Chapter 448 (1/2)
People seem to have forgotten how much they hated Churchill's remarks a few years ago. The chattering threat of war makes people want to tie Churchill to the shelf as a divine stick and burn him to death.
But now, they suddenly found that Churchill had foresight! Everything Churchill predicted is true. At the same time, Churchill is still a firm representative!
Although Britain is also a free country, unlike the United States, the British general election does not mean the election of prime minister, but the election of members of the house of Commons.
The general election adopts a simple majority election system. Voters vote from 650 constituency seats to elect members of the house of Commons, winning more than half of the constituency seats in the country, that is, the political party with more than 326 seats will be in power, and the leader of the party will become the British Prime minister.
In other words, as long as there are enough members in the party, they can become the prime minister. At the same time, if there are not enough members in the party, they can unite with other parties to form a coalition government.
In Britain, the prime minister does not need to be elected.
In this troubled time, Britain was even less able to carry out all kinds of election activities. After Chamberlain knew that he had been abandoned by parliament, Chamberlain elected Churchill, who was widely expected, to be Britain's prime minister.
In this way, chamberlain is also good. When Churchill becomes prime minister, he can forgive Chamberlain for all his mistakes. Even Chamberlain can continue his political career, as in history.
After Churchill came to power, he helped Chamberlain block those impeachments and even gave Chamberlain some positions.
After Chamberlain resigned as prime minister, he remained the leader of the conservative party. Although the Labor Party and the Liberal Party encouraged Churchill to expel Chamberlain from the government, Churchill still asked him to stay in the wartime cabinet because Chamberlain still received the support of most conservative members.
Churchill initially wanted to appoint Chamberlain as chancellor of the exchequer, but was strongly opposed by the Labor Party and the Liberal Party. Finally, Churchill appointed him as speaker of the Privy Council and took charge of the important committee of speakers of the Privy Council.
As a British politician, Chamberlain continued to faithfully carry out his work and provided many useful advice to the government.
Churchill's practice has also been rewarded. By 1940, due to the inability to conquer Britain, Germany put forward the conditions for negotiation with Britain, which almost caused the division of the government. Chamberlain initially supported the acceptance of the terms, but Churchill successfully persuaded Chamberlain to stand with him and oppose the negotiation.
Chamberlain is still supported by most conservative members, while Churchill is only supported by members of the Labour Party and the Liberal Party. Chamberlain is worried that this phenomenon will weaken the government, so he encourages conservative members to support Churchill on various occasions.
Looking at these examples, we can see that the British government is still very harmonious. In short, there will never be a strange story that the president broke a scandal in front of a country in the East and was finally thrown into prison.
Now, Chamberlain knows that he is no longer fit to be prime minister, so he needs to find a suitable person to lead Britain, and this person, of course, is Churchill!
When Churchill received the news, he was stunned at first. After that, he immediately recovered. He is already prime minister. Then, he will serve the interests of Britain!
In Paris, he wanted to coordinate the war between the British Expeditionary Force and France against Germany, but now it is not important. He must return to Britain.
What Britain lacks now is hope, and Churchill hopes to give hope to the country and the people through his speech!
Britain has never failed, and so is this time!
”Prepare a special plane immediately. I want to return to England.” Said Churchill.
We should turn to the wartime system, recruit reserve troops into active service and continue to ask the United States for help. All these need to be arranged immediately. Britain has lost too much time. Now we must race against time!