen to be policy related there is a good chance that some sort of action related to the policy will be undertaken. Especially if a second term may be in the offing.