AngryofTuebrook

Welcome back, Gnash. Not seen you for a while. It's reassuring that you're still making the same nonsensical and long-discredited arguments. Your steadfast refusal to engage with reality is a rock of consistency in these tempestuous times.

A Head of State with no formal political power is like a Lord Mayor: might look good on the front of the local paper opening a new sewage works, but if they weren't there, the important stuff would still get done. The same is true for every country with a Windsor on their money. More than a Head of State, we need a Head of Government - ideally, a directly-elected head of the Executive branch, which needs to be separated from the Legislative branch. Actually, we need lots of reform to get some democracy into the way we are governed. We could fill the ambassadorial roles with people who get the job because they're good at it; not because God says their family is inherently better than your family and mine.

I read a really good article a while back (and I think I posted a link on the Inequality thread) written by a public school alumnus, explaining that the essence of a public school education is found in the rituals, the language, the games and all the other exclusive cliquey things that tell you repeatedly "you are one of us and your role is to lead".

This. This is the strongest argument against the monarchy. Support for any form of monarchy is incompatible with democracy.

Do they need replacing with anything? Apart from the monarch going through the motions of giving assent to every Act of Parliament (a ludicrous process that any democracy would cheerfully consign to history) what do any of them actually do?

And it goes unchallenged.

Not really. First episode was excellent but then it got progressively sillier and more implausible. It's a shame, because there were some good ideas in it that better scriptwriters (with more episodes?) could have done something with.

Not as if more evidence is needed, but...

But he has agreed to a cosy tête á tête with Laura, so that's cool.

Yeah, we all remember how Corbyn chickened out of all the debates. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/election-2017-40105324

He's probably working on a way to argue that the shift of power from the cunt standing up to the cunt sitting down is, in fact, a triumph for the proletarian revolution.

I'm trying to grow a hedge, to see if I can buy FSG out. (I think that's how it works.)

I've just spotted - and repped - "Alehouse futsal"

That was my first thought; it's deeply silly.

Aidy Boothroyd must be gutted that Gomez and Trent are doing their defending in the senior team.