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While you are not wrong it's worth noting he was not elected by the public and even worse before he was basically handed the job he ran (internaly) on a platform of fixing the economy he fucked as chancellor of the exchequer

Britain elects parties who then choose the leader. Thats how weve had so many different PMs. Its not like for example where the people elect an individual for four years.

We had a PM who lasted less time than a lettuce. All chosen by the conservative party

Another commenter said this but the last two prime ministers were only chosen by the conservative party membership, not by general election. So about 30,000 people have decided the ruler of the country for the past couple of years. You can argue about PMs before then but First Past the Post voting also has a lot to answer for.

No, it's because he's a Conservative MP

Two nitpicks

1st: the UK never voted for Rishi Sunak. Truss (also unelected) left and the Conservative party internally chose their new leader, who they appointed as PM since they're the party in government.

2nd: most people in the UK vote against the Tories and always have. All they need to do is get a couple of percent above the next most popular party and it gives them 100% say. The worst part is that if another anti-Tory party comes around, all it serves to do is split the anti-Tory vote more, and hand them more power.

It's our voting system that is broken. People in general do not like the Conservative party.

When only the elderly vote, you get shit government.

Looking as who is voting, you're not going to remove any Tories.

Only if you buy into the Murdoch press. Similar thoughts tend to be expressed about Australia’s Labor party also, when the actual reality is markedly different.

Seems like a simple answer to vote for the one that's 10% better

The last labour government that was in power was the most right wing, neoliberal one there has ever been, and yet they still massively improved the country over the shit state that Thatcher and Major got it into.

• Over doubling of NHS funding, bringing it up to being the highest ranked health service in the world for a time.

• Homelessness massively cut down, with rough sleeping virtually ~~irradiated~~ (EDIT) eradicated. Bizarre autocorrect there lol

• The minimum wage and a bunch of other workers rights improvements.

• Parliamentary processes made more transparent

• Devolution of powers to Scotland, Wales, NI

• Massively improved schooling

• Massively reduced crime, especially violent crime.

• Longest period of sustained low inflation since the 60s despite having a rapidly growing economy

• More years in economic surplus than the Tories

• Didn't interfere with the BBC, even going as far as to put in place a Conservative chairman, because he was the best suited for the job, rather than appointing a mouthpiece for the Labour party.

• Help for childcare costs

• Drastic improvements for people with disabilities in terms of infrastructure, schooling, care

• Expansion in LGBT rights, including the right to adopt

• probably a bunch of stuff I've forgotten.

I'd much, much much rather have an actually competent government that broadly seeks out to improve people's lives, even if they do have failings (e.g. failure to do much about the housing crisis) rather than the Conservative party, under whom the UK has got worse in practically every single way.

And prepare his replacement straight away and streamline the process.

First past the post has to go. I believe it's the most important issue in our country right now, because it's stopping us from dealing with the actually important issues. To wit: we're debating sending 100 refugees or less a year to Rwanda as a matter of the utmost urgency while the world is catching fire, in any metaphorical sense you care to mention. Geographical concentration of voters should no longer confer political power where the open internet exists.

There are two problems with the urgent need to change this broken broken system though: 1. I don't know what better to replace it with, and 2. I don't have enough faith in the British public anymore to actually agree on the more important issues once it's gone.

Side note: the argument doing the rounds about "but the far right will get in" is irrelevant because our last two home secretaries have been irreconcilable, despicable far-right headbangers. They're already in.

Honestly that’s the thing about when the UK talks shit about US politics - yeah, we have our problems but yall VOTED to destroy your economy and close your borders to your own detriment and you currently have a revolving door PM where one of them got outlasted by a head of iceberg.