• Aatube
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    451 month ago

    Kinda bad but really funny headline. He’s calling for Parliament to be dissolved and new general elections to be held, which the monarch can do since 2022 as was the case before 2011. But the headline does have merit, as in constitutional monarchies, everything the monarch does should (pronounced “must”) first be advised by democratic functions—in this case, the prime minister. And He probably will get another English Civil War if He dissolves parliament without the PM’s advice.

    • FaceDeer
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      331 month ago

      It probably wouldn’t be much of a “civil war”, pretty much everyone would just say “that’s nice Charles” and then go pass a law explicitly removing that ability.

    • @Z3k3
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      1 month ago

      And He probably will get another English Civil War if He dissolves parliament without the PM’s advice.

      Rest of the UK just going to sit and watch?

      • Logi
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        131 month ago

        Watch some English people going at each other? Probably. Buy popcorn shares.

      • @[email protected]
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        81 month ago

        My guess is, Scotland would leave that sinking ship, become a sovereign nation, and join the EU.

        • @Z3k3
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          21 month ago

          We tried that. There’s no apatite for udi

      • Aatube
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        31 month ago

        We gotta maintain the canonical continuity. With respecting historical precedent by the virtue of the common law system, Ireland shall free herself from the retcon and reestablish against discontinuity. Charles? Check. Fighting for democracy? Check. Scotland and Ireland as they should be, independent and without the EU’s EWsgusting meddling? Check. ¡Viva la revolución