In an effort to fix that which is not broken, Mr. Gordon Brown is also invoking the law of unintended consequences by trying to repeal the 1701 Act of Settlement, which prohibits Roman Catholics from having any claim to the throne.With his pointless zeal for mindlessly attacking "discrimination" without considering the reasons and ramifications for such discrimination, Mr. Brown has overlooked the fact that in doing so he would be deposing Her Majesty in favour of an obscure Bavarian duke.
Say what like against Mr. Brown, at least he's managed the hitherto impossible task of making Tony Blair look like the image of sober statesmanship.
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Actually, in Jacobite numbering, Franz Herzog von Bayern (great-grandson of the last King of Bavaria) is "Francis II". And there are Jacobites today who sincerely discuss how everything will be different once the King over the Water returns . . . including chucking out Gordon Brown.
It can't be all bad.
Oops.
Signed, "Joseph T Major"
Sorry about that.
Don't mention the war!
If you want a monarchy then hurry up and restore the house of Stewart before the combined Whiggeries of Gordon Brown and Elizabeth Battenburg have conspired to take it from the toothless thing it has been under the Windsors to nothing at all.
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