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Queen Warning to Brown

IWantPVRIWantPVR Posts: 8,302
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It has been reported that Global has had a warning from our Liz! :eek:
Meanwhile, the Queen has reportedly stepped into the scandal by urging the PM to get his house in order, saying she is worried the outcry could damage Parliament.

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Politics/MPs-Expenses-Labour-MP-Fraser-Kemp-In-Repeat-DVD-Claims-Scandal/Article/200905315283177?lpos=Politics_Carousel_Region_0&lid=ARTICLE_15283177_MPs_Expenses%3A_Labour_MP_Fraser_Kemp_In_Repeat_DVD_Claims_Scandal

Please Liz, listen to us and dissolve this apology for a government. (Does the Queen use DS?)
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    AZZURRI 06AZZURRI 06 Posts: 11,173
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    Jeeez, I thought the UK was a modern democratic country, not tied to the state Church.
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    TequilaTequila Posts: 5,111
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    AZZURRI 06 wrote: »
    Jeeez, I thought the UK was a modern democratic country, not tied to the state Church.

    The UK is no democracy. It's a barely elective dictatorship.

    Not that you'd care much being an Irish republican.
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    GeorgiecatsGeorgiecats Posts: 6,628
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    Well she's right. Parliament has most certainly been damaged by all this.

    They have been shown to be at least downright greedy and at worst, thieving from the taxpayer.

    What is the point in us ever voting again? It's the "I'm alright Jack" attitude and plunder the country for whatever you can. First it was the greedy bankers messing up our banking system (and then being paid bonuses for it) and now greedy MPs claiming to the max.

    SHAME ON YOU.
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    IWantPVRIWantPVR Posts: 8,302
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    Full article:

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mandrake/5335164/The-Queen-is-not-amused-by-MPs-expenses-scandal.html
    It has been suggested by some commentators that the Queen might wish to advise the Prime Minister to call an immediate general election, but the courtier spoken to by Mandrake considers this unlikely
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    AZZURRI 06AZZURRI 06 Posts: 11,173
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    Tequila wrote: »
    The UK is no democracy. It's a barely elective dictatorship.

    Not that you'd care much being an Irish republican.

    I do, seeing as they claim/ed jurisdiction over part of my country...
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    [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 6,741
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    AZZURRI 06 wrote: »
    I do, seeing as they claim/ed jurisdiction over part of my country...

    Its my country too
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    TequilaTequila Posts: 5,111
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    AZZURRI 06 wrote: »
    I do, seeing as they claim/ed jurisdiction over part of my country...

    The majority living in that part of the country want to stay within the UK.

    I thought the constitutional settlement was effectively 'parked' over there? Unfortunately there will always be some who just won't let it lie.

    The southerners don't want you and most mainlanders would like you to disappear. Listening to the RTÉ radio I get the impression that they like to keep your poisonous view of how Ireland should be as far away as they can. SF performs poorly in the south after all.
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    [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 1,652
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    This is a very damaging leak, this will just add to the questions around Gordon Brown's leadership on this issue & others (gurkas.....)

    Great Britain is a ship without a captain.
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    [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 16,275
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    She's just worried her benefits giro will be stopped.
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    TequilaTequila Posts: 5,111
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    whip wrote: »
    She's just worried her benefits giro will be stopped.

    Get your own fetid house in order before you start criticising other people's.
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    phylo_roadkingphylo_roadking Posts: 21,339
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    She doesn't have any weight to throw behind that nowadays. The last time it was even hinted at, that the Monarch could dissolve a parliament if a settlement on something wasn't reached, was IIRC under her father George IV....nearly six decades ago. She doesn't have any legal authority now to do anything.

    Unfortunately...
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    jim_ukjim_uk Posts: 13,280
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    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1183468/The-Queen-tells-Brown-grave-concern-MPs-expenses.html

    More on it.
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    [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 16,275
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    Tequila wrote: »
    Get your own fetid house in order before you start criticising other people's.
    You've seen my house?
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    LostFoolLostFool Posts: 90,662
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    phylo_roadking wrote: »
    She doesn't have any weight to throw behind that nowadays. The last time it was even hinted at, that the Monarch could dissolve a parliament if a settlement on something wasn't reached, was IIRC under her father George IV....nearly six decades ago. She doesn't have any legal authority now to do anything.

    Unfortunately...

    No legal power (though it would be interesting to see her try) but she has the constitutional right "to be consulted, to encourage and to warn". She has more experience of politics and politicians than the whole government combined so Brown would be well advised to listen to her.
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    RussellIanRussellIan Posts: 12,034
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    Pity it isn't like the old days when queens could cut people's heads off and stuff.
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    TequilaTequila Posts: 5,111
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    whip wrote: »
    You've seen my house?

    Same owd story eh? We won't promote our party (because we have nothing positive to promote to the public) so we'll simply smear and slag off anyone who questions us. The Righteous.
    LostFool wrote: »
    No legal power (though it would be interesting to see her try) but she has the constitutional right "to be consulted, to encourage and to warn". She has more experience of politics and politicians than the whole government combined so Brown would be well advised to listen to her.

    Brown? Listen to anyone? Cyclops believes in his own hubris way too much to consider listening to anyone as lowly as the Queen! You silly boy. Don't you all know it started in America? ;)
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    phylo_roadkingphylo_roadking Posts: 21,339
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    She has more experience of politics and politicians than the whole government combined so Brown would be well advised to listen to her.

    ...and THEN if the bugger is returned with a majority after the next election...the WHOLE thing, blown up as a Constitutional Crisis caused by the "Queen's Meddling"...results in a nice little vote for a Republic or at the very least an even further reduction of the Monarch's role...:eek:

    A Labour government has the Queen - or ANY Monarch - over a barrel. NOW we don't even have the "traditional" House of Lords to protect the institution should it ever need it ;) Not with it being "reformed" and padded with Life Peers by the Labour government...
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    TequilaTequila Posts: 5,111
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    RussellIan wrote: »
    Pity it isn't like the old days when queens could cut people's heads off and stuff.

    A growing number of people are joking about this but the joking part is wearing very thin indeed.
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    [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 16,275
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    Tequila wrote: »
    Same owd story eh? We won't promote our party (because we have nothing positive to promote to the public) so we'll simply smear and slag off anyone who questions us. The Righteous.
    Yep that is exactly what you did.
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    TequilaTequila Posts: 5,111
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    whip wrote: »
    Yep that is exactly what you did.

    I'm anti-party politics as no-one represents me. I would have voted for a libertarian led party but not this wishy-washy Blairlite lot.
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    [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 16,275
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    Tequila wrote: »
    I'm increasingly apolitical. I would have voted for a libertarian led party but not this wishy-washy Blairlite lot.
    So why the slagging off for no reason then? Or are you just pissed because you told someone with a serious medical problem not to go to the doctor on the advice thread and I happened to pick you up on it?
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    TequilaTequila Posts: 5,111
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    whip wrote: »
    Or are you just pissed because you told someone with a serious medical problem not to go to the doctor on the advice thread and I happened to pick you up on it?

    Not at all. I was suggesting that it would be logged on the SPINE that they have an alcohol problem (many people expect patient confidentiality to be sacrosanct when they visit their GP) if that was the course of action that they decided to take. For some that can be very damaging.
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    Raring_to_goRaring_to_go Posts: 20,565
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    RussellIan wrote: »
    Pity it isn't like the old days when queens could cut people's heads off and stuff.

    Liz could actually take action.....it's happened quite recently....

    http://www.abc.net.au/tv/btn/stories/s1506081.htm
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    phylo_roadkingphylo_roadking Posts: 21,339
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    But would you believe that 30 years ago, it did happen? The Prime Minister back then was sacked by the Governor General, and it was a very big deal!"

    Yeah - three decades ago and in a COMPLETELY different legal position and Constitutional position to the UK...
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    TequilaTequila Posts: 5,111
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    phylo_roadking wrote: »
    Yeah - three decades ago and in a COMPLETELY different legal position and Constitutional position to the UK...

    The 1975 Australia crisis?
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