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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: Nearly Sane on October 05, 2018, 10:16:03 AM

Title: The once and future queen
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 05, 2018, 10:16:03 AM

'Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony'


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-45753455

Title: Re: The once and future queen
Post by: Rhiannon on October 05, 2018, 11:02:21 AM

Can we go back to farcical aquatic ceremonies?

Title: Re: The once and future queen
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 05, 2018, 11:19:43 AM

Quote from: Rhiannon on October 05, 2018, 11:02:21 AM

Can we go back to farcical aquatic ceremonies?

Something like Trump in a Russian hotel room?

Title: Re: The once and future queen
Post by: Rhiannon on October 05, 2018, 12:01:21 PM

Quote from: Nearly Sane on October 05, 2018, 11:19:43 AM

Something like Trump in a Russian hotel room?

Not quite what I was envisaging.

Title: Re: The once and future queen
Post by: Anchorman on October 05, 2018, 12:26:57 PM

https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/usbiography/a/arthur.html Look, you lot; , Arthur was (probably) Scottish in origin. And we're not talking deep fried Mars Bars either.