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Except, of course, that England (and later the UK) has not had anything resembling a revolution since 1688, or 1642 if you don't consider the Glorious Revolutio
by Veen 4y ago
Except, of course, that England (and later the UK) has not had anything resembling a revolution since 1688, or 1642 if you don't consider the Glorious Revolution a real revolution. Constitutional monarchy has proven an extremely stable political system.
- pjc50 4y ago> England (and later the UK) has not had anything resembling a revolution since 1688 England, I'll give you. We can ignore Peterloo. But everyone always forgets Ireland successfully leaving the UK through a combination of armed struggle and political action. Not so much the stabilizing influence of the monarchy as the willingness to shell Dublin or fire randomly into protests in Northern Ireland. And quite a lot of the Twitter anti-monarchism at the moment has been from Kenyans.
- melesian 4y agoYou seem to have entirely airbrushed from history the loss of 1/3 of the UK's land area scarcely 100 years ago.