tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783969302315257415.post5435454545724894424..comments2024-03-16T01:00:19.876-05:00Comments on The Mad Monarchist: Mad Rant: Powerless Peers and Snotty SenatorsMadMonarchisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08083008336883267870noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783969302315257415.post-76914416974565230502015-03-19T21:46:36.968-05:002015-03-19T21:46:36.968-05:00Not only does the upper house should have the righ...Not only does the upper house should have the right of veto (they don't now) tge most important thing is that HM has the right of veto and can dismiss and appoint peers at her willTeo Wei Pinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09980353390013234644noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783969302315257415.post-67583244870280206212010-03-15T23:09:55.921-05:002010-03-15T23:09:55.921-05:00Lets not forge that this really is all about grant...Lets not forge that this really is all about granting more power to the Politicians, which is what modern "Democracy" means. And hey do want more power. It is pretext that gives them absolute control.ZAROVEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17668854596329493360noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783969302315257415.post-105149339417817142010-03-15T21:18:27.284-05:002010-03-15T21:18:27.284-05:00In regards to the vanity accusations I was referri...In regards to the vanity accusations I was referring to things like the PoW simplifying the coronation or other such things -a future King William could hardly go back to the full pomp and ceremony without attracting criticism. As far as the Commons restoring the Lords, as you say, they would be accused of all sorts of stuff which the libs are counting on by bringing this up but it today's climate it would be hard for me to imagine the Commons under any party actually wanting to limit their own power by a restoration of the lords.MadMonarchisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08083008336883267870noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783969302315257415.post-91680007540867869622010-03-15T20:33:55.406-05:002010-03-15T20:33:55.406-05:00As a quick addendum, Gerald Warner writes a very h...As a quick addendum, Gerald Warner writes a very harsh review of the plan (and agrees with me that the Tories won't shred the plan in pursuit of "modernity").<br /><br />http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/geraldwarner/100030024/forget-the-lords-its-the-commons-the-public-intends-to-neuter-by-electing-a-hung-parliament/<br /><br />It is telling that he says the hereditary peers were unmired by the expenses scandal, and yet they are the ones slated for abolition. Truly, Britain will have an exemplary and transparent Parliament once this reform is past.<br /><br />/End sarcasm protocol test.<br /><br />Good luck to the British to vote in a hung Commons. It's about time that chamber got its arse kicked.Professor Lhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00659779116600213901noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783969302315257415.post-80611851485614958522010-03-15T20:23:41.580-05:002010-03-15T20:23:41.580-05:00It is a wedge tactic (much like republicanism here...It is a wedge tactic (much like republicanism here in Australia split the Liberals. The Nationals gave Labor the finger, naturally). And undoubtedly it will be approved by the intelligentsia.<br /><br />However, you are wrong on the matter of restorations. If a Prime Minister chooses to restore the Lords, then he restores power to others, and not himself. Thus, he himself is not benefiting, and thus the issues of him being vainglorious does not exist (overly reactionary is what he'd be called, and in that case, they'd do well to give the hecklers the two-fingered salute!).<br /><br />The entire think is pathetic though. The Commons is the House in desperate need of reform, not the Lords. And yet, the replacement house would have recall elections for incompetence and a quota system to satisfy the PC crowd (even if it means someone with 5 votes gets in ahead of someone with 500,000! This isn't a joke - at the Sydney Uni SRC elections two years ago, the there were only three female candidates, and three positions reserved for women. They didn't even get voted, and only the Liberals said "This ain't right". Everyone else said "More women need to run!" It's anti-democratic to have such a system). Basically, everything the Left would want, only not in the Commons.<br /><br />The expenses scandal has shown that the Commons needs a kick up the arse, but no one can do it. There is no check against its power. The Lords can't stop them, the Queen can't (or won't - too afraid of controversy), and the courts are hamstrung by all the treaties that the government signs and ratifies in spite of them being treason (Lisbon Treaty, anyone?).<br /><br />Combined with demographic trends and cultural decay, the English especially (but also the Scottish and Welsh) will detest the Commons so much that it loses its legitimacy, and once it loses legitimacy, it will devolve into tyranny in order to preserve its grip on power.<br /><br />A slow Cromwellian revolution seems to be going on here. One wonders when the Puritans will finish outlawing Englishness (since they've already started).Professor Lhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00659779116600213901noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783969302315257415.post-33050042926426974232010-03-15T15:05:06.677-05:002010-03-15T15:05:06.677-05:00One of my favorite authors, (the shots in this pie...One of my favorite authors, (the shots in this piece aside) worthy of all the praise he has been given for Gunga-Din alone -in my opinion anyway.MadMonarchisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08083008336883267870noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783969302315257415.post-76019101595950974932010-03-15T13:47:23.208-05:002010-03-15T13:47:23.208-05:00This Reminds me of Kipling.
Ulster, 1912.
(“Thei...This Reminds me of Kipling.<br /><br />Ulster, 1912.<br /><br />(“Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works are works of iniquity and the act of violence is in their hands.”<br />—Isaiah lix. 6.)<br /><br />The dark eleventh hour<br />Draws on and sees us sold<br />To every evil power<br />We fought against of old -<br />Rebellion, rapine, hate,<br />Oppression, wrong and greed<br />Are loosed to rule our fate<br />By England's art and deed.<br /><br />The faith in which we stand,<br />The laws we made and guard,<br />Our honour, lives, and land<br />Are given for reward<br />To murder done by night<br />To treason taught by day,<br />To folly, sloth, and spite,<br />And we are thrust away.<br /><br />The blood our fathers spilt,<br />Our love, our toils, our pains<br />Are counted us for guilt<br />And only bind our chains -<br />Before an Empire's eyes<br />The traitor claims his price.<br />What need of further lies?<br />We are the sacrifice.<br /><br />We know the war prepared<br />On ever peaceful home<br />We know the hells prepared<br />For such as serve not Rome<br />The terror, threats, and bread<br />In market, hearth, and field -<br />We know, when all is said,<br />We perish if we yield.<br /><br />Believe we dare not boast,<br />Believe we dare not fear:<br />We stand to pay the cost<br />In all that men hold dear.<br />What answer from the North?<br />One Law, One Land, One Throne!<br />If England drives us forth<br />We shall not fall alone.ZAROVEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17668854596329493360noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783969302315257415.post-52690602441530072502010-03-15T03:18:41.004-05:002010-03-15T03:18:41.004-05:00Indeed it is so. Such is why you can point to ever...Indeed it is so. Such is why you can point to every marxist/socialist/whathaveyou state in the world and their utter failures and yet still they press it as *the* answer because it just looks so good on paper. Yet it is the monarchists who are dismissed as the hopeless romantics.<br /><br />Sink me! At this rate we may need to resurrect Sir Percy to fly to the rescue of the British aristocracy...MadMonarchisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08083008336883267870noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8783969302315257415.post-78800789924169464062010-03-15T02:55:13.068-05:002010-03-15T02:55:13.068-05:00In all my talks with Modernists, Real World exampl...In all my talks with Modernists, Real World examples do nothing to sway them. Its all about the Theory. People who insist that its woronmg to let peopel be in Power who were not elected, and dredge up claism of how those who are not elected are tyrannical feinds who want to Oppress the Masses, cling to that Myth no matter how many examples to couner it you bring, for they can shore it uo wth examples of their own and its their myth. Meanwhile, you can show them the Failure of all Elected ystems and they still dont care.<br /><br />Its about the Idal, and thats all they see.<br /><br /><br />The Abolition of the Lords is about insalling an Ideal, a Dream, and o on cares about the Reality, for the Dream has Secured their hearts, and thus theu no longer use their heads.ZAROVEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17668854596329493360noreply@blogger.com