Charles said to be adopting ‘anti-confrontational approach’ to republican campaigners before visit
King Charles has said he will not stand in the way if Australia wishes to replace him as the country’s head of state, it has been reported.
Ahead of his visit later this month, the king is said to be adopting an “anti-confrontational approach” to Australian republican campaigners, the Daily Mail reported.
Suppose that Australia wants to become republic.
Scenario A: King Charles tries to oppose this. His opposition is overridden by, you know, democracy. Now he looks like even more of a schmuck for standing in the way of something that was going to happen anyway.
Scenario B: He doesn’t oppose it. Australia votes to become a republic, and seems like a cool guy for not standing in the way of the inevitable.
Seems like a pretty straightforward choice between options.
The thing is: not being a massive asshole for 0 reason is now soaring above the bar of expected behavior in most cases.
So many people are assholes just for the sake of being assholes.
I like that he just said ’your call’, even if he can’t do anything about it .
Trump would threaten to send in the army, then hurricanes, then nukes, then nuclear hurricanes.
Tangental: your comment made me curious where, in global terms, hurricanes are even able to form. Surprisingly (to me), a lot of areas.
Now Canada do the same!!
Canadians don’t feel strongly enough to go through the hassle of rewriting our Constitution.
Fuck, if we tried it some asshole in Alberta would probably sneak in language that vaccinations are illegal and masks cause cancer. Let’s not open that can of worms when we’ve got batshit insane conservatives about to seize power.
Yeah our constitution needs to stay closed until some sense of sanity returns to politics here, and I don’t see that happening for a long time.
I’d be satisfied if we got monarchs off our money, and removed them from public life as much as possible without amending the constitution. If I don’t have to look at it Im happy
No, Canadians don’t have any sort of party which can bring about any change. Most of us hate the monarchy
Is that something Québécois might actually agree with anglophones on?
Abolishing the monarchy would involve rewriting the constitution - if that was happening every province would want to slip in their own terms - Quebec would want specific French language rights and autonomy and if Quebec got their way Alberta would want something similar. We successfully altered the constitution back in 1982 - it took 2 years and the country almost blew up over it.
Basically it would be a total shit show. Considering the impact the monarchy has on our day to day life (basically zero) it’s easier to just let sleeping dogs lie
Hell, Quebec still to this day hasn’t ratified the 1982 update. They kept using the notwithstanding clause for years until the supreme court unilaterally decided that since QC is part of Canada, the constitution applies there in practice despite them not signing it.
Not without strings attached, as usual.
I dunno, I’ve met plenty of monarchist Anglos and plenty of anti monarchist Anglos and never one monarchist Quebecois or Quebecoise
I am one. I’m a pretty weak monarchist, though, it’s just that I look south and I’m glad that there’s a “higher level” looking over our politicians. Even if the GG nominations aren’t always ideal, at least in theory they aren’t beholden to popular opinion. The fact that they’re nominated and not elected ensures that they don’t have the legitimacy to push their own agenda either. So it’s a powerful position, but mostly symbolically and there would be a lot of backlash if some ambitious GG tried to use this power for anything other than extreme cases.
In my opinion, this is partly why our politics haven’t yet devolved to the point of getting a Donald Trump. You can say what you want about Trudeau, but at least the government doesn’t shut down every so often just because they can’t agree on a budget.
Bonjour hi, I knew there had to be some Franco monarchists, I’d just never met any. I don’t know if I completely agree but I appreciate the perspective.
It could be argued that the senate (also being unelected) is better at filling the role you ascribe to the GG. If anything it’s even better, since they don’t serve for a set term, and they have a much more involved legislative role.
You might be right, but our southern neighbours also have a Senate and it doesn’t seem to help…
What a guy! See? The British monarchy isn’t all bad!
/s
He also sells cookies. Everyone likes cookies! I mean they’re shitty shortbread ones, but…
Those are biscuits sir. There are now British troops at your door to kill your family and subvert your culture. (This comment may be extreme, but I’m gonna go with it)
I didn’t want to be accused of cultural appropriation (although I am a dual US-UK citizen thanks to a British father).
Plus, it’s very difficult to get biscuits and gravy over there. They look at you funny.
The Brits:
Oh I know. I once had the privilege of explaining the concept of biscuits and gravy to none other than former Sixth Doctor Colin Baker. That was essentially his reaction.
But I’m in Indiana and around here, that’s pretty standard breakfast fare.
You can’t not love this
Lots of fun! A few notes though.
- The host: “you halved it like a scone.” Someone not splitting it would give you that girl’s gif look around here. That’s what you do.
- The kids are right. Definitely better than scones.
- The gravy by itself is fucking awesome. That’s why it tastes just as good on chicken.
- It’s not what the British think of when they say sausage. It’s closer to Mexican chorizo because it’s spicier and ground up (not as spicy as chorizo though).
- The chicken thing is called, and I have no idea why, ‘chicken fried steak’ and it’s not just a Southern thing and the breading they’re using on the chicken looks wrong.
- It’s not “Southern tea,” it’s “sweet tea” and it’s nasty. You can have unsweetened ice tea. It’s much better. I grew up on proper English tea, so that’s what I prefer. Hot with milk and a bit sweet.
- DON’T EAT IN THE LIBRARY YOU PHILISTINES!
Finally!
Ol’ Sausage Fingers can stand?
You know what, that earns him a lot of respect points in my eyes. This is a good king.
I wonder if this is the first step toward dissolving the monarchy.
Now do Scotland.
Priorities:
- homelessness
- fascism
- crime
- education
- economy
AUSTRALIA CHOOSES:
- ditching pointless classification that doesn’t harm anything or anyone physically or medically
Bunch of bogons.
Australia already spends time and money maintaining the English monarch as the head of state. And it’s not a ceremonial position; the governor-general has reserve powers, such as the ability to remove office holders, like in 1975. It is only convention, not law that appoints and makes the GG act on the PMs ‘recommendations’ rather than the Monarch; the description of the office has not been rewritten. We can’t rely on convention to govern a country and need to have explicit laws that match our ideals of how a democracy should behave. It’s unexploded ordinance that should be cleaned up… let’s do that rather than spending our time and money changing all the pictures on the money, and the pronouns on all the legal documents each time a monarch croaks.
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