Posted on 02/01/2020 11:46:00 PM PST by lowbuck
Charles is a self centered little prick. He will fill the monarchy just fine.
But it has evolved over centuries to be the ultimate check on tyranny by an elected government in the United Kingdom. Simply abolishing the monarchy would leave a situation where the Prime Minister and Parliament would be far too powerful for the safety of people within the United Kingdom.
Prime Ministers are restrained by the fact that the Monarch can and will intervene if ever forced to. And for that reason, they haven't gone far enough to make that happen - at least not in the UK.
They have in Australia - twice in the twentieth century, the Monarch's representative had to step in to restrain socialist governments that attempted to act in a tyrannical fashion - and the situations were resolved quickly and peacefully. This isn't just hypothetical - we've seen it happen.
I am not saying the Monarchy could never be abolished in the United Kingdom - but it would have to be done in a way that replaced the balance of powers that includes it. And that's not a trivial matter. The Monarchy does serve an important and necessary constitutional purpose.
Now the US needs to leave the UN.
JoMa
Britain has been a communist country since the Peterloo Massacre.
This monarchy’s dissolute pedigree is as trustworthy as the Saudi one.
Say no more.
To me the most important role of the queen is that she is the honorary leader of the whole Anglosphere.
Let me emphasize this. A British friend of mine pointed out that the British legal system is incompatible with continental European legal views. It is my contention that the single greatest human institution created in Britain is the common law, which they exported to all of their colonies. That legal system gave birth to the US and the US Constitution, which is today by its best adherents still interpreted in the context of the common law under which its authors were well-versed.
The European standards are things like the Napoleonic Code and Roman Dutch law. Individual rights as granted by god and retained by the individual, property rights, presumed innocence etc. are concepts foreign to that scheme. As we replace the common law with statutory code and regulatory code enforced by bureaucracies we facing the same chafing as the Brits are. It's the nomenklatura dressed up as socialists or vice versa who are pushing this on to world.
The enemy is Brussels, or a faceless administrative law judge in the basement of the EPA or the old Soviet Kremlin who got that habit from Tsarist Russia. It's always the same - it's the unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats around the world who think they can tell the rest of us how to live.
In case you haven’t noticed, taxation with representation is not so wonderful.
I’ve heard it suggested that Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand may enter into a free trade agreement. I’d be more than happy for America to join as well. The Anglosphere should be able to cooperate in trade as we do in intelligence gathering and Defense.
The EU has insulated itself from the cleansing action of natural selection, with the result being predictable.
Thanks. Everyone should watch that. The unaccountable Eurotrash president of the parliament cut off Farage’s microphone and berated him for breaking the rules by waiving the British flag and told him to take his flags with him.
Farag responds that there is nothing more to say. It’s over. It’s done. We’re gone.
Now if our RINOs could only get up the chutzpah to stand up to tyrannical bullies who actually have no power to do what they do.
The only downside it that it may make Boris Johnson’s relations with the EU re trade, etc, more difficult in the medium term; but I’m still glad he did it. I’m sure they resent his trying to encourage other nations to leave. I hope Italy leaves — if ever there was a country full of artisans and tourist spots who could survive on its own, it is Italy. And, might I add, they have plenty of home-grown grifters who will gladly remove whatever cash they are now paying as dues to EU.
“Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand may enter into a free trade agreement.”
ANZ and the UK have entered into a trade agreement, but it won’t be a free trade yet (British lamb farmers don’t want it)
It is money, but is not that critical for either the UK or ANZ - both do more business with their neighbors than with people far away.
Canada is in NAFTA and isn’t going to enter into a free trade agreement with the UK
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