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Brexit

Westminstenders: Chaos

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RedToothBrush · 25/03/2019 15:37

If anyone says they know what will happen this week....

... They don't.

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yolofish · 25/03/2019 16:26

DGR it is unfortunate to find myself thinking along the same lines as something in the Express - but then as is frequently said, a stopped clock is right twice a day!!

Icantreachthepretzels · 25/03/2019 16:27

Impossible to email the queen ... facebook? Twitter? I bet Buck house has an account.

Motheroffourdragons · 25/03/2019 16:27

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Runningintothesunset · 25/03/2019 16:28

No idea about emailing her, but if you write a physical letter they are all read, and replied to, by ladies in waiting. They convey the messages on apparently.

DGRossetti · 25/03/2019 16:28

Since we're not leavers, and all seem to have a passion for facts, knowledge and learning, here's the coronation oath. Noting that this happened a generation before I was born. DM (sadly passed) had the day off school to watch, apparently.

www.royal.uk/coronation-oath-2-june-1953

In the Coronation ceremony of 2 June 1953, one of the highlights was when The Queen made her Coronation Oath (taken from the Order of Service for the Coronation).

The Queen having returned to her Chair, (her Majesty having already on Tuesday, the 4th day of November, 1952, in the presence of the two Houses of Parliament, made and signed the Declaration prescribed by Act of Parliament), the Archbishop standing before her shall administer the Coronation Oath, first asking the Queen,

Madam, is your Majesty willing to take the Oath?

And the Queen answering,

I am willing.

The Archbishop shall minister these questions; and The Queen, having a book in her hands, shall answer each question severally as follows:

Archbishop. Will you solemnly promise and swear to govern the Peoples of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the Union of South Africa, Pakistan, and Ceylon, and of your Possessions and the other Territories to any of them belonging or pertaining, according to their respective laws and customs?

Queen. I solemnly promise so to do.

Archbishop. Will you to your power cause Law and Justice, in Mercy, to be executed in all your judgements?

Queen. I will.

Archbishop. Will you to the utmost of your power maintain the Laws of God and the true profession of the Gospel? Will you to the utmost of your power maintain in the United Kingdom the Protestant Reformed Religion established by law? Will you maintain and preserve inviolably the settlement of the Church of England, and the doctrine, worship, discipline, and government thereof, as by law established in England? And will you preserve unto the Bishops and Clergy of England, and to the Churches there committed to their charge, all such rights and privileges, as by law do or shall appertain to them or any of them?

Queen. All this I promise to do.

Then the Queen arising out of her Chair, supported as before, the Sword of State being carried before her, shall go to the Altar, and make her solemn Oath in the sight of all the people to observe the premisses: laying her right hand upon the Holy Gospel in the great Bible (which was before carried in the procession and is now brought from the Altar by the Arch-bishop, and tendered to her as she kneels upon the steps), and saying these words:

The things which I have here before promised, I will perform and keep. So help me God.

Then the Queen shall kiss the Book and sign the Oath.

The Queen having thus taken her Oath shall return again to her Chair, and the Bible shall be delivered to the Dean of Westminster.

BiglyBadgers · 25/03/2019 16:28

Surely all she’s saying is, ‘vote for my deal or you’re getting No Deal and it’s your own fault, not mine!’?

This is also my reading of it. She has ruled out everything apart from her deal. Therefore I suspect she will claim that if parliament don't vote for her deal they she will class that as a vote for no deal. I see nothing in anything she has said to indicate she will take any other course.

BiglyBadgers · 25/03/2019 16:30

Impossible to email the queen ... facebook? Twitter? I bet Buck house has an account.

Doesn't she have instagram now?

Lexilooo · 25/03/2019 16:30

I have been reading these threads for while but haven't posted. I'm bloody terrified about the way this is going.

She's really lost the plot hasn't she? Why the bloody hell isn't anyone stopping her from self destructing and taking the whole country with her? Corbyn you incompetent twat, why aren't you doing your job and leading an effective opposition?

What can we do to stop a default no deal? My MP is ERG so not getting much joy there.

Are there legal avenues? What about the HoL?

OhLookHeKickedTheBall · 25/03/2019 16:31

thanks red

BiglyBadgers · 25/03/2019 16:31

The Royal instagram account is @ theroyalfamily we could all try bombarding it with requests to save the union forthwith.

Motheroffourdragons · 25/03/2019 16:31

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DGRossetti · 25/03/2019 16:31

Also, how come the Queen was able to intervene to fly a bloody flag, but not intervene when the country is in meltdown ?

MockerstheFeManist · 25/03/2019 16:33

Mayborg has just falsely stated that the 2016 Referendum was not advisory but "an instruction from the British People..."

This is tosh.

Motheroffourdragons · 25/03/2019 16:33

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EweSurname · 25/03/2019 16:35

I’m cynical about what ruling out no deal means too but some people seem to think it’s of consequence

mobile.twitter.com/JolyonMaugham/status/1110209335148363776

TheElementsSong · 25/03/2019 16:36

Am I understanding correctly? May is effectively saying that Parliament is meaningless and she will do what she wants?

Motheroffourdragons · 25/03/2019 16:36

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Songsofexperience · 25/03/2019 16:36

From the Guardian live feed:

*4m ago 16:30

Crispin Blunt, the Tory Brexiter, says what May said in her statement about MPs voting against no deal torpedoes her deal. He says it is the most shameful surrender by the UK since Singapore in 1942.

May says she is not taking no deal off the table.*

There you go.

SusanWalker · 25/03/2019 16:37

PMK

prettybird · 25/03/2019 16:37

We could always Shock write Shock on paper Shock and post the letter Shock to the Queen Grin

Songsofexperience · 25/03/2019 16:38

WA disconnected from the political declaration. No deal (delayed by 2 years)

Or... No deal right now

That's why they were all smiling yesterday. They got what they want.

Tragic day.

MockerstheFeManist · 25/03/2019 16:38

She has stated that if Parliament votes for something, her govt. will ignore it.

Oh Very Dear

GaspodeWonderCat · 25/03/2019 16:38

Wessex Independence Party - I'm in.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somerton,_Somerset Somerton capital of Wessex 900 AD.

TheElementsSong · 25/03/2019 16:38

Shock I wonder how many Leavers will be along to tell us that they foresaw all this, and it's exactly what they voted for (blah-blah democracy blah-blah sovereignty blah-blah proper government) way back when they drawled their X on that piece of paper.

PostNotInHaste · 25/03/2019 16:39

This all unbelievable , especially when you consider she doesn't actually even have a majority.