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It seems that we shall have yet another "Coronation"

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/may/16/may-averts-tory-mutiny-by-agreeing-to-set-her-exit-date-after-brexit-bill-vote

May agrees to set her exit date

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Well, she has finally decided to set a date for her departure from Number 10. Or has she? The Prime Minister who has more political lives than a cat, has agreed to set a timetable for her departure as prime minister in the first week of June. Personally, I will believe it when she climbs into the back of the limo and disappears out of Downing Street and into oblivion. 
In the meantime however, the runners and riders are circling behind the starting line waiting for the man to wave the flag or raise the tape or whatever they do to start the hustings. In Great Britain, we do not elect a Prime Minister. We just vote for the party of our choice and get a Prime Minister by default who just happens to be the leader of the party gaining the most seats at the election. However, the leader of a party will have an effect on the way in which the electorate cast their votes and the personality or political position of he or she, will influence the final make up of the Commons. That is where a problem arises when the leader of a party decides to stand down when holding the office of PM and the next leader of that party automatically becomes our prime Minister. The so called "Coronation" has now taken place with Brown, May herself and will also occur with whoever the Conservative party members choose as their next leader. It is wrong and completely unacceptable that an electorate of around 45 million in this country can have a Prime Minister inflicted upon them according to the whims and vagaries of perhaps only 100, 000 people who happen to be the members of a political party that just happens to be forming a government at that time.The only way which is fair and equitable would be to have a general election should a party change its leader during the time that he or she is Prime Minister. Thus is the case when (if) Prime Minister May actually stands down. The country did not choose her as PM nor will they have any say should Johnson, or Hunt, or Mcvey, or Gove, or Raab or any of the other numerous hopefuls who have so far thrown their hats into the ring, become the next PM with yet another"coronation". Such is the attraction of the post with all its privileges and perks that the next person to be elected is hardly likely to call a general election. The electorate will just have to grin and bear it no matter which person the Conservatives choose albeit that General Election is what the circumstances and the nation may demand.

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