Comment on Today is the birthday of His Majesty the King

Zombie@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  British citizens as His Majesty’s subjects bear true allegiance to His Majesty King Charles the Third, his Heirs and Successors according to law. Feddit.UK’s intended audience is His Majesty’s subjects within the United Kingdom, although I’m sure anyone is welcome.

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  • earlstilt@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    No, no we don’t

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    • Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      So you don’t obey the law?

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      • blackn1ght@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        British citizens as His Majesty’s subjects bear true allegiance to His Majesty King

        The vast majority of us don’t do this, no.

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      • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Like Prince Andrew?

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  • flamingos@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    This is an impressive amount of trolling, even for you Flax.

    Feddit.UK’s intended audience is His Majesty’s subjects within the United Kingdom

    No. The monarch doesn’t own me and I refuse to owe it anything. Hopefully one day the British state will get rid of the embarrassment of being headed by a family of nepo babies.

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    • Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Hopefully one day the British state will get rid of the embarrassment of being headed by a family of nepo babies.

      President Farage, anyone?

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      • flamingos@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        That’s not worse the Prime Minister Farage, which could be the case come 2029, so I don’t see your point.

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      • moderatecentrist@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Reform UK is only supported by about a third of the electorate at the moment. More than any other single party, but if there was an election for a British head of state, and that election ended up being a choice between Farage and one other person, Farage could very well lose.

        Also you said in another post that “President Farage could remove elections”. I think that if we have an elected head of state then they should only have similar powers to what the King has now. Parliament should still be sovereign.

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  • moderatecentrist@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I think one of the best aspects of the UK is political freedom. Perhaps I am a subject of the King (I don’t know if that’s legally true but it might be), but in any case, I can still say that I hope the UK will get rid of the monarchy and replace it with a democratically elected head of state.

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    • Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Ah yes, British democracy. The bringer of Brexit, Boris Johnson. The mess we are in now cannot at all be blamed on His Majesty the King or her late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, but on the democratically ruling public. Sure, democracy in it’s current form is definitely good for keeping the government to account, (a ranked choice system would be nice but that was democratically rejected in a refurrendum) but I do not trust the British public with selecting a head of state at all. America already made a pigs ear of it, the only country that seems to do it decently off the top of my head is Ireland, which has been rather untouched by populism and has a population of 5.4 million. And even then, I wouldn’t be surprised if they elect a knobhead at some point.

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