Re:Antigua and Barbuda may vote to remove King Charles III a...
by defrost on Monday September 12, 2022 @09:55AM
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The notion of some abstraction beyond and devoid of day to day | year to year to year political grubbing has some value.
The US has its Constitution, Canada and Australia (my country) have had the Queen.
The monarchy in many Commonwealth countries is effectively toothless having no actual power (certainly in Australia; following the Queens GG in Australia dismissing the Whitlam government some years ago that last loophole of power was written out) but they serve as some notion of something that binds us and transcends party politics.
I'm not sure whether Australia will stay the course with the monarchy now the Queen has passed, the Republicans here have been a growing force and Charles III doesn't have the respect his mother had.
I certainly have no particular attachment to the UK firm.
The US has its Constitution, Canada and Australia (my country) have had the Queen.
The monarchy in many Commonwealth countries is effectively toothless having no actual power (certainly in Australia; following the Queens GG in Australia dismissing the Whitlam government some years ago that last loophole of power was written out) but they serve as some notion of something that binds us and transcends party politics.
I'm not sure whether Australia will stay the course with the monarchy now the Queen has passed, the Republicans here have been a growing force and Charles III doesn't have the respect his mother had.
I certainly have no particular attachment to the UK firm.