"Matt Brown" morven@gmail.com wrote in message news:42f90dc00602072345x519dc76dx41d5a1b47ff63b98@mail.gmail.com...
On 2/7/06, Peter Mackay peter.mackay@bigpond.com wrote:
If we are talking about doing things legally, that is. If Tony Blair decided to turn the UK into a one-party fascist state using illegal means, an exciting possibility that would raise many British eyebrows, then the Queen would probably find herself unable to intervene. It would depend on which side the military decided to support, I suppose,
Officers of the British armed forces swear an oath to the Queen only, I believe, which might have some import in such an unlikely circumstance.
Not to mention the exciting prospect of giving the government the shaft instead of the other way around...