Next the Monarchy, yea!
10.03.2026 22:18
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Next the Monarchy, yea!
Now get the bishops out. Religious leaders have no place as lawmakers
There is a democratic argument that one retains broad public legitimacy - for a mostly ceremonial role, with limited powers - and the other lacks legitimacy, but ministers are simply ducking it.
The ministerial quotes articulate principles that would seem to apply to the constitutional monarchy too - in its formal Royal Assent function on legislation - but they duck that
"The Government believes that no one should be able to vote on legislation solely on the basis of their inheritance, so reform of this outdated and undemocratic principle has been long overdue".
www.gov.uk/government/n...
We are all descended from kings, queens, dukes, duchesses, and the people who slopped out their bedpans.
All of us.
It's a scam.
If you go back 900 years, then a very high percentage of the people who read this post will also be descended from this man's ancestor.
I'm almost certainly descended from him.
Why don't I get a seat in the House of Lords?
Hereditary peerages will be abolished before the next King’s Speech
47/ US military experts have been studying this question for decades. Read Prof Talmadge assessment of how difficult it would be to force open Hormuz as a military matter given Iranian capbilities.
Paper www.caitlintalmadge.com/uploads/8/5/...
Thread
bsky.app/profile/prof...
46/ full blown panic now. Significant military news:
“US Navy is refusing to escort ships through the Straight of Hormuz: “The Navy's assessments spell continued disruption to Middle East oil exports and reflect a divergence from President Donald Trump’s statements.”
www.reuters.com/world/middle...
45/ This is BAD. Utterly predicted by mil researchers who know the enemy gets a vote. Oil spikes.
@CBSNews: "U.S. intelligence assets have begun to see indications Iran is taking steps to deploy mines in Strait of Hormuz shipping lane. Iran is using smaller crafts that can carry 2 to 3 mines each"
So who just made billions of dollars shorting oil for the few minutes that Trump's energy secretary Chris Wright had that post up?
Iran's foreign minister's response goes hard.
(Reuters) - The U.S. Navy has refused near-daily requests from the shipping industry for military escorts through the Strait of Hormuz since the start of the war on Iran, saying the risk of attacks is too high for now, according to sources familiar ..
www.marketscreener.com/news/us-navy...
BBC correspondent reporting live re Gaza says Israel used white phosphorus.
The broadcast is instantly cut.
Staggering numbers. “Mass displacement across Lebanon has forced nearly 700,000 people – including around 200,000 children – from their homes, adding to the tens of thousands already uprooted from previous escalations…Children are being killed and…thousands are now sleeping in…overcrowded shelters.”
WHY! What is the point of doing this. It’s just cruel.
This is so interesting because the SFS was basically designed by the farming lobby and in its current form they barely have a single complaint about it even when pressed
This is it.
Reform are going to tie themselves in an amusing knot by taking the loudspeaker rhetoric of the farming lobby seriously, when they, and most farmers in Wales, know SFS is a lifeline they've had a disproportionate hand in shaping.
Nigel Farage, cosplaying as a country gent, gets tetchy when asked by @bethrigby.bsky.social about Reform UK’s inconsistencies and flip-flopping over the Iran War.
Now, apparently, confirmed by Farage: www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
There's a bunch of Chevening Scholars in my Masters classes and they massively enrich it. Impressive people and also so obviously wedded to going back and improving their own countries.
I’m wondering what the downside is of enabling outstanding scholars to study in Britain? I can’t think of one.
oh well this is rather fun, a new fungus for Great Britain!
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www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...?
The hereditary peers go out in the most British way possible: a step towards democratising the state is achieved only by taking a half step backwards at the same time.
With their overwhelming majority in England, they plan to use that to over-ride Scottish and Welsh Devolution that our countries have battled for centuries for.
Only one way now - Independence.
Labour are absolutely determined to be decimated in the elections for the Senedd Cymru and the Scottish Parliament
“UK taxpayers pay for it anyway” isn’t the point.
The question is who exercises democratic authority over devolved policy. Voters in Wales and Scotland elect institutions to do that.
If Westminster spends around them whenever it feels like it, devolution is a courtesy rather than a settlement.
The point is that the people of the devolved countries have the right to decide spending in devolved matters. The UK govt has no right to say here is £x which you must spend on Y, when we want to prioritise spending on Z.
