Philip Norton, a Conservative life peer and a Professor of Government at the University of Hull, provides his synopsis of the Fixed-Term Parliaments Act and why the Prime Minister of the UK no longer “calls” a snap election.
Incidentally, if our Senators were all even half as qualified as Norton, our upper chamber would be in much better shape today.
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Thanks to you, we now understand the British dissolution process! But I think you shouldn’t throw the Senate into this discussion. If you remove all the hacks that Harper appointed and some of the earlier Liberal hacks, you are left with a pretty impressive group. Of course, they are having trouble sorting out their new life!