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Re:The Queen has more power over British law than we thought by knorker on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @05:07AM (#26087386)
"Cute".

Defending state supported inherited power, which has already shown to be corrupted and have abused that power, by saying it's "cute" is like saying pirates murdering and stealing are romantisised to being cute.

Don't confuse watching and enjoying Pirates of the Caribbean with thinking it's a good idea to murder and steal on merchant ships.

Russian oligarchs and mafioso also have their charm, but don't confuse The Godfather part II with a good idea.

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Re:The Queen has more power over British law than we thought by jopsen on Thursday February 11, 2021 @02:15AM (#26099074)
That's a very fair argument :)

And maybe one day it will be time to do away with it.. but it does have a cuteness factor to it.

And politicians are unlikely to want to burn political capital doing away with a popular cultural institution.

So as long as they behave, remain popular, I doubt the monarchy will go away.

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Re:The Queen has more power over British law than we thought by knorker on Thursday February 11, 2021 @03:43AM (#26099513)
As mentioned elsewhere, they have actually not behaved.

And we've not even mentioned yet Prince Andrew's connections to Jeffrey Epstein, and how he's being allowed to get away with it because of his family.

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