re: #204 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

British society has been about the Monarchy tolerating the aristocracy because they not only kept the peasant masses in check, they actually harnessed the lower classes’ incoherent rage to support their colonial and military ambitions.

But now things have gone all pear-shaped for the monarchy, and the coddled upper-class pricks who pushed Brexit with a busload of lies are now fleeing back to their country estates and hiding behind the topiary hedges…

They’ve got several more firebreaks than we do. If a bill to invoke Article 50 and begin negotiations to leave the EU passes Commons (and the referendum was only advisory—if the two parties stick together no one would suffer disproportionately from not obeying it) the Lords could and would still veto it.

Nowadays that’s not a deal breaker—they could send the bill straight to the Queen for her signature. Would she sign it? Would they decide that in the 21st Century, they really don’t need her signature? Yeah, probably—but that’s a huge step, because it would be the end of the Monarchy.

There’s just so much friction that I think there’s a good chance Brexit never transpires.