Brandane
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Indeed; there's even a dedicated thread about HRH's jubilee over there, inhabited by the usual joyless, anti-establishment, anti everything brigade.
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Indeed; there's even a dedicated thread about HRH's jubilee over there, inhabited by the usual joyless, anti-establishment, anti everything brigade.
Andy in Germany
Guru
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To be fair you can't blame the Windsor family for that: they're descended from a Hanoverian refugee and an Heir of the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.
In fact they're technically more German than a mere migrant like me, so the German Anthem would be more appropriate...
winjim
Smash the cistern
I'm not sure which thread you've been lurking on but the one I've been contributing to is for the last couple of pages mostly jokes about a street party.
Brandane
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To be fair, I don't think I got past page 2, that was more than enough. I like to have a read now and again, just to confirm my opinions!
winjim
Smash the cistern
The jokes are also about colonialism...
Time Waster
Veteran
I think the point is more that the institution of the Crown, monarchy or whatever you want to call it is bigger than one individual. If that individual is unable to do the role because of health, age or whatever then surely the right thing is to retire or abdicate?
The Queen isn't fit to do the job so don't do it! Why is she still hanging on? She's done her service so well but imho she could be tarnishing it at the end by hanging on for some reason I can't fathom.
Give her a break! Let her abdicate and retire. It's not fair to keep her doing it.
The Queen isn't fit to do the job so don't do it! Why is she still hanging on? She's done her service so well but imho she could be tarnishing it at the end by hanging on for some reason I can't fathom.
Give her a break! Let her abdicate and retire. It's not fair to keep her doing it.
Slick
Guru
Its so obviously not just a job though is it.
Andy in Germany
Guru
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- Rottenburg am Neckar
History has shown that abdication was always an option, so remaining in the post is her decision. It may be that she feels the need to take many factors into account, but it remains her decision in the end, as Edward Windsor showed.
Time Waster
Veteran
It is her decision but not made on her own. I doubt it's just her resisting it.
It's a job and a calling through birth, but it's also a constitutional role. If you're not fit for the job, can switch out job for role in this context, then you should let it move on to the next eligible contender. Why would you not do that? It's your own son, doesn't she think he can do it? Why isn't she abdication?
It's a job and a calling through birth, but it's also a constitutional role. If you're not fit for the job, can switch out job for role in this context, then you should let it move on to the next eligible contender. Why would you not do that? It's your own son, doesn't she think he can do it? Why isn't she abdication?
Can I just say that I farking love Scousers?
View: https://twitter.com/dothelefthing/status/1525536495817433089?t=99MSivQfN-A7XsZIqgfuLQ&s=19
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Andy in Germany
Guru
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- Rottenburg am Neckar
winjim
Smash the cistern
Oh I'm dashing straight over to twitter to check out the reaction from the right wing libertarian manbabies.
Obviously I'm married to a Scouser so I can take a vicarious pride in that spectacle.
Because it beats doffing your cap to a compulsory royalist dirge, I guess.
Slick
Guru
Apparently in protest of the incumbent conservative government of the 80's running that part of England into the ground.
ClichéGuevara
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The Queen cannot just retire.
Her view is that she agreed with God to fulfill the role, and therefore abdication isn't an option for her.
She cannot step down until medical experts prove that she is incapable of filling the obligations of the role, and she is currently working over 40 hours a week on her duties even at her age.
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