Abolish the monarchy!

PostRe: Abolish the monarchy! by **site23** » Thu May 04, 2023 5:28 pm

I'd rather watch a colonoscopy.

EDIT: This was supposed to be in the "will you be watching?" thread but I'm not moving it. It can go here now. :slol:

Will the colonoscopy livestream link be posted nearer the time, or is there one we can connect to now to check our access etc?

PostRe: Abolish the monarchy! by **Knoyleo** » Thu May 04, 2023 6:38 pm

Will Diana make a shock appearance?

PostRe: Abolish the monarchy! by **site23** » Thu May 04, 2023 6:38 pm

Oblomov Boblomov wrote:Will the colonoscopy livestream link be posted nearer the time, or is there one we can connect to now to check our access etc?

Hi Oblomov,

You'll have to use your SSO to sign into Zoom and it should appear on your calendar.

Best,

PostRe: Abolish the monarchy! by **jimbojango** » Thu May 04, 2023 8:08 pm

Knoyleo wrote:Will Diana make a shock appearance?

She did like a dark tunnel.

PostRe: Abolish the monarchy! by **Photek** » Thu May 04, 2023 8:51 pm

Vermilion wrote:
Photek wrote:Yeah the gaffs and Castle's will bring tourists in, possible more if they can walk about inside these places...

I walk about inside the places sometimes, they're nice.

Mind you, unlike Ireland, none of our castles feature a stone you can snog.

Cork doesn’t count! You can have Cork back! :lol:

PostRe: Abolish the monarchy! by **Qikz** » Thu May 04, 2023 8:56 pm

site23 wrote:
Oblomov Boblomov wrote:Will the colonoscopy livestream link be posted nearer the time, or is there one we can connect to now to check our access etc?

Hi Oblomov,

You'll have to use your SSO to sign into Zoom and it should appear on your calendar.

Best,

YOU'VE REPLIED TO ALL AGAIN. PLEASE FOR THE LAST TIME STOP HITTING REPLY ALL. :evil:

Qikz wrote:
site23 wrote:
Oblomov Boblomov wrote:Will the colonoscopy livestream link be posted nearer the time, or is there one we can connect to now to check our access etc?

Hi Oblomov,

You'll have to use your SSO to sign into Zoom and it should appear on your calendar.

Best,

YOU'VE REPLIED TO ALL AGAIN. PLEASE FOR THE LAST TIME STOP HITTING REPLY ALL.

I'd like to commend Site for his endeavour to spread awareness of the spreading of the bum cheeks.

StayDead, have you got a quick minute for a chat?

Warm Rugger

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PostRe: Abolish the monarchy! by **Qikz** » Thu May 04, 2023 9:52 pm

twitter.com/TimesRadio/status/1654150771103920130

LMAO

PostRe: Abolish the monarchy! by **Moggy** » Thu May 04, 2023 9:54 pm

Qikz wrote:

twitter.com/TimesRadio/status/1654150771103920130

LMAO

"I prefer a nonce to a race traitor"

PostRe: Abolish the monarchy! by **Tomous** » Thu May 04, 2023 10:15 pm

Those people are insane, what the strawberry float is wrong with them :fp:

I used to be anti-monarchy when I was in college I'm kind of neutral now. I suppose I lean slightly to keeping the monarchy for a few reasons (the reasons for getting rid are well known so I won't recount them, but I understand and agree with them). However my reasons are as follows:

1. It's pretty much worked these last 70 years. Political neutrality is absolutely key.

2. The Queen very rarely had any meaningful input on policy. She wasn't perfect but her record is better than the overwhelming vast majority of elected politicians. I think even the King has a higher approval rating than most elected politicians around the world (Moggy to debunk?), and that's a miracle given its Charles.

3. I kind of like the tradition. We kind of set our measurement scale of history on who was on the throne etc.

It's not the strongest of reasons, hence why I'd consider myself neutral.

I think that to be convinced a change was good, I'd like to see what an elected head of state could actually improve, and if they should be politically powerful. It wouldn't be all happy days like republicans think. The likelihood is, we would end up with a President Blair or worse, a President Johnson. That alone would make me really reluctant to want to abolish the monarchy.

You have to think about who the people are who are likely to get elected. It won't be Jess Phillips or Dennis Skinner. It's going to be a Blair, Johnson, Mogg or any number of wealthy undesirables that won't be politically neutral (publicly).

I don't buy any of the soft power nonsense monarchists spout. It doesn't exist. But there is a bit of a unique lure with having a monarch on the throne. It shouldn't work, but somehow it has managed it. A neutral monarch can probably be useful on the lame scale, such as a way to cool relations with Europe after we strawberry floated everything up with Brexit.

I do feel Charles or William will be the last monarch. I think inevitably it will end. I just hope I'm not around to see whoever becomes president because it won't be anyone good. I think I'd just rather have a powerless head of state who keeps their mouth shut and tries to keep their nose clean. Charles as Prince was strawberry floating crap but he's been pretty quiet since he ascended. I support his idea of slimming the monarchy. Only the direct heir and their kids should have titles at the very most.

I think an elected head of state would be inevitably right wing and try to exert any power they can and try to court publicity for re-election. I think I'd rather have a monarch who has to try and keep quiet and largely out of scandal to prevent their house of cards from collapsing.

PostRe: Abolish the monarchy! by **Victor Mildew** » Thu May 04, 2023 10:39 pm

jimbojango wrote:
Knoyleo wrote:Will Diana make a shock appearance?

She did like a dark tunnel.

PostRe: Abolish the monarchy! by **Qikz** » Thu May 04, 2023 10:51 pm

What about Prince Harry coming?

PostRe: Abolish the monarchy! by **Moggy** » Thu May 04, 2023 10:54 pm

captain red dog wrote:(Moggy to debunk?),

PostRe: Abolish the monarchy! by **OrangeRKN** » Thu May 04, 2023 11:05 pm

captain red dog wrote:You have to think about who the people are who are likely to get elected. It won't be Jess Phillips or Dennis Skinner. It's going to be a Blair, Johnson, Mogg or any number of wealthy undesirables that won't be politically neutral (publicly).

I'd vote for Prince Harry

PostRe: Abolish the monarchy! by **Victor Mildew** » Thu May 04, 2023 11:14 pm

OrangeRKN wrote:
captain red dog wrote:You have to think about who the people are who are likely to get elected. It won't be Jess Phillips or Dennis Skinner. It's going to be a Blair, Johnson, Mogg or any number of wealthy undesirables that won't be politically neutral (publicly).

I'd vote for Prince Harry

Go ahead, throw your vote away!

PostRe: Abolish the monarchy! by **Hypes** » Fri May 05, 2023 7:30 am

captain red dog wrote:The likelihood is, we would end up with a President Blair or worse, a President Johnson. That alone would make me really reluctant to want to abolish the monarchy.

This arguement is always bandied about and is garbage. Equally with royalty we've had terrible Kings and Queens. You could get a King Andrew or infant King George.
An elected head of state would be largely ceremonial like in many other countries such as Ireland's

PostRe: Abolish the monarchy! by **Skarjo** » Fri May 05, 2023 7:38 am

Moggy wrote:
Qikz wrote:

twitter.com/TimesRadio/status/1654150771103920130

LMAO

"I prefer a nonce to a race traitor"

PostRe: Abolish the monarchy! by **Garth** » Fri May 05, 2023 8:19 am

Hypes wrote:
captain red dog wrote:The likelihood is, we would end up with a President Blair or worse, a President Johnson. That alone would make me really reluctant to want to abolish the monarchy.

This arguement is always bandied about and is garbage. Equally with royalty we've had terrible Kings and Queens. You could get a King Andrew or infant King George.
An elected head of state would be largely ceremonial like in many other countries such as Ireland's

This. I'd still rather have an elected head of state the public voted for but I didn't, versus a head of state no-one voted for. At least they could be voted out or have a term limit, and once they're gone the job wouldn't be automatically handed to their spawn.

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