tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7729562980132720815.post3772194838046762207..comments2024-03-22T02:27:30.009-05:00Comments on Royal World: Illogical Idiocy in PerthTheodore Harveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16242452485576182841noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7729562980132720815.post-24524184374364891682011-10-31T07:18:43.964-05:002011-10-31T07:18:43.964-05:00I'm not a hard-core Jacobite, I fully accept H...I'm not a hard-core Jacobite, I fully accept Her Majesty the Queen as my Sovereign...but I utterly reject the idea that Parliament can alter the succession.<br /><br />That said - I will fully accept the proposed change, because regardless of what votes are made by various politicians the change will be accepted by the Sovereign (whether in person or through her Governors General). That the Sovereign has the authority to make changes (within reason) to the succession is pretty much beyond doubt.<br /><br />I don't much care about the change either way, I'd much rather that it be made by a royal proclamation (if made at all), but it all adds up to the same number.The Moderate Jacobitehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02643594581501536867noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7729562980132720815.post-31300458192446699402011-10-28T23:53:08.462-05:002011-10-28T23:53:08.462-05:00Your points are well taken. Mrs. Wood does not see...Your points are well taken. Mrs. Wood does not seem to me to be terribly focused on monarchy, if indeed she is a monarchist at all(she has never, that I can recall, stated her opinion on forms of government one way or the other). I read her mostly for her opinion on other issues, especially feminism vs. patriarchy.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7729562980132720815.post-69645680783811063202011-10-28T22:25:43.888-05:002011-10-28T22:25:43.888-05:00I often agree with Laura Wood, but she's still...I often agree with Laura Wood, but she's still too American and republican in her thinking. Why close that entry with the fear that "without the institution of monogamy, democracy cannot remain viable"? Who cares? What is so great about "democracy"?<br /><br />Also I don't see that the monarchy has "declined" nearly as much as the society it continues to try to serve. If anything the Queen and most of her family are better than modern Britain deserves.Theodore Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16242452485576182841noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7729562980132720815.post-33056622085885418912011-10-28T20:37:24.730-05:002011-10-28T20:37:24.730-05:00I hope you're right. By the way, according to ...I hope you're right. By the way, according to Laura Wood (http://www.thinkinghousewife.com/wp/2011/10/the-boy-who-will-not-be-king/), the proposal hasn't gotten through the various Parliaments yet, which is not the impression I got from any news story, and is somewhat more hopeful. It's pretty scary though; monarchists have been laughing at this since it was proposed because they assumed the Realms could not be so coordinated. And yet it looks like they are very coordinated indeed on this issue.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7729562980132720815.post-19550314494595092512011-10-28T15:41:46.585-05:002011-10-28T15:41:46.585-05:00I wouldn't quite go that far. It's very d...I wouldn't quite go that far. It's very discouraging that this egalitarian politically correct insanity is so pervasive, but having spent part of each of the past three summers there, I'd say there's life in England yet. Remember that what one reads in the news is almost by definition the worst of what is happening...Theodore Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16242452485576182841noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7729562980132720815.post-3448685999684428392011-10-28T14:50:24.729-05:002011-10-28T14:50:24.729-05:00Well, England is over. Some of us still remember, ...Well, England is over. Some of us still remember, though. Let us all pray for a return to sanity and the restoration of England and the United Kingdom to some semblance of rightly ordered Christian monarchy.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com