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  1. 1st December 2019, 04:16 PM #21
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    Quote Originally Posted by RANDLOVER View Post
    That is some history indeed, as the best I've seen in those "Who Do Yo Think you Are?" programmes was Alexander Armstrong and they traced his family back to 1066.

    From Wikipedia....."
    In August 2010, Armstrong was featured in an episode of
    BBC One
    's
    Who Do You Think You Are?
    , through which he discovered that he was a descendant of
    William the Conqueror
    . His father comes from a landowning family with deep connections to the
    North East
    , and is a great-grandnephew of
    Robert Spence Watson
    and distantly related to
    William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong
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    With Armstrong's father's family history already well-known to him, the series traced his mother's side of the family, who were descended from Irish
    landed gentry
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    And re: the OP, certainly a well deserved retirement.

    That's nothing. I know a couple of fellas who can trace their bloodline back 60,000 years.


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    I’m pretty sure the dinosaurs died out when they stopped gathering food and started having meetings to discuss gathering food

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    I can trace my English bloodline back to 1243 in Devon, so that makes me better qualified to be King than those usurpers descended from the Germans, I reckon.
    My first act as King would be to introduce a Bill to cancel the monarchy and introduce a republic.
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    Quote Originally Posted by BradC View Post
    If they were "educated" they wouldn't have produced John Clarke and Murray Ball. Leave 'em alone I say!
    i really cant argue with that can i
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    Quote Originally Posted by JDNSW View Post
    but they have never seemed to have much desire to do so!
    hence the annex option.
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    Do we want them?
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    Quote Originally Posted by JDNSW View Post
    Do we want them?

    australia needs living space for her people
    living space in the east.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Eevo View Post
    australia needs living space for her people
    living space in the east.
    Lebensraum, Ostfront. I think I have heard that sometime earlier.
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    Quote Originally Posted by DiscoMick View Post
    I can trace my English bloodline back to 1243 in Devon, so that makes me better qualified to be King than those usurpers descended from the Germans, I reckon.
    My first act as King would be to introduce a Bill to cancel the monarchy and introduce a republic.
    HRH to retire next year, at 95 ?
    Probably not that simple.
    The UK political system


    The United Kingdom is a parliamentary democracy: government is voted into power by the people, to act in the interests of the people. Every adult has the right to vote - known as 'universal suffrage'.

    Alongside this system, the UK is also a constitutional monarchy. This is a situation where there is an established monarch (currently Queen Elizabeth II), who remains politically impartial and with limited powers.

    Parliament and Crown - UK Parliament



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    The evolution of the British Parliament.

    The evolution of Parliament - UK Parliament
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    One of the fascinating things I have found about the history of the British constitution is that the US constitution looks a lot like the British one did in the second half of the eighteenth century, with a hereditary head of government/state replaced by an indirectly elected head of government/state with a fixed term, suitably modified to fit a federation, most notably with the House of Lords replaced by a Senate elected by the states making up the federation.

    The Australian constitution looks a lot like the British constitution did in 1900, with the head of state and head of government by then being separate individuals (Queen & PM), with the head of government and all ministers now required to be members of parliament, and again, modified to suit a federation, directly copying the US model with a state elected Senate. Not having a written constitution, the British constitution can and does change quite rapidly, without upheaval, compared to countries with written constitutions that have usually been designed to be difficult to change.
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