Terrible Truss [TT] = she was young, ignorant, arrogant and presumptuous saying how a royal family born to rule is a disgrace. I had silly ideas when I was young. Early in adulthood, confronted with reality of barbarians in government and all sorts of things, my ideas changed to more sense. Not enough of course, so I have continued to learn things for decades, at great expense to myself. Figuring out what is sensible and intelligent is a very difficult thing in life, even when trying hard. Unfortunately, she seems not to be learning but continues her ignorance, arrogance and presumptuous self-importance, now in charge to wage big time war to conquer Russia and show that stale pale male Putin that the feminazis rule and he will be fried alive for his defiance, in nuclear explosions if needs be.
Interestingly, her mother was a nuclear disarmament enthusiast back in the day and her mathematician father, who politically disowned her, was left of Labour too [as described by TT].
Apparently she has boasted how the top 4 cabinet positions now have no stale pale males = confirming her as a racist, sexist, ageist, bigoted slut [who had at least one affair, with I forget his name, who was supposed to mentor her in the Conservative party - both married].
She apparently didn't know, but hopefully does now that she's older and possibly a fraction wiser [no guarantee], that the British royal family is not born to rule. They are born to serve, albeit in a well-paid job with lots of baubles of office, yummy food, international travel, butlers and whatnot galore. Even those attractions are not enough to keep them all in the gilded cage.
Queen Elizabeth II became queen because her uncle spat the King's dummy to continue his love of Wallace Simpson, abdicating. Which made Elizabeth's stuttering father the king. But lung cancer put paid to him. So as a young woman she accepted her duty and made good on her promise for her lifetime. Prince Harry has jumped ship too, with his wife finding it a pain in the neck to get the baubles and luxury but have to mind the schedules, wave at the right time, keep her mouth shut and not act as though the royal family is ruling, which they are not contrary to young ignorant bigoted slut TT's ideas.
Looks as though King Charles Spaniel is good for a decade or maybe two. And it also looks as though Prince William is a good candidate to continue life following the expectations of his countrymen. And he has a son who is a promising boy.
In my early ignorant days, I too thought it an odd idea from ancient dangerous violent days of conquering boss-men that a royal family was born to rule. But the Great and Glorious British Empire centuries ago put the kings in their place and developed parliamentary ascendancy, with privy council toffs, and lawyers to argue the cases and issue decisions on law and common law. The royal family is NOT ruling other than in a very vital and hopefully very infrequent case of a split decision and looming civil war in the political divide in which grubby self-dealing politicians wield power for perks, loot, and the fun of bossing people around.
Should push come to shove, Queen Elizabeth II could issue a proclamation "I hereby declare parliament dissolved as nobody has the confidence of parliament. I am hereby and forthwith in charge. The police, army and everybody reports to me. I hereby call for new elections to be held and we [the royal we] will see whether there is somebody whom I might appoint to the job of prime minister to form a government. I have spoken."
Being a politically neutral Queen, with her main interest being in a continued civilized country with orderly political processes rather than pitchforks, pikes, bats and knives, fires and hangings, the public would breathe a sigh of relief and back her. Hopefully, King Charles Spaniel is able to elicit such loyalty and trust from the public when TT loses her sense altogether and goes full megalomaniac.
The test might come as soon as Xmas because it's going to be cold and cash flow in the average bloke's wallet is looking dire. Maybe they think it's worth having a nuclear war with Russia and freezing while they wait for Armageddon to arrive over them, so that Hunter Biden can keep his booze, cocaine, cash, concubines and hedonistic nihilism going while the BigGuy = DementiaJoe10% gets his, and the MAD Americans give megatons of weaponry to Ukraine, and giga$bucks of opm to Zelensky and cash flow cronies, with kickbacks in the $millions to Lindsay Graham, Nancy, Nuland, every man and his dog = the USA has the best politicians money can buy.
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It was a terrible irony that Queen Elizabeth's last official action was to appoint TT, who despised the royal family's constitutional position of protecting the public, to the actual position of power in UK.
In Australia several decades ago, there was such a prime ministerial standoff. The governor general fired the prime minister and elections were held. It was a race to get the palace aka Queen Elizabeth II to issue the right orders. Pretty soon, the electorate picked a new prime minister. No civil war was needed. In 1984, NZ's prime minister Muldoon looked as though he might not give up the reins.
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Australian constitutional crisis here: On 16 October 1975 the Opposition announced that it would not support the passage of Supply unless the Prime Minister agreed to the calling of a new election for the House. Whitlam refused, declaring that it was unconstitutional for the Senate to decide who should hold government.
From July 1974, when the 29th Parliament commenced, to November 1975, 21 bills were regarded as fulfilling the requirements of section 57, having been twice rejected by the Senate. This deadlock between the Government and Opposition continued until 11 November 1975.
On 10 November 1975 Governor-General Sir John Kerr obtained formal advice from the Chief Justice of the High Court, Garfield Barwick, confirming his right to dismiss the Government. On 11 November 1975, the Governor-General sacked Whitlam for refusing to resign or to advise an election after failing to obtain Supply.
Governor-General Kerr immediately commissioned Opposition leader Malcolm Fraser to form a caretaker government to secure Supply pending a general election. Acting on the advice of caretaker Prime Minister Fraser, who did not have majority support in the House, the Governor-General dissolved both Houses of Parliament.
In the ensuing double dissolution election on 13 December 1975 the Coalition, led by Fraser, won a landslide victory, winning majorities in both Houses of Parliament. As Opposition Leader, Whitlam contested the 1977 election and was defeated. He stood down from the ALP leadership and resigned from Parliament in July 1978.
Whitlam and Fraser formed what seemed an unlikely friendship in their later years. |
