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[–] TotallynotJessica@lemmy.world 31 points 9 months ago (2 children)

The UK had Thatcher, experienced decades of decline, and left the EU under Queen Elizabeth. It's not that things are suddenly worse under Charlie; they've been getting continually worse for a long time.

[–] 10_0@lemmy.ml 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Speaking like the royal family get a choice in what Parliament does or has the people vote on

[–] porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

They only "officially" dont, but in fact they wield a huge amount of power over the government, there have been several scandals about it in recent years

[–] TotallynotJessica@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

Even more of a reason the conversation is moot

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 3 points 9 months ago

And had another female PM for like a week, at which point Liz died.

No middle ground.