As it should be.

leviosaurus: Wow. The Prime Minister has a US Green card and has exploited international rules to avoid paying UK taxes while hiking taxes on others, and he's the first sitting finance minister to be criminally sanctioned.

Seriously UK, this is the best you've got? At this point you'd be better off appointing Michael Palin.

/I'm not joking - I honestly think Palin would be a better choice

We want Michael Palin, but we live in a Terry Gilliam world.

/12 slashies

Phil McKraken: The UK has been conditioned over centuries to accept plutocrats.

Enjoy.

The UK has been conditioned to violently rebel against them and burn them at the stake, too. Way more often than any democracy other than France.

HoveringFungus: RasIanI: Yeah -- but does he have medals!

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/funniest part: this was  King Charles' first day without his mom

That's his handlers fault, but I would credit it with him being fd up she had you know, recently died. She  had been there for you know, the 73 years he had been alive. Probably an emotional adjustment period to that.

\no idea why the whole island stopped for like a week though

Part of it is the law. Give people a chance to stand in line and see she is dead. Habeas Corpus is really, really important when the corpus is the wearer of the Crown. If I was Charles, I woulda gone a whole month to ensure that no conspiracy theorists could fark with the Crown's legitimacy because every gradeschooler got a field trip and a royal poking stick to prove to themselves that the rites of succession were legitimate. The last thing we need is QAnon bullshiat.

Shaggy_C: Bennie Crabtree: Phil McKraken: The UK has been conditioned over centuries to accept plutocrats.

Enjoy.

The UK has been conditioned to violently rebel against them and burn them at the stake, too. Way more often than any democracy other than France.

U wot m8? England is the land of the "Glorious Revolution," one where a change of monarch is a bloodless, civil affair. Not at all like those heathens on the Continent. There hasn't been a civil war in England since the 1600s.

I guess if you talk about the UK as a whole, there's been more unrest. But that has far more to do with Catholic vs Protestant and Scotland vs England than plutocracy.

There've been riots-a-plenty and you seem to have elided the history of British socialism, forest law )I mean are you freaking serious about forest law???), the rebelions against the Black Acts, and many other movements that were absolutely violent rebellion and not what you've talking about.