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Putting aside WW2 for a moment, was the abdication really such a crisis anyway? I guess it's hard to judge looking back with todays values but was it a proper concern for the country/common man/government?
Oh I thought it was about the chicken
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At the time yes - bearing in mind economic issues, rise of Hitler in Germany, Empire beginning to fragment,and WW1 and the rise of communism only being a short time before. Some continuity was expected, big fear of the unknown.
With hindsight and modern standards, storm in a teacup, like the media frenzies we get nowadays to fill 24hr news channels.
people out in the streets demanding #tags
It was a [u]constitutional[/u] crisis, WW2 wasn't, because there was a fundamental difference of opinion between the head of state and the government of the day in the UK and the Dominions.
Oh, thank God - I feared the worst. Don't think 1D could lose another member and still survive
It was called an abdication but he was basically sacked. The sacking of a head of state, even a figurehead one, is a fairly serious constitutional crisis in any country. A figurehead leader/head of state exists primarily to provide political stability and continuity, sacking them suggests the opposite. imo
Different times... I remember my grandma and grandad talking about it, it shocked them to the core, no exaggeration to say that back then the royals underpinned their idea of what Britain was. (my grandad was horified to catch George 6th in his dressing gown having a sly fag- simply Not Done, on either side. He genuinely didn't tell anyone for 40 years, and when he did it was like he was admitting to murder.)
The current contempt for British democracy shown by the Prime Minister and other senior figures in assorted parties is shaping up to be a pretty big crisis though. I don't think that was what Theresa May was actually referring to but she was nearly right.
I thought this was going to be about [url= http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/the-queen-drops-off-the-top-end-of-the-sunday-times-rich-list-for-the-first-time-since-its-inception-10204588.html ]the Queen dropping off the top end of Sunday Times rich list[/url]
If the present Queen was sacked by the government for behaviour deemed unacceptable I think it would still be described as very shocking.
Imho it suggests more that May is keeping her profile up and her face in the papers for a stab at leader of the opposition in a few weeks.
wanmankylung, I agree with the opinion on the Tories in your cartoon - but my concern regarding the elected representatives from the far north is the opposite. I may be wrong, but the crisis for me is that the success of the SNP is more likely to result in a Tory PM for the UK than otherwise.
julianwilson - MemberImho it suggests more that May is keeping her profile up and her face in the papers for a stab at leader of the opposition in a few weeks.
Which just always strikes me as bizarre, considering that she's been an unmitigated disaster as home secretary. Always an achievement to stand out, considering all the outstandingly awful home secretaries we've had recently.