NoMoreEUSSR

I'd sooner blame her "advisors" and slimy crookèd politicians. I have a lot of respect for the Queen and stand by my belief that she would have done a much better job of running the UK single-handedly under absolute monarchy than the crooks who have been elected to Parliament. The problem with a dictatorship, though, is when persons less benign than the magnificent Queen Elizabeth II want to run the show.

Britannist

It seems that Brown's call for the promotion of Britishness only applies to England. He wants to suppress feelings of Englishness and English identity.

This is the same Brown who took the image of that great Englishman Sir Edward Elgar off the reverse side of the English £20 note and put a picture of Scottish economist Adam Smith on it instead.

If Gordon Brown cared about Britishness and British unity he would want the UK out of the EU - for it is the EU which seeks to break up the UK as part of its tactic of 'divide and rule'.

Britannist

Exactly Steve. The EU would destroy any Britishness that Brown claims to promote.

By the way Steve, when you write (above quote) that Gordon Brown is "lying through his teeth" - should that not be "lying through his capped teeth"?

Some newspapers claimed that Gordon Brown may (allegedly) have had some of his teeth done just before Blair quit.

Britannist

I agree NoMoreEUSSR - how lucky we all our to be of the second Elizabethan age .

Her Majesty The Queen does not accept euros at any of her Royal Palaces (thank goodness) and she took the step of asking Blair to send her a full and detailed analysis and explanation of what the EU Constitution was and how it would affect the UK (if it were approved). This action by The Monarch was taken by many as a sign of her concern. No British Prime Minister (before Blair's time in 10 Downing Street) was ever asked by Buckingham Palace to explain an EU Treaty proposal so thoroughly.

rjt

Proving she fufills her dutys as always with great dilligence.

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Mr Delors said that he wanted the European Parliament to be the democratic body of the community, The Commission to be The Executive and The Council Of Ministers The Senate. NO! NO! NO!
(Margaret Thatcher 30 Oct 1990)

Ignore List: The Prophets of ST Al the Unelectable.

Britannist

...Exactly.

eublues

Oh come off it. Where's the evidence she has done anything to protect our constitution?

Britannist

The role of Her Majesty The Queen is to respect the will of her people as that will is expressed through those they elect to legislate and pass Bills.

Her Majesty The Queen cannot say when a Bill giving more power to the EU is presented to her "I don't care if this bill has been approved by MPs elected by my people - I'm not signing it, throw it in the bin."

The protocol of all the Heads of State of developed democratic countries is to honour the decisions of Parliament and to accept that the will of the people as expressed through Parliament is the final decision and the one which must be upheld.

I want a system where no Bill like the EU Constitution (EU 'Amending' Treaty) could ever get through the House of Commons; let alone reach the desk of The Monarch for signature.

That means we must campaign for the Swiss referendum system to be introduced here. So all EU treaties would be 'killed off' (as far as the UK by the was concerned) by the British electorate before it even came to a vote on them in the House of Commons.

Popeye

It's all part of the run up to adopting the euro, which we will be commited to doing when the Lisbon Treaty is ratified and has received Royal Assent. A similar tactic was used when decimal coinage was phased in a couple of years prior to joining the Common Market (I think the 50p came first followed by the smaller denominations followed by joining up). The appearance of our existing coinage will be replaced by Euro oriented designs, even though the designs themselves will be what the ruling Marxists think of as 21st century British - something multicultural and egalitarian no doubt. A mango on the 1p, a chapatti on the 2p, an AK47 on the 5p, Tony Blair on the 10p, a burka on the 20p .... and the crowning glory, the East London mosque on the £2 coin.

Britannist

The UK £2 coin already has the appearance of the continental-looking 10 Franc coin in France which was in circulation up until the euro came in there.