Indians are not fit to rule – they are only fit to be ruled –
thundered British a few decades ago ! ..
.. now it is not London Bridge that is falling down, but the British Parliament
and together the UK system of governance !!
Their conquest was not
driven by a strategy to spread their power, either in their own interests or
that of the people they ruled. They first engaged with India as members of the
monopolistic East India Company. From the start they were anxious about
challenges to their position from other European merchants and Indian rulers. Trade
always involved violence, with the company recruiting armies and building forts
from the late 1600s. what it was – British Empire was founded in India as UK
colonised major parts of the globe and looted Nations, carrying away the riches
and mismanaging the affairs in every country.
There were rulers like
Winston Churchill who disparaged India and other colonial countries stating
that they were not capable of self-rule .. and his own Nation is now in
turmoil, struggling for revival after Corona and struggling on political front
too.
In a land which proclaimed
as ideal democracy, the representation
of women in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom has been an issue at
numerous points in the 20th and 21st centuries. Originally debate centred on
whether women should be allowed to vote and stand for election as Members of
Parliament. The Parliament (Qualification of Women) Act 1918 gave women over 21
the right to stand for election as a Member of Parliament. The United Kingdom has had three female Prime Ministers:
Margaret Thatcher (1979–1990), Theresa May (2016–2019), and Liz Truss (2022).
The ceremonial
head is the Monarch .. .. the Prime minister of the United Kingdom is
the head of government. The prime minister advises the sovereign on the
exercise of much of the royal prerogative, chairs the Cabinet and selects its
ministers. As modern prime ministers hold office by virtue of their ability to
command the confidence of the House of Commons, they sit as members of
Parliament. The office of prime minister is not
established by any statute or constitutional document, but exists only by
long-established convention, whereby the reigning monarch appoints as
prime minister the person most likely to command the confidence of the House of
Commons; this individual is typically
the leader of the political party or coalition of parties that holds the
largest number of seats in that chamber. The PM has certain privileges, such as
residency of 10 Downing Street, are accorded to prime ministers by virtue of
their position as First Lord of the Treasury.
The post is not
whether the system is a success but the buzz news of PM Liz Truss
resigning. The Conservative Party leader and Prime Minister
Liz Truss has announced that she is
resigning, following pressure from
Conservative MPs citing the loss in public confidence in the government's
policies following the September 2022 mini-budget. Truss
resigned today, 44 days after taking office, making her the projected shortest
tenured prime minister in the United Kingdom's history.
According to the Daily
Telegraph, by 17 October there were at least five Conservative MPs calling for
Truss's resignation: Crispin Blunt, Andrew Bridgen, Angela Richardson, Charles
Walker and Jamie Wallis. In an interview
with the BBC's Chris Mason that evening Truss said she was "sorry for the
mistakes that have been made" but remained "committed to the
vision".
Mary Elizabeth Truss (26
July 1975) is a British politician who served as the prime minister of the
United Kingdom since 6 September 2022. She announced her resignation as prime
minister on 20 October 2022, after 44 days in office, but will continue to
serve until a successor is chosen on 28 October 2022. She also announced her resignation as leader
of the Conservative Party on the same day. She had previously held various
Cabinet offices under prime ministers David Cameron, Theresa May and Boris
Johnson, most recently as foreign secretary from 2021 to 2022. Truss has been
Member of Parliament (MP) for South West Norfolk since 2010.
Robert Walpole,
1st Earl of Orford, KG PC (1676 – 1745) was a British statesman and Whig
politician who is regarded as the de
facto first Prime Minister of Great Britain. Although the exact dates of
Walpole's dominance, dubbed the "Robinocracy", are a matter of scholarly debate, the period
1721–1742 is often used – a period of 21 years ! H. T. Dickinson
sums up his historical role by saying that "Walpole was one of the
greatest politicians in British history. He played a significant role in
sustaining the Whig party, safeguarding the Hanoverian succession, and
defending the principles of the Glorious Revolution (1688).
Decades later
came - George Canning FRS (1770 - 1827) a British Tory statesman. He held
various senior cabinet positions under numerous prime ministers, including two
important terms as Foreign Secretary, finally becoming Prime Minister of the
United Kingdom for the last 119 days of his life, from April to August 1827. The
son of an actress and a failed businessman and lawyer, Canning was supported
financially by his uncle, Stratford Canning, which allowed him to attend Eton
College and Christ Church, Oxford. Canning entered politics in 1793 and rose
rapidly. His tenure was cut short not by defeat on the floor of the House but
after he was assassinated in 1812. When Lord Liverpool resigned in April 1827,
Canning was chosen to succeed him as Prime Minister, ahead of the Duke of
Wellington and Sir Robert Peel. Both of them declined to serve under Canning,
and the Tories split between Peel and Wellington's Ultra-Tories and the
Canningites. He died in office in August
1827, after 119 days in office, the second shortest tenure ever of any British
Prime Minister to have completed their period in office, as of October 2022.
20th Oct 2022.
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