Quote Originally Posted by HoreTore View Post
Yes, if the King does not want to abdicate, the guillotine will have to do it for him. It is my firm belief that every dictator should be shot.
Yes I know, so enough with the mock outrage please. You want to kill monarchs, I compared that to killing Republicans. Really, all this pent up hatred isn't healthy. Just pension them off somewhere.

As Beskar has pointed out, this argument is rubbish. Why on earth do we have to have a president like the US, why can't we have one like Germany does? Germany's president is paid, as far as I know, about the same as other german politicians. Could you please explain just why that option isn't possible for us...?
Can you remember the name of Germany's president? Your King is high visibility for (relavely) low cost, you can't get that level of visability internationally for as low a cost with a president.

It was pretty damn embarrasing for Britain when you found out that Labour had been selling titles too. Should that scandal have been kept in the closet too...?
Yes, but it's no longer relevent, because it only reflected badly on Blair, not the Queen, and now the issue is gone like so much smoke. Royal scandals stick around for years, monetory ones for decades. Mark my words, Sarah Ferguson will never recover from her recent blunder.

It is our national interest to ensure that those entrusted with power and prestige on behalf of our population uses it for the purpose it is intended, not to enrich themselves. High profile corruption cases will scare others from doing so. So in fact, it is very much in our interest to have our king cast down as a corrupt imbecile; it will prove once and for to everyone that nobody is above the law.
Except...he's your King and I very much expect that your State is almost as vested in him as our is in our Queen. The scandal would (probably) be of little actual political import (unlike the cash-for honours one which involved not just money but power) and would hang around like a bad smell.

They did not pass a law, they made an excemption. And an excemption made based on connections and face-value is what we usually term camaraderie and corruption. If a politician had done something like that he'd have to clear his desk by the end of the day, never to return to politics again. Åslaug Haga had to withdraw as both leader of the centre party and as Minister of Local Government and Regional Development after a couple of minor building code violations and a few thousand NOK in unpaid taxes(that she didn't know she had to pay). They would've teared her a new one if she had used her political connections to build a summer retreat near the beach. And rightly so!
Well, ultimately it is the responsibility of the King to disipline his heir, or disinherit him. Still, if the King is as universally loathed as you suggest he probably doesn't feel much responsibility toward his subjects.



I had absolutely no problem with hanging Saddam, nor would I object to whacking OBL, Karzai or Mullah Omar. Any and every dictator should be shot. Those who put themselves above the law should not be protected by the law.[/QUOTE]