All the immediate above plus this:
Our nation is not governed by the monarchy nor by hereditary ennobled gentry, but by common consensus. Thank Oliver Cromwell for that one. That's when our system of government was established, starting off a process which made the royals and their entitled ilk increasingly redundant in actually running the country. Then you have the people who actually carry out Government policy, the Civil Service, which by its nature is independent of party and monarchy.
Our nation is not governed by the monarchy nor by hereditary ennobled gentry, but by common consensus. Thank Oliver Cromwell for that one. That's when our system of government was established, starting off a process which made the royals and their entitled ilk increasingly redundant in actually running the country. Then you have the people who actually carry out Government policy, the Civil Service, which by its nature is independent of party and monarchy.
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.'
