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Post by Arthur Figgis on Sept 12, 2015 21:06:17 GMT
The hereditaries would probably do a better job than the current shower of shite but please spare us the fυckin bishops  What about the celibate ones? Wankers. |
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Post by carlton43 on Sept 13, 2015 0:11:03 GMT
Would it be a kindness to forward this thread to the General Secretary of the Labour Party? Why, JC has returned to Earth, it is the Rapture. No! Rupture more like and the need for a Truss. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 13, 2015 0:13:57 GMT
Why, JC has returned to Earth, it is the Rapture. No! Rupture more like and the need for a Truss. Now I have just replied to AC stating the biggest threat to the Tories, the US Republicans and Labour is old age, you are spot on. |
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Post by boogieeck on Sept 13, 2015 5:14:31 GMT
Indeed. Todays scenario. I cataclysmic fit of pique wipes out the entire shadow cabinet.
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Post by The Bishop on Sept 13, 2015 10:24:31 GMT
Why, JC has returned to Earth, it is the Rapture. No! Rupture more like and the need for a Truss. Elizabeth or Lynne? |
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Post by carlton43 on Sept 13, 2015 10:26:44 GMT
No! Rupture more like and the need for a Truss. Elizabeth or Lynne? It depends on the nature and closeness of the support required. I have made my choice! |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 13, 2015 11:05:05 GMT
Indeed. Todays scenario. I cataclysmic fit of pique wipes out the entire shadow cabinet. and nobody notices |
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Post by greenchristian on Sept 20, 2015 22:59:05 GMT
I think so. There is always a next in line to the throne, so there is always a monarch. The monarch appoints a PM who can command a majority in parliament. If there is no HoC, there is always a HoL because even if every life peer died, there are hereditaries and bishops. But since the last HoL reforms, killing every current HoL member means a by-election amongst eligible heredities, rather than them automatically acceding. So the new HoL would be made up entirely of the most senior Bishops. |
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Post by peterl on Sept 20, 2015 23:05:08 GMT
Therefore if the HoC and HoL had been wiped out and the only people automatically replacing the dead peers were the senior bishops, a bishop would be headed for No 10. Which is either a comforting or disturbing thought depending on your perspective.  |
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Post by carlton43 on Sept 20, 2015 23:06:45 GMT
I don't think in the scenario envisaged that a knowledge of rules or precedent would be of any interest to the tough bastards with bloody swords holding the first meeting and deciding amongst themselves not only who rules but also who lives.
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Post by finsobruce on Sept 20, 2015 23:10:43 GMT
Therefore if the HoC and HoL had been wiped out and the only people automatically replacing the dead peers were the senior bishops, a bishop would be headed for No 10. Which is either a comforting or disturbing thought depending on your perspective. And depends a lot on the bishop, too. I nominate our The Bishop just to be on the safe side... |
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Post by Devil Wincarnate on Sept 20, 2015 23:43:43 GMT
Semi-serious question for the likes of David B to enlighten us on. In a hypothetical scenario whereby the whole of the Houses of Westminster is completely destroyed (and by chance every single member of both Houses was present and every single one was killed), who, constitutionally, would be given the task of - if you like - 'acting PM' with the responsibility of rebuilding the parliamentary structures? (not literally of course) The head of the Civil Service maybe? Mayor of London?? I don't know, but Katie Ghose doesn't win any of the by-elections. |
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Post by andrewteale on Sept 21, 2015 9:06:39 GMT
Therefore if the HoC and HoL had been wiped out and the only people automatically replacing the dead peers were the senior bishops, a bishop would be headed for No 10. Which is either a comforting or disturbing thought depending on your perspective. Back to mediaeval times, then. |
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Post by boogieeck on Sept 22, 2015 19:00:08 GMT
This weeks scenarios. Flu.
Scenario 1, it kills off 25% of the earths population. Scenario 2, 50%
What difference does it make?
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Post by finsobruce on Sept 22, 2015 19:09:46 GMT
This weeks scenarios. Flu. Scenario 1, it kills off 25% of the earths population. Scenario 2, 50% What difference does it make? Fewer duvet days by those pretending to have flu, when in fact they only have a heavy cold.... |
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Post by boogieeck on Sept 22, 2015 19:23:40 GMT
I think it makes the difference between a massive human catastrophe from which we recover fairly quickly and the collapse of government.
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Post by Crimson King on Sept 22, 2015 20:37:42 GMT
it is unlikely that the mortality would be evenly distributed, so in either scenario there would be countries reletively favoured (where the population was healthy and well nourished to start off with) and others less so. After the inital flu mortality there would be secondary mortality (plenty of rotting corpses and breakdown of services) which would further exagerate the differential. Within countries some sections of the population would be hit harder than others, again tending to favour those who were better off and likely to have their hands on the levers of control
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Post by carlton43 on Sept 22, 2015 20:38:09 GMT
This weeks scenarios. Flu. Scenario 1, it kills off 25% of the earths population. Scenario 2, 50% What difference does it make? 100% from one view point. Assumptions time: - a) Most deaths amongst the poor in Africa and Asia. Medication saves most of the West and the well off. b) All deaths in China and South East Asia. c) The effete West sees the major part of the deaths as the effective jab only available after 75% of all of us gone. d) The deaths affect Central Asia (including Indian sub-continent), Middle East and North/Central Africa only. Now read on.....? |
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Post by Crimson King on Sept 22, 2015 20:45:20 GMT
do you want to clarify those points which appear inconsistent
or do you mean them to be alternative scenarios
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Post by carlton43 on Sept 22, 2015 21:44:22 GMT
do you want to clarify those points which appear inconsistent or do you mean them to be alternative scenarios They are separate scenarios suggesting quite different outcomes for us in wealthy western Europe. |
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