Millions in direct cost, billions in indirect costs probably. It’s gonna break peoples brains: the last real, prominent remnant of Britain as a serious power, all that almost anyone knows of as a figurehead for the country. Someone that liberals could take comfort in when despairing about Boris or Brexit, and conversely, someone that Brexiteers view as the true leader of the country.
To be replaced with Charles, a man who is even more of a universal figure, in that absolutely everyone hates him. Commonwealth countries will rightly take this moment to eject the monarchy, exposing the pipe dream of a “global Britain” being built on the ashes of its empire as the absurdity that it is.
The U.K. will also lose its remaining social democratic institutions in the coming years (eg: the BBC and NHS), heightening the sense of, and material reality of, it’s collapse.
I think England (post Scottish independence) will handily beat the US to becoming an actual, full blown fascist state. Which is funny until you consider it’s going to be brutal for millions of poor people, and that government will have nuclear weapons.
disclaimer that i know fuckall about the royal family, but dudes only job his entire life was "waiting to be king", when push comes to shove he seems like the sort of person whose ego would struggle to give that up, especially when the whole reason for bypassing him is just that nobody fucking likes him
he would probably get pressured out but i could see there being drama and im :sicko-yes: for that
From a liberal perspective, they need to pass a law saying that upon her death the UK becomes a republic. Just avoid Charles altogether and go out with probably the most well liked monarch in British history (in spite of the truth about her and her family of course).
But we all know libs won't do what it takes to save their own system if it goes against their ideology.
Millions in direct cost, billions in indirect costs probably. It’s gonna break peoples brains: the last real, prominent remnant of Britain as a serious power, all that almost anyone knows of as a figurehead for the country. Someone that liberals could take comfort in when despairing about Boris or Brexit, and conversely, someone that Brexiteers view as the true leader of the country.
To be replaced with Charles, a man who is even more of a universal figure, in that absolutely everyone hates him. Commonwealth countries will rightly take this moment to eject the monarchy, exposing the pipe dream of a “global Britain” being built on the ashes of its empire as the absurdity that it is.
The U.K. will also lose its remaining social democratic institutions in the coming years (eg: the BBC and NHS), heightening the sense of, and material reality of, it’s collapse.
I think England (post Scottish independence) will handily beat the US to becoming an actual, full blown fascist state. Which is funny until you consider it’s going to be brutal for millions of poor people, and that government will have nuclear weapons.
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disclaimer that i know fuckall about the royal family, but dudes only job his entire life was "waiting to be king", when push comes to shove he seems like the sort of person whose ego would struggle to give that up, especially when the whole reason for bypassing him is just that nobody fucking likes him
he would probably get pressured out but i could see there being drama and im :sicko-yes: for that
His lifelong pseudo-environmentalism will stop him abdicating, feeling the desperate need to “do something” about climate change.
To Play The King will then happen.
From a liberal perspective, they need to pass a law saying that upon her death the UK becomes a republic. Just avoid Charles altogether and go out with probably the most well liked monarch in British history (in spite of the truth about her and her family of course).
But we all know libs won't do what it takes to save their own system if it goes against their ideology.
It wouldn’t actually happen, but President Blair locked in a power struggle with Boris whole trying to make Britain look serious would be :chefs-kiss: