Antigua and Barbuda may vote to remove King Charles III as its head of state

Re:Antigua and Barbuda may vote to remove King Charles III a... by Veen on Monday September 12, 2022 @10:54AM (#32811254)

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.

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Re:Antigua and Barbuda may vote to remove King Charles III a... by pjc50 on Monday September 12, 2022 @11:09AM (#32811509)

> 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.

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Re:Antigua and Barbuda may vote to remove King Charles III a... by melesian on Monday September 12, 2022 @11:13AM (#32811572)

You seem to have entirely airbrushed from history the loss of 1/3 of the UK's land area scarcely 100 years ago.

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