Does the Queen of England have teh right to nuclear weapons?

Does she?

Doesn't she control the British football?

Only if dinner isn't quite right!

She has the right, by virtue of God.


So fuck you

Yes, but when she uses them (against newspaper editors in France who print unflattering photos of the royal family, for example), does she hold her little pinky up while she presses the button, and sternly say: "We are not amused"?

If she doesn't, then I think she is in violation of some kind of international treaty or something. Or at least, she should be...

Please refer to "fuck you".

The Queen does not hold her pinky up. She has someone else hold their pinky up on her behalf.

Technically as Sovereign and Supreme commander of the British military YES she does. She could order the invasion of France tomorrow, and although Parliament would scream like 10 year old girls, there wouldn't be much they could do to stop it. As it stands, everything is exercised IN HER NAME, but being as there is no constitution, there is really NOTHING but precedent to stop her from exercising something like that on her own. That's why you Brits should be peeing your pants when Charles assumes the throne, unless she outlives him.

Charles will hopefully be the end of the monarchy, the buffoon that he is. At least the old bag on the throne at the minute has a bit of dignity in how she does things.

Also, question for you. When was the house of Wessex or their descendents divinely appointed to rule anyone?

You crack me up, big lad.

Never drop the facade, it would ruin the joke.

I thought her hats were Britain's last line of defense nukes.

When God placed them on the throne.

Please do tell me? Who is your military more apt to take an order from if you had a standoff between the PM ordering one thing and the Queen (in an unblemished speech) another?

Was that when the first Wessex took charge of his petty tribe, probably by killing the old leader? Or when Athelstan defeated his enemies in 927 and became the first king of England? What exactly did God do?
Or to put it another way, if I kill the current monarch and am strong enough to assume her powers, does that constitute God "placing me" on the throne?

Because that's fucking stupid.

Yes.

I don't know. I wasn't there. I'm not that old. God made his choice, not me.

If you "don't know", then why did you claim that it happened?

It matters not. She is your Queen.

We really need to do some kind of experiment, maybe get the Queen to order the invasion of a pissy little nation no one would really care about were it invaded - Belgium perhaps - and see what occurs.

This sounds like an excellent idea. But invade Greece instead. That way, the rest of Europe would even be relieved at the idea, because not only could the British run the place much better than the Greeks have been doing, they could also introduce a civilized language...

Are you insane?

They'd assume she was dolally and someone would sedate her.

^ dolally?????

Uh huh. This is what would happen- YES MY QUEEN.

P.S. No one would sedate her because you aren't allowed to "touch" the sovereign without her explicit or implicit consent.

Why the fuck did you turn guys turn this thread into a serious thread?

As a person of God, I take such things "on faith."

Bibbledy-fluh.

Happens to the best of us, Baba.

Actually, there is a constitution, its just not enshrined in one document.....and she doesn't have that power because everything is in her name. Its because of a constitutional concept known as the royal prerogative. However, what this means is that the governmrnt of the day can go to war without a Parliamentary vote. By convention the monarch cannot and will not delcare war of her own accord.....and one needs to remember that the monarchy only exists today, and only has done since the civil war, by virtue of the authority of Parliament. Parliament is the sovereign power, so the reality is that by allowing the royal prerogative parliament is actually pre-emptively aurthorising the government of the day to go to war when it see fit, and that this power primarily exists so that in emergency situations the governemnt doesn't have to piss around having a debate with opposition parties.

No such event would happen for the reasons I have stated above.

When I see the words "on faith", I read them as "on nothing".

Congragulations. You base your entire political philosophy on nothing.