RE: Republic in the UK?
April 30, 2012 at 10:27 am
(This post was last modified: April 30, 2012 at 10:49 am by Gooders1002.)
(April 30, 2012 at 10:03 am)Tiberius Wrote: Welcome to the cause. Making them a ceremonial position would be a step in the right direction, but I still think it is unfair to have such positions limited to one family.Well then they would have no power and would probably have to find day jobs (that will be fun for them). But how would we dethrone them?
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'I am driven by two main philosophies:
Know more about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you' - Neil deGrasse Tyson
"Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it." - Mark Twain