(08-06-2019, 06:23 PM)robkelk Wrote:

(08-06-2019, 03:24 PM)Dartz Wrote: It's the hum of desperation from them

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Does any other service have the same story?

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Quote: The Queen has privately expressed disappointment in the current crop of British politicians and their "inability to govern," a report has claimed.

The 93-year-old monarch made the comments at a private event after David Cameron resigned following the EU referendum in 2016, the Sunday Times said.

The newspaper, quoting a royal source, said the Queen's frustrations with the political class had only grown since then.

"I think she's really dismayed," the source said.

"I've heard her talking about her disappointment in the current political class and its inability to govern correctly."

The report comes after it emerged that Buckingham Palace and Downing Street are holding urgent talks about how to prevent the Queen from being dragged into the looming constitutional crisis over Brexit.

Sir Mark Sedwill, the UK's most senior civil servant, and Edward Young, the Queen's private secretary, spoke on the phone last week about increasing calls from both pro- and anti-Brexit MPs for her to step into the debate, the Telegraph reported.

The call was prompted by growing speculation that politicians will try and force the Queen to intervene if Boris Johnson loses a no-confidence vote in September or October.

Downing Street sources have said that the prime minister would refuse to resign until after Brexit, prompting anti-Brexit MPs including Dominic Grieve, the former attorney-general, to suggest the Queen could be force to summon him to Buckingham Palace and sack him.

In a further extraordinary intervention, John McDonnell, Labour's shadow chancellor, suggested he would respond by sending the Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn "in a cab" to Buckingham Palace to tell the Queen that the party was ready to assume power.

The Queen has remained impartial throughout her 67-year reign and the Royal household would be highly resistant to making any political intervention into a highly charged debate.

(08-28-2019, 09:15 AM)classicdrogn Wrote: I'm half-expecting her majesty to simply not exercise her right to call for the suspension and/or have the speech be firmly stating that the legislative priority is to decide on a resolution to the mess rather than running the timer out to a voteless exit by default, but admittedly I only loosely followed British politics up to this business so I'm not sure how firm her own political ground is or how much of the custom is closer to being unofficial but socially binding law.

(08-28-2019, 07:16 AM)Bob Schroeck Wrote: It's a hair more complicated than that -- he's scheduled the Queen's Speech, which is traditionally preceded by a month-long shutdown of Parliament declared by the Queen, in such a way that by the absolute purest coincidence it would happen to prevent there being much time at all for any kind of action on Brexit.  How strange that it supports his agenda...

One article on it here

(08-28-2019, 01:46 PM)Dartz Wrote: Hahahaha..... WTF?!

I think someone did that in Canada once to avoid a vote of no confidence. Maybe Rob will correct me on that but I think it went down like a fart in a space station.

(08-28-2019, 06:07 PM)Black Aeronaut Wrote: So, once everything goes to hell in a handbasket, think anyone will complain if Lizzie exercises emergency powers?

(08-29-2019, 12:45 AM)classicdrogn Wrote:

(08-28-2019, 06:07 PM)Black Aeronaut Wrote: So, once everything goes to hell in a handbasket, think anyone will complain if Lizzie exercises emergency powers?

Well, one would hope. There's not much point in having a head of state if they can't even tell people they've been acting quite poorly and there shall be no pudding until they sit down and work out a solution.

(08-29-2019, 06:50 AM)nemonowan Wrote: Unlikely. She is 92 years old and her main concern in the last decades has been the preservation of Royalty as a British institution (reportedly, Diana's death scandal affected so much the royals' image that it seriously made her fear it would be abolished). As such, she is keeping it together by a combination of her personal popularity and by sticking to being a ceremonial rubberstamper (she approved of Boris' proroguing of parliament within hours, without even bothering to talk to the other politicians who had asked for an audience).
So, no matter what happens in Britain she will never accept to take direct control of anything because that would make her responsible for anything that goes wrong.