Entire Queen's household is called to 'highly unusual' emergency meeting at Buckingham Palace tod

a reply to: sapien82

Buckingham Bud?
Palace Pot?
Sovereign Smoke?
Gatehouse Ganja?

# me the brands she could command are endless, yep, I'd support the Queen in such a venture, think of the taxes from that.

Monarchies are the glue that hold nations to-gether, An example is italy, they had a monarchy up till 1945, then went Republican, how many governments per year have they had since?
The Kaiser abdicated, look at the mess that caused, the Romanoff's were shot, Russia did not get any better for the 'working man/woman'
Japan still has its monarchy, its still stable, fairly well off, just a bit too close to subduction zones...
Recently the USA elected a new president, well, we all know what happened next....

a reply to: pikestaff

Why are they necessary if parliament is sovereign?
The Queen has agreed with every #ty act of parliament she's ever signed. Plenty of blood on her hands.

No, turn the palaces into massive grow operations and make a # load more money marketing that.
Zero reasoned democratic argument to support unelected heads of state, and no need for them either.

Any of you watch Charles III on BBC last night?

Really well done and a massive hatchet job on the Duchess of Cambridge.