(July 23, 2013 at 10:11 am)Stimbo Wrote: 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.Well that technically not accurate, The Queen can Delay a law but can only for a period of time before parliament says, screw you were doing it anyway.
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.
BTW I am a British Republican.
"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful" - Edward Gibbon (Offen misattributed to Lucius Annaeus Seneca or Seneca the Younger) (Thanks to apophenia for the correction)
'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
'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
