Re:Antigua and Barbuda may vote to remove King Charles III a...
by kitd on Monday September 12, 2022 @10:59AM
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The meetings are strictly private, no minutes are kept, and there is no one in the room with them. PMs have said it is about the only time they get to talk through issues and ideas with someone knowledgeable and invested, without any fear at all of backlash, or of it being leaked or misrepresented.
So your line of argument is way off.
Re:Antigua and Barbuda may vote to remove King Charles III a...
by n4r9 on Monday September 12, 2022 @11:27AM
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> PMs have said it is about the only time they get to talk through issues and ideas with someone knowledgeable and invested
That's interesting - please could you give any pointers to who said this and when?
Re:Antigua and Barbuda may vote to remove King Charles III a...
by simonh on Monday September 12, 2022 @10:20AM
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> And not once found fault with them.
How on earth could you possibly know that?
Re:Antigua and Barbuda may vote to remove King Charles III a...
by Veen on Monday September 12, 2022 @10:54AM
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Except, of course, that England (and later the UK) has not had anything resembling a revolution since 1688, or 1642 if you don't consider the Glorious Revolution a real revolution. Constitutional monarchy has proven an extremely stable political system.
Re:Antigua and Barbuda may vote to remove King Charles III a...
by pjc50 on Monday September 12, 2022 @11:09AM
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> England (and later the UK) has not had anything resembling a revolution since 1688
England, I'll give you. We can ignore Peterloo. But everyone always forgets Ireland successfully leaving the UK through a combination of armed struggle and political action. Not so much the stabilizing influence of the monarchy as the willingness to shell Dublin or fire randomly into protests in Northern Ireland. And quite a lot of the Twitter anti-monarchism at the moment has been from Kenyans.
That's statistically rather unlikely if she were to actually have a choice. (It's even more unlikely given that group includes Boris Johnson and Liz Truss)
By all means, keep your pomp and circumstance. But don't pretend it has a useful function constraining politics when it's so blatantly obvious it doesn't.