Posted on 04/16/2011 8:21:29 PM PDT by TheDingoAteMyBaby
LONDON - Britain's government has begun the process of reviewing the ancient, discriminatory rules of royal succession, so that if Prince William and Kate Middleton's first child is a girl she would eventually become queen.
The current rule that puts boys ahead of their sisters "would strike most people as a little old-fashioned," Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg said Saturday.
It is just two weeks until the prince and Middleton get married at London's Westminster Abbey, and Clegg said many people may agree that the rules should be changed so that if the couple's first child were a girl, she would eventually inherit the throne — even if she had a younger brother.
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As long as they have laws preventing Catholics from sitting on the throne, I really don’t give a cr_p about England or the people there.
They should end their occupation of Northern Ireland as well; the “colonial era” has been over for decades.
Go watch the queen give her next commands to the Brit Parliament when it convenes every year, disgraceful. I love the Brits, but the royals are an embarrassing blight that should be ceremonial only.
Did I mention the House of Lords?
I like Leslie Nielsen in one of the “Naked Gun” movies, explaining the role of the police department in protecting the British queen during her upcoming visit: “For no matter how silly the idea of having a queen may seem to us...”
Regardless of my own feelings on Monarchy, I have to raise issue with some of your points. At the State Opening of Parliament, the Queen does not give ‘her next commands’, in fact she outlines the government’s agenda for the coming parliamentary session.
The speech is entirely drawn up by the govt. and approved by the cabinet.
She has no real power, Parliament is independent of the monarchy, as symbolised by ‘Black Rod’ at the opening ceremony, who, as Her Majesty’s representative, has the door slammed in his face!
Why? You operate a hereditary allocation of wealth system in the US. You die, your earthly goods and chattels pass to your blood relatives. It’s the same principle.
Should have been done some time ago. Needs to be done in the next few months. What happens if Kate and Will have a baby daughter?
The throne would go to the next oldest male descendant of Charles, ie Harry. And then it would go to his descendants.
Northern Ireland is not occupied. Unless you think that Palestine is "occupied" by the Israelis. It is British because the majority of people there want it to be. When that is no longer the case, sayonara bogland.
The queen doesn't give any commands to the Brit Parliment. That speech she reads is written by the government, not her.
The hereditary principle has been abolished in the House of Lords. Has been for years.
Anyone recall the actor on Saturday Night Live (70s or early 80s) who portrayed Prince Charles selling a book called “How to Pick Up Girls”? It was pretty funny: “I’m not particularly bright, I’m dangerously inbred...”
Dana Carvey?
I know it was a British actor/comedian, but I can’t recall his name. I want to say it was one of the Monty Python members.
It seems like something Eric Idle would do. But, Dana Carvey did do some Prince Charles skits on SNL in the 1990’s.
“Northern Ireland is not occupied.”
It very obviously is, and I won’t bite at your attempt to intertwine it with non-related matters that can be sorted out by those effected. Demographics will sort it out eventually; Britain doesn’t want it anymore anyway (as it transformed from as industrial base to a population on the dole), but rather maintains a presence at the behest of the Protestant minority they transplanted there centuries ago to displace the native population.
I dont know what all this nonsense about "intertwined with non-related matters is" - unless you think that the will of the people is unimportant. Interesting concept to adhere to.
I think that’s the best thing. Queen Elizabeth II should be the last reigning Monarch of England.
They are a plurality, not a majority, and Roman Catholics are far and away the largest religious group there. I think the will of the people is very important, though the US is a republic, not a democracy.
The US may be a republic, but it still operates on democratic principles, so the point stands. It is, is it not, "government of the people, by the people, for the people"?
Not your decision to make.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/democracylive/hi/house_of_lords/newsid_8364000/8364950.stm
Listen to it. In every instance the queen states "my government". As if a government of free people were just so much property.
We do not have inherited power, we have inherited wealth. Wealth that is earned, fairly or not, but it is earned. Any power that is derived from that wealth is always subject to the consent of our free people.
The queen and the royals, by accident of birth, claim dominance over the Brit Parliament and Brit people. Free Irishmen never put up with it and neither will I. My ancestors paid in blood for every freedom we have and I would never soil their sacrifice with any even symbolic nod towards any king or queen or royals of any kind.
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