As usual, we were way ahead of them. We decapitated King Charles 11 150 years before the French got round to guillotining a Louis or two. Oliver Cromwell did a great job heading up the subsequent English Republic.
Sooooooo, you reckon it's better to have a religious oligarch as head of state? Having the head of the national church being the head of state puts us on a par with; Vatican City and Iran I can't think of any other country that would be so medieval as to combine church and state so closely (that's before I even get to the unelected Anglican Bishops that make laws in the House of Lords )
Bib - Loving the signature. Hope it won't be too long until we hear the sweet sound that is the death rattle of Rangers FC (In Administration)
Autonomous region of another country - it's head of state is technically the Chinese President, I think.
In what way are we "backwards"? We are amongst the most liberal countries in the world. The people who would have us move backwards are , for example, those of immigrant religions: Catholics and Muslims who want to stop gays from getting married (or even existing in extreme cases).
As a Republican I feel pretty redundant these days, the UK is breaking itself apart without my intervention and half the Commonwealth are very nearly dumping the Monarch. Just sit back and enjoy the show really.
Name one Catholic country that has bishops in its law-making house. 26 Anglican bishops in the House of Lords make laws in this country. That's a kick in the arse off a ****ing theocracy. And that's backwards ya *****.
You don't find this slightly disturbing? please log in to view this image How about having no written constitution and the closest thing we do have is a document that specifies not that someone of a specific sect must be head of state but that only someone whoe ISN'T a specific sect can be head of state? This still all perfectly progressive?
Gay marriage - What's the ****ing point? Queers should leave Jesus freaks alone. End of story. A bunch of highly-strung ****s in dresses with beards and the gay community don't mix.
The UK is indeed one of the most liberal countries in the world but it's also has one of the most pronounced class structures. Growing up as Catholic in Belfast the 'upper class Catholics' were teachers and doctors who lived in the nicer areas than me, who spoke slightly softer than my own parents. As a naive 20 something moving to England I was quite shocked by how easy it was to group people I met into different classes. In the same office in London I'd meet Mr Boatright-Smith who talks like Prince Charles working with Jamil Jazzer who speaks like Ali G. Of course the double barrelled guy was nearly always the manager. Travelling around other parts of Europe and north America you find posh people everywhere you go but nothing as pronounced, nothing where people who live and work together have accents which sound like they were born 500 miles apart - and where the guy with the posh accent is always in charge. Maybe it is a bit of class envy but it's this aspect of Britain I dislike most, the part where it's who you are rather than what you are - the sense that some people are privileged enough to be in a position rather than have worked to achieve that position. In my head it's the Monarchy, the House of Lords and all those toff Generals who run the Armed Forces who seem as if they have been placed in those positions because of birthright rather than achievement.
In what way are we backwards? Having a few bishops in the House of Lords, so what? What backwards laws have the foisted upon us?
