So the unelected head of state has no powers?

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It's often claimed that the monarch has no real powers...

Well it appears that isn't true...

Especially when it comes to her own interests!

Queen vetted 67 laws before Scottish parliament could pass them

"The Scottish government has given the Queen advanced access to at least 67 parliamentary bills deemed to affect her public powers, private property or personal interests under an arcane custom inherited from Westminster.
The Queen’s consent procedure, which critics have called anti-democratic, has been used repeatedly by the monarch in recent decades to secretly lobby for changes to proposed UK legislation before it is passed by parliament."

Moreover...

"More than 1,000 laws have been vetted by the Queen or Prince Charles through a secretive procedure before they were approved by the UK’s elected members of parliament.
The huge number of laws subject to royal vetting cover matters ranging from justice, social security, pensions, race relations and food policy through to obscure rules on car parking charges and hovercraft."

Is that 'Taking back control'? :rolleyes:
 
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It's always been the case that the monarch has to sign off new bills.
Just a formality but still there.
 
It's always been the case that the monarch has to sign off new bills.
Just a formality but still there.
Sign off is one thing...

Altering them is something totally different...

Which bit of 'vetted' do you not understand?
 
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Sign off is one thing...

Altering them is something totally different...

Which bit of 'vetted' do you not understand?
Calm down, dear.
Sign off doesn't mean put a signature at the bottom without looking at it.
If the monarch thinks that the bill is not good enough, she can send it back with recommendations to amend.
Happy now?
 
I can't believe she doesn't, just on the odd occasion, say 'oh, sod it', and just shuffle the papers and put them back in the box.
 
Time for a Republic.
Sadly there are too many ignorant subservients in the UK to follow the French approach...

They welcome serfdom rather than thinking for themselves...

As can be witnessed in this thread!
 
Sign off doesn't mean put a signature at the bottom without looking at it.
If the monarch thinks that the bill is not good enough, she can send it back with recommendations to amend.
Thus affirming the fact that an unelected head of state has the power to overrule an elected government in a 'parliamentary democracy'...

Are you 'Happy' with that?
 
Sadly there are too many ignorant subservients in the UK to follow the French approach...

They welcome serfdom rather than thinking for themselves...

As can be witnessed in this thread!

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This is every RWR on here.
 
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