The government has confirmed that republicanism is still punishable by life imprisonment and that it remains illegal to even ‘imagine’ overthrowing the Queen.
The only possible support that might come from me for the queen is that the alternatives are worse. Nothing more. I have no time for her nor her dysfunctional family and certainly have no allegiance for her. I am not her subject. I am, therefore, a republican – and I’m not only imagining it, I’ll happily state it openly. Except, like democracy, it is the least worst option. The thought of a career politician as head of state doesn’t bear thinking about. I despise all of them – the politicians and the monarchy.
So, Mr Cameron, what are you going to do about it? I have imagined the unimaginable.
But you have gently skirted around the whole point.
Go on say OPENLY “fuck the Queen and her brood, overthrow them, arrest them all and set up a republic!”
Go on, SAY it!…. 😈
It brings a small smile to my face, thinking about TPTB & our legal bods*, who have shown themselves to be serially incompetent in virtually every other field, trying to prove beyond a reasonable doubt what some dastardly ne’er-do-well (e.g. me) has or hasn’t imagined.
Are the people who come up with such ludicrous statements genuinely sentient?
*bods – a more polite way of saying “twats”.
This of course is using ‘imagine’ in the sense (now archaic) of plotting or conspiring. Even in the eighteenth century this was a secondary meaning – Johnson gives as his second meaning for imagine “To scheme or contrive”, supported by a quote from Psalm 21.11: “For they intended evil against thee: they imagined a mischievous device, which they are not able to perform” which a more modern translation renders as “Though they plot evil against you and devise wicked schemes, they cannot succeed.”
Disappointing that the arts graduates who write for our newspapers can’t even get stuff right in what should be their area of expertise: words. Notable that _none_ of the commentators are aware of this simple fact either.
“…is that the alternatives are worse.”
Rather like capitalism, then? 😉
Indeed. Don’t stop the guardianista trying though.
The Queen has already been overthrown. Her sovereignty has been given to un-elected marxists in Brussels and she has been forced to renege on her coronation vows to uphold Christian values.
Be thankful you don’t live in Thailand. Your sentiments would land you in jail with a long sentence. Lèse majesté law has been used as a tool to control the people for a long time.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A8se_majest%C3%A9_in_Thailand
However, the wheels are coming off that particular wagon now, as the much adored (mistakenly, to my mind) old King Bhumibol is on his last legs now, and the heir apparent is an arrogant playboy who is not much liked. Hence the law as it stands will have little popular support.
We ACTUALLY already live in a republioc
That happens to have an hereditary head-of-state.
Or did no-one notice?
Nonsense.
If we lived in a republic, the ordinary voter would have at least some influence…