The monarch du jour has the power to dissolve Parliament and refuse to sign laws into statute. Beyond that, I think the only power any of them have is to distract attention from the real news stories and shift papers.
To borrow a phrase from my Dad; if the entire Royal family disappeared tomorrow, nobody would notice, though there might be more money in the public coffers. The world would keep on turning. If all the binmen vanished tomorrow, we'd all be up to our ears in shit by Friday.
To borrow a phrase from my Dad; if the entire Royal family disappeared tomorrow, nobody would notice, though there might be more money in the public coffers. The world would keep on turning. If all the binmen vanished tomorrow, we'd all be up to our ears in shit by Friday.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
