re: #273 Ziggy_TARDIS

Queen could in theory fuck this whole process up.

I think she could decline to Royal Assent, and some other things. However, the last time this was done was 308 years ago, by Queen Anne (Who I am related to through the larger Stewart family).

Interesting, I wondered about that. Since the people most likely to have backed Brexit are also most likely to be staunch monarchists (old white people) it would definitely be a gamble for her to void the bill. On the other hand it could cement the Royal Family’s popularity with younger generations for decades to come, demonstrating the real world safety fuse they represent on populist insanity. Risky either way but it might be the smartest play, because if she does nothing the UK is almost certain to lose Scotland before long. Good odds that Scotland goes independent anyway, but she might earn a decisive amount of goodwill there by taking a stand in support of how they voted. Especially if she words her statement right and makes it clear that she’s withholding assent because such a monumental change shouldn’t take place when every single region within an entire country in the Kingdom voted against it. Same thing with Northern Ireland, she can make the case that Brexit’s trigger was set ridiculously low and that old white Englishmen no longer get to decide matters of such importance for other members of the nation.