It’s symbolic more than anything. Just like rearranging chairs on a sinking ship isn’t going to save the ship.
Just a new face on the same policies so the party can pretend they changed. The current leader knows they have no chance to win a vote so it is better to save a little face and resign.
I’m familiar with the analogy. It means it’s a futile effort. But it didn’t explain anything about the UK in particular like the second sentence of this comment did.
The PM is the most prominent representative in the public eye. They are the figurehead of the government.
When the government is failing (by any definition) that figurehead is the one who ‘takes one for the team’. Occasionally another Minister might be the one to take the fall for a particularly egregious failure in their department.
The party in government nor the officials in the public service change. Just the figurehead… Do nothing actually changes, nothing is done to address the actual problems causing the government to ‘fail’.
This is more or less true in all Westminster style parliaments. In the US, for example, having the king president fire their Secretary of whatever department tends to be the M.O.
That’s not really helpful or informative.
No, you’re a towel.
It’s symbolic more than anything. Just like rearranging chairs on a sinking ship isn’t going to save the ship.
Just a new face on the same policies so the party can pretend they changed. The current leader knows they have no chance to win a vote so it is better to save a little face and resign.
I’m familiar with the analogy. It means it’s a futile effort. But it didn’t explain anything about the UK in particular like the second sentence of this comment did.
The PM is the most prominent representative in the public eye. They are the figurehead of the government.
When the government is failing (by any definition) that figurehead is the one who ‘takes one for the team’. Occasionally another Minister might be the one to take the fall for a particularly egregious failure in their department.
The party in government nor the officials in the public service change. Just the figurehead… Do nothing actually changes, nothing is done to address the actual problems causing the government to ‘fail’.
This is more or less true in all Westminster style parliaments. In the US, for example, having the
kingpresident fire their Secretary of whatever department tends to be the M.O.