Not sure the monarchy can be seen as a guardrail against anything.
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It depends on if you trust the monarch IMO
aug 31, 2025, 1:04 pm • 0 0 • view
Not really. More like: does the monarch have any actual powers of intervention left, in a crisis? To which the answer is probably: no. Or at least, not, without provoking a constitutional crisis of its own.
aug 31, 2025, 2:16 pm • 1 0 • view
That’s not what I read
aug 31, 2025, 2:46 pm • 0 0 • view
aug 31, 2025, 2:56 pm • 0 0 • view
“No monarch has done this in 300 years” is not a very strong statement for I’m sitting in a nation in peril that’s breaking all kinds of things
aug 31, 2025, 2:59 pm • 1 0 • view
Can’t speak for DAG, but I suspect he thinks monarch intervention quite unlikely, depending on the crisis of course. And likely to cause issues of its own. But yes, in extremis, who can say?
aug 31, 2025, 3:01 pm • 1 0 • view
I guess we’re back to asking how much we trust the monarch. Nevertheless, it still sounds like some more guardrails are in order for the UK.
aug 31, 2025, 3:09 pm • 2 0 • view