Can someone familiar with parliamentary democracy explain to me how the relatively strong party discipline in such countries (vis-à-vis the US, where party discipline is fairly weak) is enforced?
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Wait, so like, the British version of Paul Ryan or whatever gets to pick who stands for election on the Conservative ticket?
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Basically yes
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That explains it So then presumably the government of the day can pretty much pass whatever legislation it wants most of the time, right?
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Yes voting down of bills is fantastically rare and shows bad management
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