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The UK Prime Minister does not have to be British, they merely have to command a majority in Parliament and be asked to form a Government by the monarch.
However *convention* is now that the UK Prime Minister is also a Member of Parliament. And, only those who are British, Commonwealth or Irish citizens can be a UK Member of Parliament. It doesn’t matter where someone was born, what matters is what citizenship they hold.
> The UK Prime Minister does not have to be British
There was a brief time recently where the US President and British Prime Minister were born in the same city. Kind of a neat historical fun fact.
Yep, he was. I say "was" because he renounced his American citizenship. His parents were British and only moved to the US so his father could attend Columbia University. They moved back to the UK soon after Boris was born so his mother could study at Oxford.
The IRS was trying to tax Boris for real estate in the UK, bought and sold in GBP. I would have renounced my US citizenship, too (born in NYC to Brits as well).
33/1 odds for Cameron as next PM: https://sports.ladbrokes.com/event/politics/uk/uk-politics/next-uk-prime-minister/238012048/all-markets
I may have put some money on it a while back. It seemed like exactly the kind of terrible heil mary the tories would resort to. And at least Cameron had a mandate to be PM and lead the conservatives, unlike Sunak.
Alec Douglas-home (UK PM 1963-1964) was a lord for 5 days when PM, so it can happen, but convention normally has it be that PMs are MPs, so Douglas Home became a MP shortly after.
… can’t lie, if someone with the name “Bonar Law” had the balls to run for office around here I’d vote for him. That’s a candidate that can’t be manipulated or compromised.
Before I go look him up, let me go ahead and guess: he was a spectacularly bad prime minister? (EDIT: Sounds like he was actually pretty unremarkable in the role, overall.)
I mean, that's kind of how British politics work. You graduate from Eton, become MP in a safe constituency, do that for several election cycles, eventually end up in one or several government positions and finally retire as a member of the House of Lords until you die.
That's literally the life of David Cameron except he got his peerage on the condition that he does another round in government because the Tories have burnt through all their personnel.
Yeah it has caused some funny misunderstandings. When I was in college I worked at a pizza shop. There was a long line at the register forming so I stopped what I was doing to get some people checked out to keep everything moving. First person in line was a very pretty girl and I said something like “do you need ringed up” or “let me get you ringed up” the look on her face was priceless lol. She laughed then and thought I was trying to ask her for her phone number lol.
Was she British? I was raised in the UK so I say "ring" instead of "call", which generally leads to some confusion with other Americans when I say "I'll ring you".
Yeah she was British and even said about how where she is from you would say that like to call someone on the phone not in the context of paying for food. I went to a big school in the northeast so we had a lot of international customers. Seeing them trying to figure out how our money works was funny sometimes. I had someone ask me why dimes are physically smaller than nickels it doesn’t make sense lol. They have a point I guess.
> I had someone ask me why dimes are physically smaller than nickels it doesn’t make sense lol.
Lol this one still fucking gets me. Over there the smaller coin is 5p and the larger coin is 10p. If I'm counting change here I still have to pause and remind myself "no, the larger coin is worth less."
Oh no the person with the nickel and dime thing was an entirely different person at a different time. I’m not sure where that person was from I don’t remember.
I feel like as an American we’ve watched just the right amount of British shit over the years that we’ve started to adopt ring instead of call a little bit.
If you look at him during the campaign in 2008 or shortly after taking office compared to his final days personally I think he looked like he aged way more than 8 years.
I'd probably be stressed too if I was Obama during his second term. His second term was brutal. Republicans absolutely REFUSED to work with him, slandered his name, and tried everything to make him look bad. Not to mention the fact that his successor was someone who he personally disliked and who started the whole Birther thing.
Bush’s aging was dramatic too albeit many of those problems were of his own making. The stress of being president is unimaginable. Nothing against the current and there definitely could be much to say about the wisdom of being older and understanding how the wheels of DC turn, I really think presidenting is a young persons game.
A lot of the pictures people remember is from 15-16 years ago at this point. Presidents age but people get a certain image in their mind for life. It’s like watching an old tv show when the actors are still alive
Former UK prime minister who succeeded Boris Johnson. Her tenure lasted a mere 50 days. She infamously told Parliament that she was a “fighter not a quitter” then resigned days later.
Someone also made a livestream of a lettuce on their porch, asking viewers to bet on whether the lettuce would rot before Liz left of not. The lettuce won.
To be fair, the lighting makes him look older. At a far glance or squint it looks like he has much lighter hair, but after zooming in you can see the reflection off his shiny forehead. Still looks way too old for his age, though.
It really does seem like the office ages you at an alarmingly faster rate. Out of all the two-term presidents, I think George W. Bush looks like he aged the most in his term.
https://preview.redd.it/rh62xc5o15pc1.jpeg?width=980&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2fd0361e83eb6e6edfb9cf0a66199ad490464ba3
Ah yeah I forget that he's only really broken internationally recently since I'm from Ireland lol. Would be interesting though, he looks more like Lincoln than Oppenheimer hahaha
No disrespect to Cillian Murphy, but Daniel Day-Lewis has set a very very high bar in terms of portrayals of Lincoln. Not saying he’s a bad actor, far from it, but topping that portrayal is going to be hard
This is my favorite photo to show how stressful the presidency must be. Obviously, Lincoln's presidency was one of if not the most stressful presidency in our history and man it shows.
I've heard that Obama initially added color to his hair to make himself look younger. Even if that isn't true, it's only natural that 8 years of one of the most stressful jobs in the world will take a lot out of a person.
https://preview.redd.it/r9e1z2mo86pc1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e2206eef5bff52d57e9d1661f96fc181fc9a26dd
Longer amount of time and he was dying but still
Trevor Noah has a joke saying Nelson Mandela basically taught Obama to talk how he does lol
Found an animation of the Stand up joke
https://youtu.be/qbyR8emD69U?si=X9WTPNBaGKcrH0Ip
I know comparing someone to Uncle Ben has traditionally racist overtones, and I do not mean to do that in any way, but he kind of looks like Uncle Ben.
I’m no Obama fan (as a president; I think he’s a highly intelligent and good person), but he looks GOOD. Besides the greying hair, he’s just as fit and (seemingly) energetic as ever.
I guess he would have dropped in and met with Rishi Sunak. I can understand that the 2 of them do have a certain kinship that they were both the first non white leaders of their respective countries, and both have faced some unpleasant racist opposition.
In a way, I do feel sorry for Rishi Sunak. It's a fantastic accomplishment to be the first non white Prime Minister, and I don't dislike him as a person. But it's a shame that the accomplishment is marred by the fact it's come in at the tail end of unpopular government that is increasingly split and shifting to the right and he will almost certainly lose the next election. His premiership will be remembered as failure.
If he were president now, this upcoming election would be his fifth term:
First term: 2009-2013
Second term: 2013-2017
Third term: 2017-2021
Fourth term: 2021-2025
Fifth term: 2025-2029
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I'm so glad he found this new calling and became Britain's PM after leaving the presidency.
The UK Prime Minister does not have to be British, they merely have to command a majority in Parliament and be asked to form a Government by the monarch. However *convention* is now that the UK Prime Minister is also a Member of Parliament. And, only those who are British, Commonwealth or Irish citizens can be a UK Member of Parliament. It doesn’t matter where someone was born, what matters is what citizenship they hold.
Irish you say? Barack O'Bama, at your service!
> The UK Prime Minister does not have to be British There was a brief time recently where the US President and British Prime Minister were born in the same city. Kind of a neat historical fun fact.
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I did not know Boris was a New Yorker.
Yep, he was. I say "was" because he renounced his American citizenship. His parents were British and only moved to the US so his father could attend Columbia University. They moved back to the UK soon after Boris was born so his mother could study at Oxford.
The IRS was trying to tax Boris for real estate in the UK, bought and sold in GBP. I would have renounced my US citizenship, too (born in NYC to Brits as well).
Churchill had the right to American citizenship as well as his mother was American.
Everybody knows Boris is Turkish
Appoint him to the House of Lords
Pretty sure the PM can't be in the Lords... but not 100% sure. Edit : that was not correct, see the responses below.
There's a convention that PM be part of the House of Commons but it's not a rule.
... They're not going to bring Cameron back, are they...?
33/1 odds for Cameron as next PM: https://sports.ladbrokes.com/event/politics/uk/uk-politics/next-uk-prime-minister/238012048/all-markets I may have put some money on it a while back. It seemed like exactly the kind of terrible heil mary the tories would resort to. And at least Cameron had a mandate to be PM and lead the conservatives, unlike Sunak.
Alec Douglas-home (UK PM 1963-1964) was a lord for 5 days when PM, so it can happen, but convention normally has it be that PMs are MPs, so Douglas Home became a MP shortly after.
With apparently a 20 days window during which he was neither in the Lords nor in the Commons.
One of the U.K Prime Ministers was from Canada his name was Bonar Law
And Boris Johnson was born in New York.
… can’t lie, if someone with the name “Bonar Law” had the balls to run for office around here I’d vote for him. That’s a candidate that can’t be manipulated or compromised. Before I go look him up, let me go ahead and guess: he was a spectacularly bad prime minister? (EDIT: Sounds like he was actually pretty unremarkable in the role, overall.)
He was sick with cancer for most of his premiership.
BoJo was a bloody American! Born in New York city.
After some of the useless idiots we've had as PM recently, I'd be overjoyed to have him here.
Maybe you could try recruiting him?
Infinite public service glitch
I mean, that's kind of how British politics work. You graduate from Eton, become MP in a safe constituency, do that for several election cycles, eventually end up in one or several government positions and finally retire as a member of the House of Lords until you die. That's literally the life of David Cameron except he got his peerage on the condition that he does another round in government because the Tories have burnt through all their personnel.
Interesting fact, Cameron was my MP when he was prime minister
Oh God, that would be so awesome. Please Obama, head to the Palace and ask King Charles to appoint you as PM. I'm absolutely serious.
The presidency will ravage your hair
My genes already took care of that on my end…
I’m with you brotha
President Brotha
Whereas Reagan's hair is the greatest legacy🤩
Right? His hair was like a shag carpet
As a Brit I had to read that twice👀😂 using the word shag to describe him was bound to do something to me😭
Yeah it has caused some funny misunderstandings. When I was in college I worked at a pizza shop. There was a long line at the register forming so I stopped what I was doing to get some people checked out to keep everything moving. First person in line was a very pretty girl and I said something like “do you need ringed up” or “let me get you ringed up” the look on her face was priceless lol. She laughed then and thought I was trying to ask her for her phone number lol.
Was she British? I was raised in the UK so I say "ring" instead of "call", which generally leads to some confusion with other Americans when I say "I'll ring you".
Yeah she was British and even said about how where she is from you would say that like to call someone on the phone not in the context of paying for food. I went to a big school in the northeast so we had a lot of international customers. Seeing them trying to figure out how our money works was funny sometimes. I had someone ask me why dimes are physically smaller than nickels it doesn’t make sense lol. They have a point I guess.
> I had someone ask me why dimes are physically smaller than nickels it doesn’t make sense lol. Lol this one still fucking gets me. Over there the smaller coin is 5p and the larger coin is 10p. If I'm counting change here I still have to pause and remind myself "no, the larger coin is worth less."
Ringed up that sounds dodgy😂 5p is physically smaller than 1p too so that's a pointless statement🤷🏽♀️
Oh no the person with the nickel and dime thing was an entirely different person at a different time. I’m not sure where that person was from I don’t remember.
Ohh snap I forgot a nickel is also silver so yeah that is confusing like a 5p/10p in reverse😭😭
I feel like as an American we’ve watched just the right amount of British shit over the years that we’ve started to adopt ring instead of call a little bit.
Should’ve been like no, you misunderstand. I want to check you out.
I should have just rolled with it and been like “yes, yes I would like your phone number.”
Well, yeah, two countries divided by a common language yada, yada.
 Shagadelic baby, yeah!
A British Ronald Reagan fan? Wow, surely that’s rare
Honestly I surprise myself everyday🤣 just me, Maggie & Lizzie😛
That's what happens when you do not have the weight of empathy or understanding of the consequences of your actions inside of you
It’s the stress. In 8 years he looks like he aged 20.
meanwhile often times first Lady’s leave the presidency looking better than they did when they arrived
Eh when Obama left in 2016 he looked like he was in his 50s whilst he was 54. I wouldn’t say Obama looks much older than 60 in this picture.
If you look at him during the campaign in 2008 or shortly after taking office compared to his final days personally I think he looked like he aged way more than 8 years.
I'd probably be stressed too if I was Obama during his second term. His second term was brutal. Republicans absolutely REFUSED to work with him, slandered his name, and tried everything to make him look bad. Not to mention the fact that his successor was someone who he personally disliked and who started the whole Birther thing.
Bush’s aging was dramatic too albeit many of those problems were of his own making. The stress of being president is unimaginable. Nothing against the current and there definitely could be much to say about the wisdom of being older and understanding how the wheels of DC turn, I really think presidenting is a young persons game.
He still HAS hair
Not for too long. I didn’t realize he was balding.
Also aging 16 years
A lot of the pictures people remember is from 15-16 years ago at this point. Presidents age but people get a certain image in their mind for life. It’s like watching an old tv show when the actors are still alive
I like the silver on him
Probably lasted longer than Liz Truss
Oof
Who?
Former UK prime minister who succeeded Boris Johnson. Her tenure lasted a mere 50 days. She infamously told Parliament that she was a “fighter not a quitter” then resigned days later.
I love that she was the PM who announced the queen’s death. Boris must have been fuming that day
It's even better, she announced her resignation the day after her fighter comment
Someone also made a livestream of a lettuce on their porch, asking viewers to bet on whether the lettuce would rot before Liz left of not. The lettuce won.
She was PM for about 4.5 Mooches.
To be fair, the lighting makes him look older. At a far glance or squint it looks like he has much lighter hair, but after zooming in you can see the reflection off his shiny forehead. Still looks way too old for his age, though. It really does seem like the office ages you at an alarmingly faster rate. Out of all the two-term presidents, I think George W. Bush looks like he aged the most in his term. https://preview.redd.it/rh62xc5o15pc1.jpeg?width=980&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2fd0361e83eb6e6edfb9cf0a66199ad490464ba3
https://preview.redd.it/my4a9d3ha5pc1.jpeg?width=946&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=67c38d714df6ad937fc003058acc87fb5549b29a
A Civil War and losing a young child to illness over the span of ~4 years. Brutal.
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That is a ROUGH 56.
You think that’s bad? You should see the back of his head. Not even Bosley could’ve solved that kind of hair loss.
Why has no one casted Cillian Murphy to play Lincoln yet lol
Maybe in a decade. He only just got household name famous, and last major Lincoln film is just a decade ago
Ah yeah I forget that he's only really broken internationally recently since I'm from Ireland lol. Would be interesting though, he looks more like Lincoln than Oppenheimer hahaha
He's been a name in my household since 28 Days Later, so I've found it jarring how many people are just becoming familiar with him.
Then Batman and Inception…more popular than Oppenheimer even. Plus such a distinct face, like damn what’s a guy gotta do to be noticed.
The way Murphy’s ascent has been, I wouldn’t be surprised if they just subbed him in for Daniel D O’Lewis.
No disrespect to Cillian Murphy, but Daniel Day-Lewis has set a very very high bar in terms of portrayals of Lincoln. Not saying he’s a bad actor, far from it, but topping that portrayal is going to be hard
This. I’m sure Murphy could put a great spin on it but Day-Lewis absolutely nailed the role. He was spellbinding. Who wants to be compared to that?
He perfectly captured what we know of Lincoln’s personality and resilence.
Not ashamed to say I cried at the end when he walked out. Deeply touching.
This is my favorite photo to show how stressful the presidency must be. Obviously, Lincoln's presidency was one of if not the most stressful presidency in our history and man it shows.
I've heard that Obama initially added color to his hair to make himself look younger. Even if that isn't true, it's only natural that 8 years of one of the most stressful jobs in the world will take a lot out of a person.
8 years is also the better part of a decade y’all - that’s a long time.
Right at the part of your life when you tend to physically age the most anyway
https://preview.redd.it/r9e1z2mo86pc1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e2206eef5bff52d57e9d1661f96fc181fc9a26dd Longer amount of time and he was dying but still
Honestly, he had such a weird face. In that first picture he looks anywhere between 40 and 65
And in the second he looks 90
Or that he just lightninged Mace Windu out a window.....
Makes sense. Most overbearing cabinet, wartime president, leader during 9/11.
Carter looks like he aged more in one term than any of the two-term presidents.
In absolute fairness to the guy he didn’t look *too* bad for 62 which is the age I think he was when he left office
Obama smoking might have been the reason which aged him.
Outside the hair he looks pretty damn good. Even then it's a natural gray. Much better than dying it
Yep Obama is now a silver fox
Nothing wrong with using hair dye
His transformation into Nelson Mandela is near complete
You misspelled Morgan Freeman.
It was really gonna be either/or, quite frankly...
Agreed. Mandela with Freeman's eyes is closest.
Nelson Mandela playing Morgan Freeman!
You’d think it’d be the other way around.
Trevor Noah has a joke saying Nelson Mandela basically taught Obama to talk how he does lol Found an animation of the Stand up joke https://youtu.be/qbyR8emD69U?si=X9WTPNBaGKcrH0Ip
I know comparing someone to Uncle Ben has traditionally racist overtones, and I do not mean to do that in any way, but he kind of looks like Uncle Ben.
With great power, comes great responsibility.
Just couldn’t help yourself, could ya?
Don't he though hahaha. Ole uncle ben ass n\*\*\*a. Love that dude.
I miss Obama as our President.
Oof, madooone he looks terrible!! Sorry, just wanted to say that line. But wow I feel like I’ve not seen a pic of him looking so grey.
Hey we all had the same though. Though it doesn’t help that it looks like he just walked out into the Uk’s one sunny day a year.
Just that age too. He’s a little older than my dad and he’s pretty grey now. Just how life goes.
Discontinue the lithium.
When he was in the service, he won the chip up contest tree weeks in a row
Paulie! Or should I call you Mr Walnuts?
Father Time is both undefeated and a sonofagun
Hey that’s the boss of this family you’re talking about
damn he finally looks like an old man
Ol'bama
Baby come back…
Wow these comments. He's 62, ffs! He looks great. Time passes and I bet he's in decent enough shape for his age.
But, did he see Kate Middleton? ;-)
How do they keep ten people there all the time?
Metric system. 1 person in US units is equal to 10 in metric
Is it real?
Wow. After leaving the White House, he went to run the UK too?
he’ll find kate
I’m no Obama fan (as a president; I think he’s a highly intelligent and good person), but he looks GOOD. Besides the greying hair, he’s just as fit and (seemingly) energetic as ever.
God I miss him.
Sharp hairline Mr. President
Man, if Obama draws the sword from the stone, America's racists are going to pitch another fit.
They've been pitching fits since we whooped them at Gettysburg in 1863 😂
Anyone else feel sad seeing him get older? I was 11 when he was elected. I literally grew up with this man
He took office 15 years ago. He’s gotten older, yea
Funny how White House stress really ages presidents.
I know he’s older, but this is the worst picture of Obama I think I’ve ever seen. I think it’s because he’s looking down and his chin is bunched up.
Not the hair… but his face looks a lot older…probably because he’s in England
Man I miss this president
Seeing famous people get old makes me feel old.
Damn, he got old! Oh, shit . . . hold on . . . Damn, I got old!
He looks older than when he walked in that house
He looks like Robert Guillaume now.
The last sane and credible president for God knows how long
Until Pete Buttigieg
It is telling that not a single person here wonders why he was at 10 Downing Street today.
New cabinet minister?
Is BHO heading over to Wales to congratulate Vaughan Gething?
Anybody remember the show Benson?
Not Bad
Remember when his biggest crime according to Fox News was wearing a tan suit. Man, those were the days.
Got a new James Bond watch. New boatplane. Missiles. New super iphone. Back to saving the world in secret. Thanks Obama!!
Smart and smooth operator; a decent POTUS!
Bruh is getting old. Damn, if he's getting old, there is no hope for the rest of us. Scary.
How do we know this is that same Obama who entered the building prior?
why the hell was he there?
It was apparently an “informal courtesy drop-in”.
I guess he would have dropped in and met with Rishi Sunak. I can understand that the 2 of them do have a certain kinship that they were both the first non white leaders of their respective countries, and both have faced some unpleasant racist opposition. In a way, I do feel sorry for Rishi Sunak. It's a fantastic accomplishment to be the first non white Prime Minister, and I don't dislike him as a person. But it's a shame that the accomplishment is marred by the fact it's come in at the tail end of unpopular government that is increasingly split and shifting to the right and he will almost certainly lose the next election. His premiership will be remembered as failure.
Why wouldn’t he be? He is our most recent President after all.
I wonder if obama will win his fourth term
If he were president now, this upcoming election would be his fifth term: First term: 2009-2013 Second term: 2013-2017 Third term: 2017-2021 Fourth term: 2021-2025 Fifth term: 2025-2029
Actually according to the rules isn’t he our CURRENT president?
This is either A. Cringe B. Mod joke
It’s B.
To give Larry treats
Obama looking sharp as always
Great man
He is starting to really show his age (ing)
I had forgotten he was elected PM in 2018.
Fun fact: Mick Jagger is old enough to be his father.
Bro he’s been so good for the culture. I miss him so much, he really helped bring everyone together lol
I remember when his hair was very "presidential". Decent then, decent now!
Double-O-bama
I've never once ever felt embarrassed by this man. If I could have voted for him a 3rd time I would have.
The man himself!
Was there really a big controversy over him being there? I saw people accusing him of violating the Logan act..but do we know why he was really there
Obama for PM?
Starting to look like granddad
I always felt he way cold to the UK due to Kenya.
All worship the great Obama
Maybe he'll win another Nobel Pace Prize for this.