To: BlackRazor
"I didn't realize the Queen had any say in this."
The Queen actually has one hell of a lot of power. It is just traditional that she does not exercise that power.
She is Commander in Chief of the military forces and the civil government answers to her. She has the power to dissolve the government and call for elections and she can simply fire the Prime Minister if she so desires.
38 posted on
02/22/2005 1:24:19 PM PST by
PeterFinn
(Why is it that people who know the least know it the loudest?)
To: PeterFinn
She has the power to dissolve the government and call for elections and she can simply fire the Prime Minister if she so desires. She needs to start doing this more often.
60 posted on
02/22/2005 1:31:23 PM PST by
Centurion2000
(Nations do not survive by setting examples for others. Nations survive by making examples of others)
To: PeterFinn
She is Commander in Chief of the military forces and the civil government answers to her. She has the power to dissolve the government and call for elections and she can simply fire the Prime Minister if she so desires. At the same time, she cannot decide who is to be her maid. That was fought out a few decades ago.
111 posted on
02/22/2005 1:51:25 PM PST by
lepton
("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
To: PeterFinn
The Queen actually has one hell of a lot of power. It is just traditional that she does not exercise that power.
Especially when it comes to raising her children!
150 posted on
02/22/2005 2:30:13 PM PST by
Don Corleone
(Leave the gun..take the cannoli)
To: PeterFinn
She fired the prime minister of Australia about 20 years ago...a guy named Whitlam I think.
To: PeterFinn
"She is Commander in Chief of the military forces and the civil government answers to her. She has the power to dissolve the government and call for elections and she can simply fire the Prime Minister if she so desires" Wow...when Arnie hears this he will be righteously peeved
213 posted on
02/22/2005 5:45:23 PM PST by
spokeshave
(Strategery + Schardenfreude = Stratenschardenfreudery)
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