Hurrah for stability!

[andrewducker]

Six Prime Ministers in Ten Years!

I wonder if that's a record.

Comments

[cmcmck]

Seven! and it is.

[andrewducker]

Alas he will be staying on for just long enough to not make it 7 in a decade.

[jack]

I got totally confused by the count, i don't know why I keep replying to things that require accurately counting small numbers :)

It sounds like it was already six when Starmer was appointed? (Last bit of Cameron, May, Johnson, Truss, Sunak, Starmer.) But "six in ten years" would feel less valid if Cameron and Starmer both served for six years.

And half an hour ago we were talking about a leadership election in July, but if Streeting backed Burnham it's likely no-one will oppose him and then it could all be over in a day or two. And if that happened Burnham would be the seventh?

[andrewducker]

I don't think Starmer's resignation is actually happening until next month.

[jack]

I guess, it's unlikely that Burnham will last less than three weeks :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_prime_ministers_of_the_United_Kingdom has a timeline view at the bottom which makes it easy to see rapid changes. I think two periods around 1800s look to have had a similarly rapid turnover, if they count.

[andrewducker]

Not quite as exciting as the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crisis_of_the_Third_Century - but getting there!

Peru

[bens_dad]

Pedro Pablo Kuczynski replaced Ollanta Humala as President of Peru on 28 July 2016;
José María Balcázar leaves office on 28 July 2026 with six other presidents in between.

They are about to have a run-off election for a new president who will take over on the 28th July, which will make 10 presidents in 10 years and a day.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_presidents_of_Peru#Presidents_of_the_Republic_of_Peru_(1980%E2%80%93present)

Re: Peru

[autopope]

Right, that's it, we absolutely need to appoint Paddington Bear as Prime Minister of the UK!

Re: Peru

[andrewducker]

He's got my vote!

Re: Peru

[movingfinger]

Hey, Larry is **right there**. Padding for Foreign Office or Treasury. I think he'd be brilliant in either.

[jack]

Top search result "British Prime Minister Jobs - 14 urgent Openings. Apply Now"

I can't tell if that's a silly auto-sponsored result or a brilliant joke :)

[jack]

This is all happening too fast. Had anyone been making any "Burnham wood" jokes yet? :)

[juan_gandhi]

Democracy.

[redbird]

For the UK, probably, but that phrasing reminded me of the ancient Roman "year of the five emperors," the Wikipedia entry for which starts with "not to be confused with" either the year of the four emperors, or the year of the six emperors.

[sigmonster]

From the wikipedia list, 7 prime ministers between 1762 and 1772 (the last one being North who was there for a while and lost the US war of independence). 9 prime ministers between 1827 and 1837, but two repeats, Melbourne twice and Wellington twice, so only 7 distinct people. 1837 is after modern ish general elections started. Having this many changes without changing the governing party is definitely weird though.

[movingfinger]

I rely on Larry the Cat's Wikipedia entry to keep track of this for me.