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(19,465 posts)chowder66
(9,045 posts)trueblue2007
(17,187 posts)herding cats
(19,558 posts)Shy, to a fault actually.
Falcata
(156 posts)son was restored Charles executioners were hunted down all over the world and executed. Cromwell was exhumed, beheaded and his bones were hung up.
defacto7
(13,485 posts)Hmmm... interesting possibilities!
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)Anyone that ignored and did not truthfully obey a Congressional summons to testify should get another one, with immediate prison being the consequence or not testifying or lying.
defacto7
(13,485 posts)But the fantacy of hunting them down, the hanging of bones.... it's cathartic.
GeoWilliam750
(2,521 posts)Who died not long after the execution.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Brandon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Execution_of_Charles_I#Executioner_of_Charles_I
Wounded Bear
(58,584 posts)Blue_true
(31,261 posts)If she cancels it to help Johnson do Brexit, that would be a gross mistake. If she cancels it to keep the UK in the EU, she will likely go down as the greatest monarch in the country's history.
Wounded Bear
(58,584 posts)I don't understand British politics much, so I can comment on whether that helps or hurts any one side or action.
Perhaps I was misinformed.
I was just kidding, of course. I believe beheading is no longer a tool of the English government.
DavidDvorkin
(19,465 posts)A lot of the old powers may still be there, on paper, but the system requires that she not exercise them.
Hekate
(90,515 posts)Buckeyeblue
(5,499 posts)The PM goes to the queen with a request and she must say yes. Besides, this is taking the heat off her baby, Randy Andy.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,262 posts)He canceled parliament in November 1685, and it didn't meet again until he'd been overthrown in 1688. James' daughter and son-in-law, who overthrew him, did try a couple of sudden prorogations in their first couple of years (followed by new parliaments, rather than nothing, like James), but quickly learned that parliament was now sovereign: https://academic.oup.com/ereh/article/22/3/261/4824864