2024-12-28
The King has delivered his Christmas Message to the nation - so where are we now?
Just as this site doesn't do party politics, we don't do religious division, which stands a high chance of immediate degeneration into arguments over religious dogma. We prefer arguments over evidence and logic, and whilst we recognise that hard undisputed evidence may sometimes be in short supply, logic suffers no such shortfall.
This little video was created by a Christian of the Catholic denomination (I assume Roman Catholic). In our historically Protestant country, Catholics, like anybody else of any faith or none, may yet speak the truth!
Here we find matters of faith interacting with matters of Constitution and Democracy - so a triply complex maze to be navigated, especially where such matters are indeed confounded by varying degrees of uncertainty and indeed dispute.
So it's up to each of us to make of his remarks what we will, as best we may.
Does it matter what the King says?
Well, our Monarch is our Head of State. Ultimately, no Act of Parliament stands without his Assent, the Judges judge in his name, and it is to the Monarch that the Armed Forces swear their allegiance - he is the pinnacle of the established power structures of the Kingdom.
Unlike a President, the Monarch, although he may abdicate, cannot be deposed except by some form of coercion (for example, when invasion by William of Orange coupled with inaction by the English army, persuaded King James II to flee to France, thus ushering in the "Glorious Revolution").
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