How to elect a new Prime Minister for Britain using similar rules to the Papal Conclave

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/feb/11/pope-resigns-live-reaction


I have thought up this brilliant idea of electing a Leader for Britain in the light of Pope Benedict's announcement of his retirement.   It is based on the rules at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papal_conclave

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbFc1vTszVE

1. Each constituency elects a local candidate in a head to head with their sitting MP. The competing candidate will be advantaged if he or she has the skills equipping them to be Minister of State in the Departments listed at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabinet_of_the_United_Kingdom#Composition

2. The MP and his or her challenger debate an issue using the formal style of debating. SMS voting takes place. All on the electoral roll will be required to register their mobile numbers to be eligible to vote.  The winner becomes MP. This is repeated nationwide.

3. These MPs elect will choose a leader from amongst themselves. The ones with the ten most votes will enter something like the Big Brother House in which they will stay until they elect a Prime Minister of Britain.  Each Prime Ministerial candidate will spend a day with a different Prime Ministerial candidate until he has spent a day with each of the other candidates.  This will take 9 days.

4.  On the tenth day, each of the candidates vote for the candidate they think is most suitable for leadership, apart from themselves.   The candidate with the highest number of votes becomes Prime Minister.

4.  In the meantime the general public will conduct their own election from the top ten.  If the Prime Minister chosen by the voter and the Prime Ministerial conclave are the same then his leadership will be regarded as especially propitious and auspicious.

A way of electing a Dictator for Britain and creating a new state religion

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papal_conclave

Perhaps we should adopt this kind of election procedure, mutatis mutandis.

1. All who want to be Dictator of Britain would be herded into the Big Brother House.
2. All Dictator candidates would have to vote for another dictator other than themselves.
3. Those who object to the candidate with the most votes may elect to have another vote if they are in the majority.   This can happen ad nauseam ie until it is the case that the majority do not wish to attempt to revise the result and accept the candidate with the most votes in the most recent vote as their leader.   
4. In the meantime a parallel vote takes place by registered voters observing the candidates who are allowed to change their mind at any time.  The results of the polls will be visible to all candidates in the Big Brother House at all times and would reflect voter preferences in real time.   

It hasn't been tried before and it would make a great TV series, don't you think?

A similar system could be used to elect the Lord Chief Rabbi and the Lord Chief Imam of Britain.   

In the case of the Lord Chief Rabbi, only British Rabbis would be entitled to participate.   

In the case of Lord Chief Imam, only British imams would be entitled to participate.

Once we have both a Lord Chief Rabbi and Imam, the Church of England would be disestablished and a contest to construct a new state religion for the British begin in earnest.  

Once the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Lord Chief Rabbi and Imam have finished drafting their version of the new state religion , its doctrines and its forms of worship, they would all three be herded into Big Brother House to choose which of their religions is to be the new state religion of Britain, but be forbidden from voting for their own.

The results of a similar live poll would be made available to them.

This could be a real money spinner for the media.

I like to think that it will not be too much longer before my genius is formally acknowledged by the people of Britain.