More like America 2

Another example of how we are becoming more like America (the irony being this is being shaped by arch pro EU politicians who hate American and Trump especially) .

It is like this :  in America there is a  separate executive and legislature.  In the Westminster system the executive comes from the legislature and they are fused together. The executive introduces legislation and the parliament collectively votes on it, whereas in America the Congress decides its own legislation , subject to Presidential veto. 

Today we are seeing a shift from that position to an American system. We've got a government (executive)  that cannot pass legislation and cannot stop the parliament from voting for its own whims. This is because opposition MPs won't vote to call an election, something which would happen automatically in the old constitutional system.  A government only lasted providing it could command a legislative majority, which is why we don't have impeachment as a political tool to get rid of prime ministers( the only route for Americans to get rid of a president) .

 Thanks to the liberal democrats in the coalition years we now have a fixed term parliament, which needs a two thirds majority for an early election or we have 2 weeks of chaos for someone else (why not Gina?) to show they can command a majority.

In a short space of time we've become a de facto America. An executive which cannot be moved, but one which is  unable to pass any legislation. In fact it's worse than America because they can't even do any executive functions (e.g. Benn Bill and the usage of political judicial activism in yesterday's supreme  court case).

One also wonders what the unforseen and unintended consequences of all this will be. I dread to think.