it's not just that, it's also how people become leaders of their party > boris johnson wins an historic landslide for the tories > is ousted in a coup > the party votes for a new leader (not the public) > liz truss wins > truss leads for 1 month, pisses off the bank of england > is forced to resign > sunak, who came third, becomes leader > takes the tories to their first loss in 13 years > starmer becomes british prime minister despite his party winning 20% of the votes (that's 20% of people who voted, not 20% of eligible voters) if someone like trump wanted to become pm he'd have to join the tory party, win a local election, and then ingratiate himself with the tories so they allow him to become leader. only then could he start thinking about winning a national election. anyone who could successfully do that would just be another one of the establishment by that point anyway.
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