Should Britain have a General Election?

It certainly is not time for an election. When they're arguing about who their leaders should be is exactly the wrong time to have one. We need to know who the party leaders are, THEN we can vote for a party knowing who the next Prime Minister will be if their party gets most seats in the Commons. We need the parties to sort themselves out first and each put together an agreed manifesto we can vote on.

In any case, it's not possible. It used to be that the Prime Minister could ask the Queen for a general election at any time - he or she has to ask the Queen as only the Queen can call one. But thanks to the Liberal Democrats, the Fixed-term Parliaments Act was passed in 2011. Elections are every 5 years. End of.

The only get-out in the Act is for the government to lose a vote of confidence in the House of Commons. That would force an early election. The government currently has a clear majority in the Commons so it will win this vote. The only way there could be an early election is if the government instructed its MPs to vote for "suicide" so it loses the vote - I'm not sure the British public would understand this!

No, then it would be as bad as the U.S. system. The parliamentary is clean and competent and gets the job done. The majority of Parliament supports May. That way they work together smoothly and get things done. The U.S. should have the same process.

Not yet, they need to hold on and let them work things along for a while. Yes it will be a terrible rocky road for a while. Let's hope they pull through as soon as possible ! I really don't want them to have to surrender to the forces of a New World Union.

The Labour Party would lose half its MPs.

They're in total melt-down.

no what we have are the losers of the last 30 years we just battle on despite them the youth could get more involved to cleanse this poison that has so destroyed us as a nation of people we are a bunch of money grabbers not by desire by survival we voted out not just of Europe but this poisonous lot that run us and you Mr Branson too you are a deserter too made your money and ran

Eventually -- though after Brexit , I'm not sure the British electorate is actually smart enough to decide who governs them.

I hope so as I dont want a female prime minister, we do remember the hell we went through with Margaret Thatcher - poll tax/council tax etc