re: #253 SixDegrees

I’ve wondered aloud here on LGF during the election campaing last year why the GOP candidates did not have a list of candidates for their major cabinet posts. Here, these are obviously the members of the shadow cabinet. The advantage of such a system is that they get briefed by the various departments - and about a year from an election, they get the full briefing, the same as the government ministers have.
Thus they are known to the electorate (from the various debates in aprliament) - and there is virtually no transition period.

If, for example, Gordon Brown were to lose the election next Thursday - he’d have to hand in his resignation to the Queen on Friday morning and leave 10 Downing street lock stock and barrel immediately after.
Dave Cameron, after receiving his commission from the Queen an hour or so later, would move into 10 Downing Street that same evening.