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Speak a ommon spelling error list (hints on demand)
On Wed, 13 Sep 2017 17:25:04 +0100, Katy Jennison
wrote: On 13/09/2017 14:09, Cheryl wrote: Ideally, it increases national unity without tying the nation to the fortunes of a particular political party. It doesn't have anything to do with status as a former empire, although former empires can have a natural candidate for such a position in the person of the king/queen/emperor. We have disliked and distrusted so many of our Prime Ministers that we have been thoroughly put off the prospect of any of them becoming more Presidential. And the term "Prime Minister" originated as a disparaging reference to the presidential ambitions of some politicians. It's still not, as far as I'm aware, an official designation or job description -- that, as someone else pointed out, is "First Lord of the Treasury". -- Steve Hayes http://www.khanya.org.za/stevesig.htm http://khanya.wordpress.com |
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