Government starts to regret electing good-for-nothing - time to remove leader (6)
I believe the answer is:
regime
'government' is the definition.
(synonyms)
'starts to regret electing good-for-nothing time to remove leader' is the wordplay.
'starts to' says to take the initial letters.
'electing good-for-nothing' becomes 'eg' (this might be a standard abbreviation I've not previously seen).
'to remove leader' means to remove the first letter.
The initial letter of 'regret' is 'r'.
'time' with its first letter taken away is 'ime'.
'r'+'eg'+'ime'='REGIME'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for regime that I've seen before include "Prescribed course" , "Government, especially an authoritarian one" , "Ruling system" , "Emigre (anag.)" , "Form of rule" .)