Google 'orders in council' & 'royal perogative', particularly wrt Chagos, to see how Queenie can & does trample over democracy & High Court judgements at a whim. -- Krusty www.MuddyStuff.co.uk Off-Road Classifieds '02 MV Senna '03 Tiger 955i '96 Tiger '79 Fantic Hiro 250
I suppose the thought that one bit of air looks very much like another and the poor dears get very confused.
Cab wrote I count my lucky stars every day. If the rules still apply I can still get an Irish passport I think, my paternal Grandmother was a bog trotter.
We've been down this conversation before, haven't we? We worked out that we have an equal percentage of Spiccy genes.
Cab wrote Not that I recall but I wouldn't take that as an indication of veracity. No Spik genes here mate, pure Northern European right down to the last chromosome.
I don't see Queenie doing anything much there, rather I see governments of the time doing dodgy things in the name of the Queen. Something entirely different. -- ogden sv650sk5 (chick wheels) cg125 (dead wheels) zx7r (hasn't even got wheels) buy tat here: http://search.ebay.co.uk/_W0QQsassZdr.daifQQhtZ-1
Queenie has to sign the order. Without her signature it can't happen. So whilst she may not have come up with the idea, she's the only one who can make it happen, & is therefore responsible for it. What makes it worse is that this wasn't even a case of 'national security' or anything so noble - it was purely dumping on a bunch of her own citizens from a great height. And the "government of the time" in this case was the current one, who chose local election day in 2004 to do it, thus trying to ensure it didn't make headline news. -- Krusty www.MuddyStuff.co.uk Off-Road Classifieds '02 MV Senna '03 Tiger 955i '96 Tiger '79 Fantic Hiro 250
Look up the phrase "constitutional monarchy" - sure she could refuse to sign an order presented to her by the Prime Minister but to do so would generate an awful lot of noise and hysteria and probably trigger the downfall of one of the two of them[1]. People in the UK are not 'citizens' - they are subjects. As are members of the Commonwealth. Phil. [1] And I suspect it would be touch and go which one would survive. I suspect the house of Saxe-Coburg^H^HWindsor *might* come out on top but only just..
One can only hope. Both would be good, but either of them would be a good start. -- Krusty www.MuddyStuff.co.uk Off-Road Classifieds '02 MV Senna '03 Tiger 955i '96 Tiger '79 Fantic Hiro 250
Just for the "fun" of it, tell me how many seconds you think a constitutional monarch would remain in position should he/she refuse to sign a document from the parliament?
It's the ground that's at fault, it's all green. Also the sea cheats 'cos it all looks the same from up in the clouds.
Hopefully less than one second, & we'd finally be rid of the bunch of fuckwits. However I can't imagine Blair would survive had she refused in this particular case. -- Krusty www.MuddyStuff.co.uk Off-Road Classifieds '02 MV Senna '03 Tiger 955i '96 Tiger '79 Fantic Hiro 250
We already have. -- Krusty www.MuddyStuff.co.uk Off-Road Classifieds '02 MV Senna '03 Tiger 955i '96 Tiger '79 Fantic Hiro 250
We already have a president just like America's: Tony Blair. How do you know we wouldn't get a president like Ireland's: Douglas Hyde, Erskine Childers and Mary Robinson were reasonably serious intellectuals; France's: Chirac is a crook but, like De Gaulle, he told the Americans where to get off; Czechoslovakia's: Vaclav Havel? Are things really that bad?
Say what you like about Cromwell, but he had a deft touch with the Irish. -- ogden sv650sk5 (chick wheels) cg125 (dead wheels) zx7r (hasn't even got wheels) buy tat here: http://search.ebay.co.uk/_W0QQsassZdr.daifQQhtZ-1
