I know this is a tactless thing to post but what would happen politically if the Queen died tonight?..

[BertrandRussell]

She is 93- the possibility’s there...

The current political crisis will not have any bearing on the Bridge plans. They would all go ahead as planned (MPs have very little to do with the Bridge plans) and Charles would immediately become King

@StealthPolarBear

And no one would be quite sure why but we'd all cheer.

What? At the Queen dying?

Speak for yourself!

Nasty thread!

No that's not what I said. You either didn't read or chose to misinterpret. That's a shitty thing to do.

What's so horrible? There ARE plans for personality and head of states.

Most nobodies have plans for their own family!
Wondering the political impact is a valid question.

None would be the answer.

And flouncy that's not what op was asking.
Are people struggling to understand tonight?

How long will it take to update all our money is what I want to know!

Hippo if you're still struggling can I suggest copying out the sentence you quoted so badly out of context.
I'm so angry with this.

Boris would be put on the funeral pyre.

She’d stop breathing.

@Hirsutefirs and @FizzyGreenWater

I’ll cry 😢

I like her & she makes the world feel a safer and more stable place. I’ll be very sad when she dies.

Charles 🤦🏻‍♀️ But I’ll tolerate him to give William a few more years of relative freedom - I’m generous like that 🤣

Long live the Queen 👸🏻

@Sarahlou63

I worked on a few Royal projects. “Bridge” is written in to all of them. It was really interesting to see what all had to happen.

Incidentally you can just tell she despises Boris. Haha

One of my adult children is fairly high up in a city council. They’ve got a stock of black ties and armbands for such an occasion.

They’ve also got outline plans for screening the funeral etc etc.

I like her & she makes the world feel a safer and more stable place. does she?!? Maybe in a James Bond movie, but not in the real world!

I think there would be zero constitutional implications for the Brexit crisis - Charles doesn’t have the capital to intervene whatever his views so he would be forced to maintain the same stance as the queen. Behind closed doors he might be less tactful than her, but Boris will give no shits.

I think it could deepen the crisis of political confidence though. The people manipulating Brexit have played on destroying people’s truth in existing institutions and some of them would be happy to extend that to the monarchy.

Charles would try to stick his nose in politically. But like the current monarch ultimately he’s be a figurehead with no power. Maybe they’d start to modernise a little but that will probably not come until William.

Will the country be happy to embrace Charles as king?

Even republicans like me have respect and affection for the queen, I don't believe the public mood is the same for Charlie.

Charles becomes king instantly the moment she pops her clogs. There are no constitutional issues whatsoever.

The only thing known to go faster than ordinary light is monarchy, according to the philosopher Ly Tin Wheedle. He reasoned like this: you can't have more than one king, and tradition demands that there is no gap between kings, so when a king dies the succession must therefore pass to the heir instantaneously. Presumably, he said, there must be some elementary particles kingons, or possibly queons that do this job, but of course succession sometimes fails if, in mid-flight, they strike an anti-particle, or republicon. His ambitious plans to use his discovery to send messages, involving the careful torturing of a small king in order to modulate the signal, were never fully expanded because, at that point, the bar closed.

Nothing. I'll still be a republican.

I love a bit of Terry Pratchett. Thanks for that Yoba.

There seems to be a conserted effort to influence against the monarchy / for an elected he'd of state. I think it'd help that.

This has been going on as far back as I remember. If the anti royalists were anywhere near effective or had any kind of support, they would have won by now.

I doubt Charles will have the same backing and respect as Her Maj has somehow. She has been a great Monarch in fairness, whether you agree with royalty or not

I think that’s mainly due to longevity. People hate change. It is weird to think that I’ve known the same monarch since I can remember but DD will almost certainly see George as King.

It’s an interesting question because the current convention is for the monarch to be basically a figurehead and that’s the role the queen has mostly taken - however what’s to say a future monarch abided by that convention? If Charles is a remainer he could in theory exercise more power than the Queen has done...not sure of the details but surely possible?
Yes I was wondering whether the Supreme Court judgement would give more power to the Monarch. I notice they were very careful not to say BJ had lied to the Queen, but I wonder if the judgement would give the monarch more power to question the PM if they want to do something that is not usual. But it could be now that the monarch has a duty to ask questions and may have the power to at least tell the PM to go away and reconsider. I dont know. They shouldnt have it, but then whats the point of them then? Its all a charade.

Gingerkittykat.

I said similar upthread. But who knows anyway.

I think this thread, whilst a tad ahem, something or other, is an antidote for the awfulness that is going on in the elected Parliament right now.

I hope the Queen lives as long if not longer than her dear mother did, and keeps Charles from the throne for as long as possible. Just my own view.

Little difference other than any delays in the functions of parliament. Probably to BoJo's advantage in allowing the Hard Brexit clock tick away by a few more days.