re: #83 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

the referendum but if the Queen openly approved of it, it would send a signal

Yeahbut … might also destroy the monarchy. In the “too good to check” department, the last time the monarch directly influenced legislation was when Queen Victoria refused to make lesbian activity illegal, apparently because she didn’t believe it, so for about a century male homosexual acts were illegal but not female.

That’s kind of funny, but note that in England adult (over 21) gay men committed a crime every time they committed “gross indecency” until 1967; even after that, it remained a crime to have a three-way or have sex in a hotel room. Things have gradually got better since, in England and the rest of the UK, largely thanks to … European Human Rights law. Which of course brings us back to Brexit.