HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world to UKCasual@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoWhat's that he won't like?lemmy.worldimagemessage-square35fedilinkarrow-up1145arrow-down16
arrow-up1139arrow-down1imageWhat's that he won't like?lemmy.worldHonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world to UKCasual@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square35fedilink
minus-square3arn0wl@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-21 year agoYes, I can understand that, but he’s been a lead voice on the environment a lot longer than most. I guess he’s swapped his beliefs & scruples for the trappings of monarchy, and that diminishes him rather than elivates him in my eyes.
minus-squareJackthelad@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 year agoYou expected him to be making political statements as the monarch? The only reason the monarchy still exists is because the head of it remains apolitical.
minus-square3arn0wl@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoI guess I had some inchoate expectation that he’d be more influential. Sunak’s just turned him into a hypocrite.
minus-squareJackthelad@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoI generally don’t want some bloke who is only there through accident of birth to have any influence on policy. Who voted for him to have influence?
minus-square3arn0wl@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoI’d support constitutional reform.
minus-squareReCursing@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoAnd that’s the least bad thing Sunak has done this week!
Yes, I can understand that, but he’s been a lead voice on the environment a lot longer than most. I guess he’s swapped his beliefs & scruples for the trappings of monarchy, and that diminishes him rather than elivates him in my eyes.
You expected him to be making political statements as the monarch?
The only reason the monarchy still exists is because the head of it remains apolitical.
I guess I had some inchoate expectation that he’d be more influential. Sunak’s just turned him into a hypocrite.
I generally don’t want some bloke who is only there through accident of birth to have any influence on policy.
Who voted for him to have influence?
I’d support constitutional reform.
And that’s the least bad thing Sunak has done this week!