No presidents or lord protectors, thank you.
We have the foundation of a good system already, it just needs a few tweaks here and there.
Our de-facto head of state, the Speaker of the House of Commons, would become actual head of state, with the Speaker of the (elected) Lords as deputy HoS. Their function would be no different, and they could be elected in the same way as they are now.
It might be nice to give the speaker powers to censure the prime minister if they turn out to be a lying sack of shit. It might also be nice to codify a few laws associated with the office of prime minister to avoid future repeats of the mess we're in now.
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brb man-child cuck corporate supplicant fuck, Tue 15 Feb 2022, 18:55,
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You cannot have a head of state also in charge of parliament.
Why not have a German style republic, where the president is basically some unknown, boring has been politician whose sole responsability is cutting ribbons and signing laws. Or the Swiss model, where cabinet ministers take it in turns to function as head of state.
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Tusk knows where you live, Tue 15 Feb 2022, 19:17,
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How colourful and fascinating!
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After you my dear Alfonse No. After you., Tue 15 Feb 2022, 19:27,
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just to be clear
the options are colourful and institutionally paedophilic, or grey and only occassionally paedophilic.
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Fuck me, did you just read that shit though? Imagine making a billion dollar Netflix series about brb or Tusk's vision of the world. Imagine being excited about it. Imagine fucking living in it! You're the constitutional equivalents of Eric Olthwaite.
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After you my dear Alfonse No. After you., Tue 15 Feb 2022, 20:29,
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It's worth it for the good telly, is one way of looking at it.
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Tue 15 Feb 2022, 20:37,
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Exciting political systems are not stable. I don't have Netflix, & I'm not sure what you're blithering on about wrt Ripping Yarns.
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brb man-child cuck corporate supplicant fuck, Tue 15 Feb 2022, 22:27,
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Yes, I don't imagine you're ever entirely sure about anything.
Let's have a look - if you can stop eating crayons for a moment - at Wikipedia.
By one metric at least, it's literally impossible to name a more stable head of state:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_current_state_leaders_by_date_of_assumption_of_office
Never mind, probably a Harvard study will show your infantile theory to be true. Nope, eight of the ten most stable countries in the world have a monarch.
www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/slideshows/10-most-politically-stable-countries-ranked-by-perception
Still, probably the best thing to do is to ignore all that, cross our fucking fingers, and give your clownish Speaker of the House idea a try.
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After you my dear Alfonse No. After you., Wed 16 Feb 2022, 5:23,
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Your forelock will fall off if you keep tugging it that hard.
You know what's guaranteed to win you an argument? 1: attack the arguer, not the argument, 2: link to wikipedia.
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brb man-child cuck corporate supplicant fuck, Wed 16 Feb 2022, 13:00,
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1. See your post below FeralCatMan's nonsense that nobody read. 2. Your library of hide-bound volumes on constitutional politics seems to be full of freshers week bollocks.
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After you my dear Alfonse No. After you., Wed 16 Feb 2022, 18:50,
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Your social references seem to all come from an early Viz annual. It's most peculiar.
You seem to be in favour of the status quo on the basis that my alternative isn't worth getting exited about. So I guess the status quo is worth getting excited about..? But a small change to remove the aristocracy from government, that's dull.... I do not follow your argument. You could try to make yourself clearer.
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brb man-child cuck corporate supplicant fuck, Wed 16 Feb 2022, 22:00,
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I can see your point.
Germans are good at efficiency and wars, so the Saxe-Coburg-Gotha family seems a good choice.
What I object to is the accumulation of ridiculous unearned wealth and wielding power over swathes of people purely as a product of birth. Lots of the grand buildings were built on the cruel exploitation of people here and abroad.
During the Victorian era the hypocrisy was blatant eg. Chimneys built for children to crawl through, built on the outside so they could be dismantled to retrieve dead kids, without damaging the structure. I'll stop ranting now.
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Wed 16 Feb 2022, 13:12,
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Based on this post I'd say your best options are to be found in a list of antipsychotics. :P
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brb man-child cuck corporate supplicant fuck, Tue 15 Feb 2022, 22:19,
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You can, and, in fact, we do.
The queen's permission is required to start and stop parliamentary sessions. She literally has control over parliament in that way, and a fair few other ways which need to be legislated away post haste.
Our speaker is essentially the head of state, and is who all parliamentary business is directed to, and is the authority who says who can and cannot sit in parliamentary sessions, so is in charge of parliament in that way.
Our defacto HoS is usually a relatively unknown boring politician, and much of their duties are ceremonial and bureaucratic.
A cabinet minister as head of state seems one step away from having an American style president, so no thank you. We can keep keep the role of Speaker mostly as it is.
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brb man-child cuck corporate supplicant fuck, Tue 15 Feb 2022, 22:13,
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