Imagine Great Britain without a government in power

Another Monty Python movie...but real life this time.

Recent history shows that the Army usually takes over in that scenario.
We'd be ruled by some General tinpot.

Zero votes?

No one would even vote for themselves?

Wait... so, in England at the moment, you have to eat the farmer and his wife just to get butter? I always knew you Brits were a weird bunch

Hmmm, I'm assuming that there would be no elected MP's, and the House of Commons would be empty.

I think the House of Lords would take over while the parties tried to figure out how to get votes, and another election would take place. The civil service would continue running things as they had been done until a new government was eventually formed.

However, if everyone got so annoyed they voted for ridiculous parties (like the Monster Raving Loony Party) THAT is when the fun would begin

I think guys like this muppet;





Would unleash these muppets;

And they would probably fight with these muppets;



It seems that nature abhors a vacuum, and humans especially abhor a power vacuum. It seems that only blood can fill that vacuum...

I was going to ask the same question. I won an election a few years ago as a Republican Committee Member for the township I lived in at the time. There was no one on the ballot and I won with 3 write ins, one from me and one from each of my parents.

I can't imagine the entire government not voting for themselves along with at least their immediate family.

An unlikely scenario, and I might point out that the politicians, and their wives and families have a vote too, so it's unlikely there would ever be no votes cast at all.

There is no minimum number of votes required to be returned to Parliament. If the Blue candidate voted for himself, and his five family members also voted for him, to the red candidates vote and his four family members, then blue would be returned by six votes to five.

I bet red would still ask for a re-count, too..!!

It's an interesting topic, but unrealistic.

But just to play the game, what do I think would happen..?

If there really was no government elected, the Queen would simply ask the previous Prime Minister to resume the previous government until the mess got sorted out. At the end of the day, it is Her Majesty's parliament, and they govern on her behalf.


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The Lords couldn't form a government. They are unelected representatives.