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How Much Power Does the Queen of England Have? Answer: A Lot

Submitted by Michael Krieger of Liberty Blitzkrieg

It’s amazing how this article flew so far under the radar. I will never forget a conversation with my dad when I was a little kid in which I asked about the Queen of England. Something in my DNA even at a very young age was disturbed by the concept of royalty. I remember his answer like it was yesterday: “Michael, the Queen is largely just ceremonial, she has no real power.” I was probably nine years old or so when he told me that. I thought it was strange at the time and I never forgot his answer. It wasn’t his fault of course, that is what everyone is very intentionally taught to believe. Well, it turns out that little old lady with a crown on her head running around the bucolic fields of England has some power after all. Who would’ve thought! From the UK’s Guardian:

The extent of the Queen and Prince Charles’s secretive power of veto over new laws has been exposed after Downing Street lost its battle to keep information about its application secret.

Whitehall papers prepared by Cabinet Office lawyers show that overall at least 39 bills have been subject to the most senior royals’ little-known power to consent to or block new laws. They also reveal the power has been used to torpedo proposed legislation relating to decisions about the country going to war.

The internal Whitehall pamphlet was only released following a court order and shows ministers and civil servants are obliged to consult the Queen and Prince Charles in greater detail and over more areas of legislation than was previously understood.

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A MESSAGE FROM THE QUEEN

To the citizens of the United States of America from Her Sovereign Majesty Queen Elizabeth II

In light of your failure in recent years to nominate competent candidates for President of the USA and thus to govern yourselves, we hereby give notice of the revocation of your independence, effective immediately. (You should look up ‘revocation’ in the Oxford English Dictionary.)

Her Sovereign Majesty Queen Elizabeth II will resume monarchical duties over all states, commonwealths, and territories (except North Dakota, which she does not fancy).

Your new Prime Minister, David Cameron, will appoint a Governor for America without the need for further elections.

Congress and the Senate will be disbanded. A questionnaire may be circulated next year to determine whether any of you noticed.

To aid in the transition to a British Crown dependency, the following rules are introduced with immediate effect:
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Politicians’ moat & porn expenses – “The voters made us do it!”

Stacy Summary: In a way, I suppose, the politicians are right. After all, we allowed neo-feudalism to arise in the hopes that we might become house-flipping Lords ourselves one day. So we kind of encouraged them to fleece us in order to build moats. The Queen, however, is not amused by the shambles of her neo-feudal state! I think she may get rid of this whole experiment with the Parliament. What do the Brits out there think? Better just to have one royal family sponging off the people to build their moats? I mean, why have 500+ royal families for whom we peasants have to build moats?