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brf-rumortrackinganon · 2 days

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But do you really think that he can be voted head of Commonwealth ? I remember how Gabon was mad after their docuseries implied that CW was the Empire 2.0 saying that they willingly came in but not to be insulted or something. And it seemed to me that this scheme about Harry, Meghan and the CW was dead because their tours in the CW were disastrous and because their discourse with the CW was too much Empire/decolonisation centred (during the pandemic ?) and the CW didn't like that.

Some people are also suggesting that Harry is going for an african coutry because Earthshot is going to South Africa this year (like his visit in NYC when it was in Boston or his visit in Singapore last year). So now I'm wondering, do you think he tried with South Africa but was said no ?

It's possible Harry could be voted the head of the Commonwealth but it's very unlikely. While there doesn't seem to an officially-documented process or a formal rule for who is eligible to be head of Commonwealth, I did find this:

a) the head of the Commonwealth is not hereditary and there are no term limits.

b) Charles is the third monarch to be head of the Commonwealth (following King George and Queen Elizabeth).

c) selection of the head of the Commonwealth requires a majority vote from the Commonwealth heads of government (so all the prime ministers) and

d) "Head of Commonwealth" is part of the sovereign's title in the Commonwealth realms:

our Sovereign Lord, Charles III, now, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of His other Realms and Territories King, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith, and Sovereign of the Most Noble Order of the Garter

So it's an uphill battle for Harry (or Meghan) to be Head of Commonwealth because

It requires changing the King's titles and I don't think anyone wants to bother with that kind of administration. (Also I don't think anyone knows what kind of administration or paperwork is needed to do so in the first place.)

If William's poll numbers stay the same and he remains as popular as he is, it will be stupid AF for the Commonwealth to choose someone else as their head. They're not going to vote against King William, who's likely to be as popular and as beloved as Queen Elizabeth. And even if something happened and William was as controversial a choice as Charles was back in 2018, "better the devil you know than the devil you don't" comes to mind.

There's been a bit of leaking that Harry definitely approached South Africa after William and Earthshot announced Cape Town as their 2024 host. With the pattern anon pointed out, it definitely makes sense that Harry would try to get South Africa for something.

Which is really...ironic, I suppose, if you think about it. That even though he quit the royal family, he left the country, he made his own separate life for himself and his family, he's still demanding equal treatment to William. The entitlement just reeks.

#sussexes #waleses #brf #commonwealth

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autokratorissa · 1 year

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Charles Mountbatten-Windsor has been crowned, by the Grace of God, King of the United Kingdom and His other Realms. Great and egregious expense has gone towards the requisite magics, gone to pay for the actors and costumes required for performing the long-since written play. The ideological farce is done, and this walking survival sits anointed above the United Kingdom, this bastard monarchy unbefitting of the union of British nations it claims to be. Do not mistake the compliant client media and reprehensible political class for a true representation of the country: a great many of us are hungry and angry and want the whole thing burned to the ground. The pageantry is a distraction, as much for themselves as for anyone else. They rule atop a fragile semblance of order that, in the coming decades, will be pushed beyond its fettered limits by forces outside its control. But it is worth remembering that there was once a time when England dared to dream for something better, dared to fight, dared to win:— that there was once a time when England and the whole Isles was a republic, commonwealth, and free state.

A revolutionary army of the downtrodden and the oppressed fought for England to be free from kings and popes, for the wealth of this land to be held in common, for its leaders to belong to the people. This army defeated those who opposed it, both in revolutionary war to take power and in a coup d’état to purge the government of those who would not follow through on the victory. 374 years ago, a king of England, Scotland, and Ireland—a man the revolution called Charles Stuart, an act of glorious contempt to later be echoed by the lèse-majesté of the French address “Citizen Louis Capet”—was tried by a revolutionary tribunal for crimes against the people, found guilty of tyranny, treason, and murder, and executed. What ecstasy the common people must have felt that day! To see the heavens evaporate and all the possibilities of history open up to you now the divinely ordained tyranny was ended! To have sought the impossible and succeeded!

The tragedy of England is that her revolution died in its success: unable to cut the Gordian knot of the balancing act between aristocracy, bourgeoisie, and common people, and therefore unable to go far enough to secure its long-term survival by breaking the power of the nobility once and for all, the regime never found real stability, the radicals were sidelined, promises were broken, and all that had been achieved slowed to an inertia and a Restoration. But for a decade the British Isles were free from the stain of monarchy, and even at the last moment, as it all came crashing down around them, the loyal revolutionaries were willing to fight and tried to resist. The revolution ended, as it were, in the person of Daniel Axtell: a fervent revolutionary who had participated in the coup against the Long Parliament and served as captain of the guard during the trial of Charles Stuart, Axtell went to his death on the scaffold—went to be hung, drawn and quartered by the counterrevolution—unrepentant and proud, promising: ‘If I had a thousand lives, I could lay them all down for the Cause.’ The name of the Good Old Cause was still in the psyche of working-class politics in Britain as late as the nineteenth century and the Chartist movement.

How did it all come to this? Britain is a green and pleasant land, bleached white-yellow by the dying its masters have inflicted upon the earth; an island nation, fed by raging seas and rivers flowing off the snow-capped mountains and through the hedge-lined fields, that has been turned to a land of drought and shit-filled waterways; a rich country, grown fat off plunder and war and exploitation, in which a third of its children are malnourished; a country which led the world in rejecting the feudal order, in fighting for something new and free and good, which is today one of the most backwards regimes on earth and the most fragile and decrepit member of the imperialist chain that still encircles the world. Capitalism was born here. One day, it will die here. And when it does, the British people will have rediscovered the radicalism with which they once led history, and proclaimed again that their state will be a commonwealth, belonging to the working people, without a king or a house of lords. And when they do, we can look back and smile, knowing that we have relegated the likes of Charles and his palaces to oblivion. Should we ever get the chance, with delight and in the memory of those who came before us, we shall make no excuses for the terror, and for the republic: ‘We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror. But the royal terrorists, the terrorists by the grace of God and the law, are in practice brutal, disdainful, and mean, in theory cowardly, secretive, and deceitful, and in both respects disreputable.’

#history #politics #socialism #leftism #communism #marxism #charles iii #united kingdom of great britain and northern ireland

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starlightshadowsworld · 7 months

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British people who support Palestine.

Here is a link to a petition to get the UK government to put pressure onto Israel to allow aid into Gaza.

It's an official .gov petition which means once it reaches a certain amount of signitaures the government have to respond.

If you're not from the UK I'm afraid you can't sign but plz share regardless.

#uk #united kingdom #england #british #ireland #scotland #wales #northern ireland #great britain #britain #free palestine #free gaza #pro palestine #anti zionisim #anti israel #gaza strip #palestine

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crynwr-drwg · 8 months

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Genuinely whenever this cunt does another of these fucking threads, all I can think about is how much better it'd be if he was dead

#crynwrdrwg #uk #united kingdom #wales #welsh #england #english #Scotland #scottish #uk politics #uk news #gb #great britain #northern ireland #northern irish

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pluralzalpha · 1 year

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OK, what with the coronation coming up, I've seen quite a few posts about the UK, by people who don't quite understand the difference between the UK, Great Britain, England and so on.

Which is fair enough, because it is a bit complicated.

So here's some explanation.

The British Isles is a whole bunch of islands, but the main ones are those two big ones, Great Britain and Ireland.

Great Britain is divided into three countries: England, Scotland and Wales.

The island of Ireland is also divided. The northeastern six counties make up Northern Ireland, which is also sometimes referred to as Ulster, although the traditional province of Ulster is somewhat larger.

England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland make up the larger country of the United Kingdom, a sovereign state. The full name of the state is the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, but that's a bit of a mouthful, so generally it's the United Kingdom or the UK.

"Britain" can be used to mean either the island of Great Britain or the UK as a whole. Anyone from the UK is a British national (a Briton or Brit), although many Scots, Northern Irish, and some Welsh don't describe themselves as British because of their political position. There's a strong Scottish independence movement, and the situation in Ireland is complicated, to say the least.

It's very important to remember that England is not the same as Britain, Great Britain or the UK. It is merely part of it. A lot of people use England interchangeably with the broader terms, but this is wrong. Try going to Scotland and saying it's part of England and see how long it takes to get a smack in the face.

The rest of Ireland is an entirely separate country, a sovereign state in its own right. Its official name is simply Ireland, but it's often referred to by its official description, the Republic of Ireland (RoI) for clarity. It can also be called by its Irish name, Eire.

It's not unheard of for the Republic to be referred to as Southern Ireland, but this can cause a lot of offence, and in any case, it's by far the larger part of Ireland and actually reaches further north than Northern Ireland.

King Charles III has the title of King of the United Kingdom. The title King of England is archaic and hasn't actually been used for centuries. He is the sovereign of the UK and has nothing to do with RoI.

There are lots of smaller islands that are part of any of the five countries above, but there are also some more islands just to be confusing.

The Channel Islands aren't even in the map above, because they're closer to France, but they're often grouped in with the British Isles. The largest two, Jersey and Guernsey, are separate countries (Guernsey has some even smaller islands within its territory). They're what's left of the ancient Duchy of Normandy. There's also the Isle of Man, also called Mann, between Great Britain and Ireland.

These three are NOT part of the UK. They are Crown Dependencies, which means they essentially belong to the King, but have seperate governments. The UK has sovereignty over them though, and is responsible for their defence and representation internationally.

The UK and the Crown Dependencies are also legally known as the British Islands (not Isles, as this includes all of Ireland), but no one really uses this except in important international treaty stuff.

See? Perfectly straightforward...

#united kingdom #british isles #england #Scotland #wales #ireland #northern ireland #republic of ireland #guernsey #jersey #isle of man #great britain

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rabbitcruiser · 6 months

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Northern Ireland ceased to be part of the Irish Free State on December 8, 1922.

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tmarshconnors · 22 days

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🎉🇬🇧 Happy United Kingdom Day! 🇬🇧🎉

On this historic day, May 1st, we commemorate the birth of the United Kingdom. It was on this date in 1707 that the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland merged to form Great Britain. This union marked the beginning of a remarkable journey of unity, diversity, and shared identity.

Over the years, the UK has evolved, embracing the Kingdom of Ireland in 1801, followed by the establishment of the Province of Northern Ireland in 1922. As we mark this special occasion, let us reflect on the values of unity, resilience, and inclusivity that define us as a nation. Happy birthday, United Kingdom!

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pqk-jhonsy001 · 2 months

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The Kingdom

#united kingdom #great britain #northern ireland #kingdom #color #cool #map

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darlingbandit · 1 year

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Okay, I’ll jump on the poll bandwagon.

#Ireland #Scotland #Northern Ireland #Wales #United Kingdom #Great Britain #England #politics #poll #history

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ly0nstea · 2 years

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Real fucking cool of the Brits to turn two incredibly popular traditional Irish names into slurs by the way I mean what better way to kill a culture than literally demonise their names

#Ireland #northern ireland #england #fuck england #britain #great britain #uk #united kingdom

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autokratorissa · 2 years

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I'm generally unsympathetic to claims that the social diseases we see in contemporary liberal democracies are somehow new phenomena, neatly marking out a bad present from a good past (the rhetoric around Trump being the epitome of that kind of thinking), but there is something to be said for these things being symptomatic of decay. The political superstructure of much of the world is simply no longer fit for purpose, and this leads to an ever-increasing reliance upon extraordinary leaders to overcome, and more often simply obscure, the underlying fractures.

Boris Johnson is an excellent example: a single-issue, single-policy premier, he has postponed a deep, chronic crisis for the British state and the Conservative Party by winning a large parliamentary majority (something unheard of in recent British politics), but he has not avoided it. Nevertheless, the reliance of the party on the person makes them hesitant to remove him. The Tories' instinctual practice of serial regicide is, for the moment, apparently on hold. How long this hold will last is unclear. Thanks to the positively incestual relationship between the various state apparatuses in Britain, this time revealing itself in the form of glaring police corruption, it looks like it will last until after the next election. It's difficult to put into words how disgusting that is, how rage-inducing. I am, as ever, left at a loss for words by the repugnance of British politics.

The lockdown parties do speak of a culture of impunity, arrogance, and knowing malfeasance---of a downright contemptuous attitude towards us on the part of our rulers---but that culture only exists because of a structure which promotes it. The British political system is fundamentally unaccountable and based upon the absolute right of the elite to govern and the maximum possible distance between the population and political power, complete with an all-too modern compliant client media that ensures an uninformed consent is won from the populace. Aaron Bastani makes this point semi-regularly; that Britain is not and has never really been a democracy, at most a place with democratic elements in its politics. The mixing of this backwards relic of Britain's incomplete bourgeois revolution with modern populism is something the political system is unlikely to be able to survive and sustain, but it is forced into it because it acts as a stay of execution.

'The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters', as Gramsci famously said. Johnson is most certainly a monster. But one thing that cannot be denied is that he very much is the man of the hour; exactly the leader that a flailing ex-empire deserves at it gasps and splutters its way into oblivion. Our position as communists is simple: we refuse to let him drag us, laughing and self-assured to the last, into the abyss.

#tag: political #united kingdom of great britain and northern ireland #boris johnson

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yamnbananas · 2 years

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pressfreedomday · 20 days

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UNITED KINGDOM - Paul Mason & Moral Philosophy In Cyberspace Manifesto.

"For me the age of intelligent machines makes it more and more necessary for us to conduct a radical defence of the human being." Paul Mason, Moral Philosophy In Cyberspace Manifesto - UNESCO World Press Freedom Day / Spaceship Earth Premiere

Registration - Link 1 - Link 2

Contact: James Edward Marks and Taline Temizian

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#united kingdom #great britain #northern ireland #events #31st edition of world press freedom day #media worker #reporters #media reporters #world press freedom day #moral philosophy #cyberspace #award-winning broadcaster #Youtube

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crynwr-drwg · 1 year

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Hello! If you live in the UK could you please check out this petition? If you don't live here, if you could share I would appreciate it!

We want the Government to require energy suppliers to offer a fixed monthly rate, with no per unit charges, for gas and electricity, to elderly and disabled customers.

With the cost of living crisis I believe that the elderly and disabled are those most in need of support at this time. I believe the best course of action that the UK Government can take is to give these groups the right to an 'unmetered tariff' for both gas and electric, charged at a set rate per month. Doing so could help give that group the added security they most desperately need at this time.

You can be a minor and still sign! You don't have to be a citizen either, just a resident!

#wales #uk #united kingdom #england #great britain #scotland #gb #northern ireland #petition

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highretrogamelord · 4 months

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