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In the UK we generally ignore this problem because we "know" that the Queen will not bring about a constitutional crisis because she realises that presented wit
by lifeisstillgood 4y ago
In the UK we generally ignore this problem because we "know" that the Queen will not bring about a constitutional crisis because she realises that presented with a choice between the duly elected Prime Minster of the day and The Queen, all of us democratic citizens will of course choose the elected politician ... no wait ... err hang on ...
The British constitution is complicated.
- spacedcowboy 4y agoI dunno. We chopped the head off the last one who pushed too far. That sort of lesson tends to have some permanency as it echoes down the ages.
- thinkingemote 4y agoAlso, parliament learned lessons about the mess it gets into when there's nothing above them. Cromwell was even worse than the king before.
- pessimizer 4y agoFrance had their Cromwell moment, too, but they didn't revert everything afterwards. Turns out it requires a lot of furious, dangerous energy to destroy entrenched genetically-based status quos hundreds of years old. You can choose to come out of it as citizens rather than subjects.
- spacedcowboy 4y agoYou're aware that Brits aren't subjects, right ? That they're all citizens barring some really obscure corner-cases...