(April 30, 2011 at 4:56 am)downbeatplumb Wrote: I dont resent the royals just the fact that I pay for their upkeep, food and lodgings when they are some of he richest people on the planet.
I don't resent or even care about the Brits having a Royal family. I think it's quaint.
BUT, I resent the FUCK out of QE2 being Queen of Australia and have since 1975.
For those of you not familiar; that was the year the Queen's APPOINTED representative, dismissed parliament, and with it,the elected government.I was livid at the time, and have never forgotten.
Quote:The 1975 Australian constitutional crisis (sometimes called "the Dismissal") has been described as the greatest political crisis and constitutional crisis in Australia's history. It culminated on 11 November 1975 with the removal of the Prime Minister, Gough Whitlam of the Australian Labor Party (ALP), by Governor-General Sir John Kerr. Kerr then appointed the Leader of the Opposition Malcolm Fraser as caretaker Prime Minister.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Austra...nal_crisis
