Tim
11/30/2009 10:08:00 PM
On Dec 1, 10:31 am, The Black Marvel <congyog...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Nov 30, 3:54 pm, Tim <Lovell-Sm...@Xtra.co.nz> wrote:
>
> > On Dec 1, 3:30 am, The Black Marvel <congyog...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > Apparently there was some misunderstanding about my comments vis a vis
> > > Margaret Thatcher; I doubt this would do anything to hurt her
> > > political career. Indeed, I think given the opportunity, she'd have
> > > run with the Queen's murder, especially as it comes when she's at the
> > > peak of her own popularity just after the Falklands War. Could Britain
> > > swing towards a surveillance state a few decades early?
>
> > Yep - I agree with you - just after the Falklands, Maggie will be in
> > her element - a firm hand at the head of state, them bloody Irish
> > again to blame things on - expect draconian `security' measures.
> > Expect fun and games with George VII and Maggie over their weekly(?)
> > meetings. A meeting of minds. Not.
>
> I don't think the new monarch (Charles III, shirley? Not a name with a
> great precedent, admittedly) is going to give Maggie any serious
> trouble. Between the recent upheavals of Mountbatten's murder, his
> marriage, his mother's murder, and just becoming a father, I doubt
> he'll stand in her way, whatever she has in mind. Hmm. National ID
> cards, maybe?
>
Nope. his regnal name will be George (vaguely remember somewhere
something to that effect - admiration for his grandfather rather than
the other Georges -
Charles is just tooo Stuartish (as with James)
If I was him which I'm not, apart from having long hair to cover the
ears, I'd go for Henry IX...