Now that’s an image of a broken humanity.
King’s Speech: What policies made it in and what’s been removed?
Submitted 1 year ago by thehatfox@lemmy.world to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk
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iHUNTcriminals@lemm.ee 1 year ago
thehatfox@lemmy.world 1 year ago
A man dressed in ermine robes and a bejewelled crown, sitting on a golden throne, announcing plans to tackle a cost of living crisis.
Recent events have brought a lot more attention to the monarchy, I would hope that would make more people think about that juxtaposition.
HumanPenguin@feddit.uk 1 year ago
I don’t know. Using a 7th hand piece of old furniture. A hand me down robe made for his grandfather when his mother had a new one made to fit her. And a 177 year old hat. Sorta seems to meet the ideal of the cost of living. If little else dose.
Its not like the UK selling of such history is going to make any measurable difference to the lives of people today. While it will prevent future generations from looking at their past even if we ever dump the royal family.
MataVatnik@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I thought the king was just a figure head that brings in tourist tax dollars
br3d@lemmy.world 1 year ago
He’s also a figurehead who announces whatever the government of the day tell him to accounce
CurlyMoustache@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Same as here. The monarchy is just for show, but it (sadly) has support by the public.
I want to get rid of it, and make it so that a prime minister is the “highest office” we have. That office has not too much power because everything has to go through the Parliament. No need for useless monarchs or presidents that are just for show.
frazorth@feddit.uk 1 year ago
I want to get rid of it, and make it so that a prime minister is the “highest office” we have.
Fuck that.
If drop the current head of state then I’ll want some from of elected representative, not a pop contest from a bunch of MPs who would pick it based upon whoever gave them the largest donation tell them to vote. We’ve had how many prime minister’s in the past few years? The PM position is a joke.
We need to drop the house of lords and replace with a secondary house populated by an alternative cross section than the current MPs, and both need to represent the UK. England needs its own legislative distinct from the others in the same way that Scotland, Ireland and Wales do.
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 1 year ago
May as well get rid of Christmas if you want to ban fun and cultural traditions, in that case.
HumanPenguin@feddit.uk 1 year ago
Yes. That why he is being used as a figure head to announce the policies of an elected (if shit) government.
Figure heads were created to portray an image at the front of the ship.
Our constitutiona. Democracy keeps it to portray ann image of stability. (Well historically its cos parliment did of Cromwell was to scared to make a change. He lacked of national support for. Given the actions of that parliment post revolution and beheading. Hardly surprising he lost a lot of common support).
But the reason the UK has never successfully tried to remove the Crown since (yet), is that the soft power of such a long term monarch has been huge. Now with Charles support is moving away. Still far from definite that he will be removed. But way more support then in the past 70 years.
Personally I’m not to concerned either way. I can see both sides. But I’d be stunned if Charles ever gets replaced.
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 1 year ago
There’s very little to gain from a Republic and so much to lose, including a core part of our national identity. People around the world admire our monarchy and funny way of doing things, even if they seem archaic to us.
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 1 year ago
Yep. The government wrote the speech. He was just addressing the Lords and the Public about his government’s intentions.
Syldon@feddit.uk 1 year ago
Plans to ban smoking is a stupid one. Prohibition never has worked and never will. More are moving to vaping anyways. You have to ask why vaping was not included in this.
The ban on no fault evictions has a stay added until the loop hole can be added.
The ban on leaseholds is credible. Leaseholds are just a con to make home ownership a subscription scheme. I do not understand why flats are excused. It is very easy to add a tenancy agreement. This does not need to be leasehold.
Oil and gas licensing is just another scheme to rob the country of money. People want a focus on the climate. This is just a lead balloon.
Tougher prison sentences are a joke when we have to release prisoners early now because they are at capacity. Where was the funding to build these prisons?
Self driving vehicles looks like it is having loop holes added. Now we know why Musk was invited to the AI conference.
The football regulator remains to be seen, but I have no trust the Tories can actually get anything right, or do it without expecting a backhander.
National holocaust memorial? why. Are we going to have one for the many other atrocities that have happened in history? I could understand this being suggested in the 1940’s, but atm it is just a popularity stunt. Someone needs to point out that the British were the inventors of concentration camps.
Great British railways just sounds like another sell off project. It is just a stunt to make nationalising the railways more expensive when labour come to power.
Plans to introduce new codes for Netflix is a joke. Ofcom is a joke and a waste of tax payers money. They do not enforce the current laws.
So all in all the only good I see is the leasehold law. And yet you have to ask would the Tories actually deliver? Sunak has abandoned the Tory manifesto for his own ideas. They are a party that are holding onto power after having conned the public to vote for them.
autotldr@lemmings.world [bot] 1 year ago
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Rishi Sunak is hoping to make law and order a key election battleground with a series of measures promising tougher sentences for killers, rapists and grooming gang ringleaders.
The prime minister has also used the King’s Speech in parliament to create a dividing line with Labour on climate change, with a new law bringing in annual oil and gas licensing in the North Sea.
The King’s Speech also confirm plans to ban young people from smoking – with the PM aiming to stop children who turn 14 this year and those younger from ever legally buying cigarettes in England.
The plan will deliver on already-announced proposals for killers convicted of the most horrific murders to expect whole life orders – meaning they will never be released – while rapists and other serious sexual offenders will not be let out early from prison sentences.
However, as levelling up secretary Michael Gove said last month, the government will not abolish section 21 evictions until “new court process” can speed up decisions – a move sparking outrage among campaigners who fear it kicks the vital change into the long grass.
Ditching the promise has prompted anger among some Tory MPs, including Alicia Kearns and ex-minister Dehenna Davison – with backbenchers plotting to bring it to parliament anyway.
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TWeaK@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Why should the government be regulating football?
tal@lemmy.today 1 year ago
That does sound strange.
googles
This has more.
bloomberg.com/…/uk-to-set-up-football-regulator-t…
Hmm.
Well, from that, sounds like it’s either a crowd-pleaser for people worried about their favorite team going under or protectionism against international leagues.
tal@lemmy.today 1 year ago
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Super_League
TWeaK@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I’m not worried about what it will start out as, I’m worried about what it might become.
Football already has independent regulatory bodies, it doesn’t need a government regulatory body - it needs legislation to stop all the fraud and bribery that the current bodies commit, not a new body that funnels bribes to politicians.