Posted on 06/01/2018 9:44:04 AM PDT by Leaning Right
Good reply. The Monarchy is required to avoid staking out partisan political positions. Americans, of all people should understand that — you had a lot to do with diminishing the Monarch’s political powers (something to do with a ruckus about 250 years ago).
“Mass bloodshed with what? Pointy sticks?”
All the Brits need is an address, a map and a bunch of large trucks, and they can find the necessary tools to bring down the fascist UK government.
List of equipment of the British Army
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_equipment_of_the_British_Army
The British Army isn’t the ‘Royal’ army, it’s just the army, because the modern army is descended from Cromwell’s New Model Army and thus Republican in origin and unlike the Royal Navy and RAF exists at the pleasure of Parliament and the legality of its existence has to be renewed every 5 years because the 1689 Bill of Rights demands that only Parliament may approve the existence of a standing army.
> The British Army isn’t the ‘Royal’ army, it’s just the army... <
Not that I doubted you, but I looked it up and you’re right. Thanks for the info. And that’s one reason I like FR. You can learn a thing or two here.
78 years ago he would have been flying a Spitfire or Hurricane. One of the few doing so much for so many.
Goods analogy, apparently.
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