Monarchy hands power to bureaucrats II

Public Finance has an article on Britain's globetrotting bureaucrats, who are currently creating the rules for what to do if the upcoming general election results in a hung parliament:

....there was a need for "as much clarity as possible" about such a scenario. He said he would be visiting New Zealand to carry out research into its minority government.

Luckily in New Zealand we've clarified the rules around government formation. We've had to, because of MMP (despite the doomsday predictions of some that MMP would lead to greater involvement by the Governor-General in the political process, and the politicisation of their office).

However, we still labour under the myth that Prime Ministers and Cabinets hold office at the discretion of the monarch. Both Britain and New Zealand ought to codify the reality (which has existed since at least Queen Victoria's reign) that governments are appointed and dismissed by parliament, as an assembly of the elected representatives of New Zealand citizens. It's not hard to do - thankfully the country that we copied MMP off, Germany, does it very well with "constructive votes of no-confidence".