>RomCom
Think you might be asking wrong board.
>VHS
Is your reel-to-reel broken?
Agree, BO. When overused, loses potency.
Now if you could knock down the whole "baker assist" thing while yer here.
re: Theresa May pressure to step down.
A key consideration is that this pressure for her to step down is coming from within her own party.
In the British parliamentary system, the Prime Minister is the leader of the party that gets the most seats in the House of Commons. If she steps down as leader of the party, she is no longer Prime Minister, but the party continues to govern the country. They select a new leader from within themselves, and that new leader becomes the new Prime Minister.
If the party loses a confidence vote in the House (which is what Corbyn has been trying to do), it automatically triggers a general election with the risk that the other party is voted in.
So what you are seeing is May's Conservative party desperately trying to stay in power by ridding itself of the albatross that is dragging them down in the polls.
TBH no idea. I don't follow britpol close enough. Only know this because canuck system is the same.
But it's not necessarily them disagreeing with her.
It may equally be a political ploy to make it look like they have "heard the people" but just to stay in power.
Happened lots of times in Canada (e.g. Paul Martin).
Most of the time it's a leader that is falling in the polls and the party thinks a new leader will rejuvenate their appeal. (Or the old leader sees the writing on the wall and decides to GTFO while they have a hope of having a positive legacy.)
And Trudeau.