Keep your heir on

I was just listening to the radio and I thought “I can’t believe my ears!” So I had an Assistant bring up the BBC website on the inter-net and now I can’t believe my eyes either!

Apparently the Commonwealth has just voted to allow the succession of females to the throne!

Bad move!  This is nothing less than:

“The death blow to civilization!”
701. Viscount 28th October 2011 - 21:54

However, let’s just remain calm here and calmly list some of the reasons women aren’t as good as men.

“If only we could abolish the marxist louts desecrating St Pauls.
But back to the point of the argument, we should leave our monarchy as it is. The queen has done a wonderful job but a male heir carries more gravitas.”
113. nieuw divil 28th October 2011 - 15:07

It would also be good HR practice to send her an official letter stating that her employment has been terminated. “Dear Queen Elizabeth 2nd, Thanks for all your hard work over the past 59 years. Although we recognise that you have strong skills in terms of being Queen Elizabeth 2nd, sadly we felt that you were lacking gravitas when compared to Prince Harry.”

At any rate, we cannot afford to be sentimental about what, for the UK, is largely an operational issue.

“This is hard to take seriously.
The system has worked fine for hundreds of years, why change it now? Men in general have stronger characteristics than women, so are better adept at becoming a head of a throne.
Also men have been statistically been shown to be better with maths and making quick decisions, needed to be an effective monarch.

I ask the question: Why can't she just take a back role?”
38. RJ__02 28th October 2011 - 14:37

Precisely.  A female heir might very well be, like our present monarch, good at waving and wearing hats but what use is she if the Spanish Navy attack Portsmouth again?  I’m not sure even our current Queen is up to the job.  She lacks the gravitas of Prince Charles and statistically has fewer synapses.
 

I also, disturbingly, found a gentleman who thought this whole debacle to be of little relevance to normal peoples’ lives!  Thankfully, however, although he starts strong...

"Come on the BBC! This is not a top story, this is barely a story - this has no social relevance to anything going on in Britian."
52. Dislikesthings 28th October 2011 - 14:42

… then he goes and spoils it all by saying something stupid like:

“Europe is about to melt, literally, the eastern side of the planet is sinking and this is what you think is the top story.”

And thankfully his following should sink with it.  Although I am quite concerned by this sinking issue, now that he’s mentioned it, and am developing a tension headache on the eastern side of my head.  I’ll leave it to Theophane to finish up, while I find some paracetamol and maybe watch A History Of Britain on a television built by the local vicar.

“There's virtually nothing worthwhile in this country that doesn't owe its existence to the Roman Catholic Church.

Sorry but it's the truth.”
455. Theophane 28th October 2011 - 17:44