#prorogue

[fideidefenswhore]

In the decretal commission for Henry’s case, the ‘facts’ under scrutiny were three, all related to the original dispensation granted so that Henry could marry his sister-in-law: Had the marriage between Henry and Katherine been necessary to preserve the peace between England and Spain? Had Henry agreed to the marriage in order to preserve this peace? Had Henry VII, Isabella, or Ferdinand died before the dispensation went into effect? The questions were so posed that not only was it easy to arrive at the factually correct answers, but the answers themselves would be precisely those that would most effectively undermine the validity of the dispensation . . . it was to be laid down in the decretal commission that it required the facts in only one of the three matters to be investigated to prove inconsistent with what was stated in the dispensation for the marriage to be declared invalid.’’ Since the document was destroyed, it is impossible to determine how far Clement went along with this ruse, but given that it was destroyed by papal order one can safely assume that the solution it contained was in the king’s favor.

The Italian Encounter with Tudor England: A Cultural Politics of Translation, Michael Wyatt

[djuvlipen]

"with love's light wings did I o'er-perched these walls for stony limits cannot hold love out, and what love can do that dares love attempt. thy kinsmen are no stop to me"

[saintmeghanmarkle]

This post is SPITTING FACTS about what titles KC can remove from Harry. FACT: KC can strip Harry of Prince and HRH. This is not a youtube opinion but the informed opinion of a highly credentialed professor emeritus of public law by u/Positive-Vibes-2-All

This post is SPITTING FACTS about what titles KC can remove from Harry. FACT: KC can strip Harry of Prince and HRH. This is not a youtube opinion but the informed opinion of a highly credentialed professor emeritus of public law I had it up to my wazoo reading and hearing conflicting opinions of what KC is able to do regarding titles so I went searching for a rock solid answer."Master Graham Zellick is a Senior Master of the Bench and former Reader, is emeritus professor of public law and former Principal of Queen Mary & Westfield College, sometime Vice-Chancellor of the University of London, a former editor of Public Law, and was Chairman of the Criminal Cases Review Commission, President of the Valuation Tribunal for England and a member of the Investigatory Powers Tribunal. He is an Honorary Fellow of Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge and of the Society for Advanced Legal Studies."In no uncertain terms, Zellick states that KC can remove HRH and Prince"....The title of Prince is likewise in the gift of the Monarch. As with ‘HRH’, it is usually acquired by coming within a class or category stipulated in letters patent, but it can also be done individually.....There is no reason why the Sovereign cannot remove these titles, a decision which again could not be challenged in the courts, since the royal prerogative in relation to honours and titles is said to be unreviewable or ‘non-justiciable’. The exercise of prerogative powers is in principle subject to supervision by the courts in the same way that statutory powers are – as Boris Johnson discovered in 2019 when his attempt to prorogue Parliament was annulled by the Supreme Court – but powers exercised by the Monarch personally otherwise than on ministerial advice or in relation to honours fall into the non-justiciable category. "​imho It would be more fitting and send a stronger message and cut deeper to strip the title Prince then stripping Harry of his Dukedom which as Zellick explains at the link would need to be done by parliament. Harry is the one who should bear the brunt of responsibility, he has been the traitor to his family, he is just as responsible as Markle for employing scum like Boozy and other sugars to name just two instances of his treachery.​https://ift.tt/36MDgNh'. post link: https://ift.tt/zNryWkq author: Positive-Vibes-2-All submitted: August 18, 2024 at 10:23PM via SaintMeghanMarkle on Reddit disclaimer: all views + opinions expressed by the author of this post, as well as any comments and reblogs, are solely the author's own; they do not necessarily reflect the views of the administrator of this Tumblr blog. For entertainment only.

[princesscatherinemiddleton]

What’s the general election stuff? I’m so confused what’s going on lol

So yesterday Rishi Sunak (the Prime Minister of the UK) declared a general election will take place on July 4th. To do this, he had to request a dissolution of parliament from Charles, who gave his permission during the day yesterday when he met with Rishi for 15 minutes. This means that on Friday (May 24th) parliament will be prorogued (essentially paused, so no new laws or anything will happen), and it will be officially dissolved on the 30th May. This means that from that point the UK won't have a parliament or any MPs and people will start campaigning for re-election.

About an hour after the news of the general election broke, Buckingham Palace made this statement:

Following the Prime Minister’s statement this afternoon calling a General Election, The Royal Family will – in accordance with normal procedure – postpone engagements that may appear to divert attention or distract from the election campaign. Their Majesties send their sincere apologies to any of those who may be affected as a result.

This is something which used to be called 'purdah' but is now just being sensitive. Lots of other people have explained this much better (including @duchessofostergotlands so I'm going to direct you here) but tldr: any work (which includes some royal engagements) which may impact on an election needs to be suspended.

I looked back at the CC for the 2017 and 2019 general elections. While there wasn't a particularly big decrease in engagements, the engagements that took place included overseas tours, patronage engagements, receptions and galas, and work linked to projects. I don't know what was postponed at the time but I assume the engagements which were postponed were the ones which were linked to current divisive topics. For example, I would assume that engagements closely linked to things like food banks, schooling, homelessness, trans issues, etc. would be postponed at the moment.

Things like Trooping, Ascot, Garter, any football engagements William does linked to the Euros, Anne's visits to lighthouses aren't going to be cancelled or postponed because they're not going to have an impact on the election. Despite this, I think they will reduce their engagements more than they would usually purely because it forces Charles back inside to make him rest more!

[flowwritesfanfictionannoucemnets]

News Makes Love Chapter 19: Side Quest B: Be Friends Enough To Convince Our Friends We Are Friends Part 5 Finale

Fic Despcrtion:

Ron has a secret hobby that not even Harry or Hermione knows about. Ron loves drama. More than that, in his first year Lee Jordan took him under his wing to take over the underground newspaper when he graduated. Now in his 7th year, Ron is the only one running the show. With the stress of what he was going to do with his life and running the paper on his own, he did not expect to find his prorogue in a Slytherin. No less the person who found them for him. Will Ron now be in the Will They Date? section of his newspaper? Or does the other not like him that way?

Blaise needs to know just who is the one writing the underground newspaper to A. Kiss them for giving him the gift that is every little drama in Hogwarts B. Become friends with this amazing person. C. Try to convince them to help him start the Hogwarts Drama club.

How will they react when they find out that it is them? How will they help each other? And will they fall in love and be successful Will They Date? Or has everyone who has written the newspaper find love this way?

Chapter Descprtion:

Ron, Blaise, Pansy, Draco, and Theo hang out and have fun and everything is just good.

[lost-carcosa]

Disgraced former Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who unlawfully suspended Parliament, restricted the right to protest, and lied to MPs, has been appointed to the advisory board of the International Democracy Union, the global centre-right group for “freedom and democracy”. 

The International Democracy Union (IDU) is an international alliance of centre-right political parties based in Munich, Germany. It is chaired by Stephen Harper, the former Prime Minister of Canada. 

The group announced on Tuesday: “The IDU is excited to announce that PM Boris Johnson has joined our Honorary Advisory Board. His extensive experience as a statesman will be of tremendous help as we work towards building an ever-stronger alliance of the centre-right! Welcome to the IDU, Prime Minister!”

The decision has been met with baffled outrage on social media. In June, a report found that democracy in the UK was in retreat, following Boris Johnson’s cavalier approach to standards in public life and efforts to warp the constitution under his tenure.

Commissioned by democratic pressure groups, Unlock Democracy and Compass, the report found that issues like the partygate scandal – where politicians making the rules repeatedly  broke them over Covid – and the lobbying scandal surrounding Owen Paterson which saw Johnson try and fail to get him out of hot water by overriding Commons procedure – undermined the strength of democracy in the UK. 

Johnson’s government also introduced mandatory photo voter ID, which has made it much more difficult for millions of people to vote. At the same time, his Elections Act undermined the principle that the body responsible for overseeing elections, in this case the Electoral Commission, should be independent of government. The government can now set the body’s strategy and has a majority of seats on the parliamentary body overseeing it. 

Meanwhile, clampdowns on the right to protest and strike, and conscious attempts to delegitimise and weaken the power of independent regulators and the judiciary, compounded existing failings within UK democracy, the report found.

The IDU post is the latest gong for the man who shut down Parliament in order to prevent it voting against his Brexit plans, and who resigned when faced with a potential Commons vote over repeatedly lying to MPs. Johnson’s Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act has also seen hundreds of peaceful protesters locked up since passing last April.

Responding to the announcement that the former Prime Minister has joined the IDU’s Honorary Advisory Board, Tom Brufatto, Director of Policy at Best for Britain, said: “There is a staggering irony in Boris Johnson – the man who unlawfully prorogued parliament, eroded voters’ democratic rights with the Election’s Bill, and was found to have deliberately misled Parliament and the country during the pandemic – providing advice on the promotion of democracy.

“He should have no further influence on our or anyone else’s politics.”

Byline Times readers responded to the news of Johnson’s new post with disbelief. “Their entrance requirements must be really low to think he’s an asset to the group,” one said. 

Another said: “Any potential credibility they have just flown out of the window. [I] can’t believe any organisation thinks having Johnson on board is an asset.”

“Johnson is one of the greatest scam artists the UK has ever seen,” one argued. “If they are pleased he has joined them it says a lot about their integrity or rather lack of it,” another said, while one branded it simply: “Farcical.”

Another pointed to Johnson’s decision in 2019 to withdraw the whip from 21 Conservative MPs who dared to challenge him over his no-deal Brexit push: “At the next election, many were replaced by people of the ‘calibre’ of Lee Anderson, Scott Benton and others.”

One reader noted wryly: “I expect they want his skills and expertise in how to dismantle and damage democracy.” Others mocked the IDU’s use of the phrase ‘Prime Minister’ to describe Johnson, in the way that former US presidents keep their ‘President’ title. “He appears to have fooled the IDU into thinking he is Prime Minister,” one said.

Several replied simply with clown emojis. 

Former Conservative leader William Hague is a former chairman of the IDU. In June last year, Hague was among those calling for Johnson to quit as PM, saying his win among MPs was the “worst possible result” for the party. 

The damage done to his premiership was “severe” and showed a “greater level of rejection than any Tory leader has ever endured and survived”, Hague said, slamming Johnson’s failure to tackle the drinking culture in No 10 during the lockdowns. 

[lorena12me]

"Are you trying to get out of our deal, Bern?" the human form of Tim begins to crumble, as his red wings unfurl in Bernard's living room menacingly. The blond hadn't noticed those huge black claws on Tim's fingertips in their previous encounter, they looked... sharp "That's not how this works" he growls. "No!" hastily denies the human, inwardly praying to all the gods of fortune that blessed him at birth to let him get out of this in one piece "I want an Prorogue!" Tim laughs, dry and mischievous. "Prorogue?" the temperature in the room drops ten degrees, the light bulb flickers the shadows on the walls move "So you can look for a way to get out of our deal?, You asked me to chase you, you told me you wished I wouldn't let you escape..." his clawed hands clutch Bernard's arms and then he pushes him off making him lie down on the couch, with the fairy climbing over him like a bird holding its prey "...And now you want to repent?"

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Part 2 of The wrong place at the right time

[houseofbrat]

Hi HOB, regarding your comment on W’s chart being suited for an engineer: I was reading Chinese astrology for W’s natal chart and there are many similarities. The life star is Qisha (Seven Kills, otherwise the aggressive battlefield general).

The person can lead in military or engineering fields with independence and cool decisiveness. By nature he is strong and direct, intimidating, able to win the respect and submission of many. As a military man he is sensitive and alert to dangers, however his moods are labile and impulsive. Coupled with an inherently rebellious nature and boldness, he should be wary of inviting conflict. Appearance-wise he has thick hair, good musculature, and a dominating gaze. He is competitive, confident, bossy, reckless, righteous, and driven. It is difficult to trust others and as a result he has only a handful of true friends.

"however his moods are labile and impulsive." Ding! Ding! Ding!

That to me is one of the biggest problems with William. It's not obvious out in the open on engagements, but he has problems with anxiety & depression, I suspect.

I think it's interesting that William has Jada Yoga in his chart, which King George VI also had. Jada Yoga: "The person becomes nervous and loses the balance of his mind when speaking in front of a group of people."

"he should be wary of inviting conflict." Another thing I agree with.

I remember reading Roya Nikkah's article in The Times on William before his 40th birthday last year. I remember her saying that William wouldn't have allowed the proroguing of parliament in 2019 that QEII did. I instantly thought that was not a good sign. I'm sure QEII and her advisors knew that Boris really didn't have the right to prorogue parliament back then, but entering into the political sphere like that would not have been a good move. Considering that QEII with all her grandma popularity didn't think she could stop Boris proroguing parliament with all hell breaking loose, there is no way it would ever be a good move for someone like William to do so. But, I have no doubt he's going to pick those fights because he thinks he can win. Not all battles are worth fighting.

I think the description you posted is quite accurate.

Thank you!

[kaitlinj16]

🦋365 Days / 365 Characters🦋

[7/365] Characters 》 Romeo Montague

"I have night's cloak to hide me from their eyes, but thou love me, let them find me here. My life were better ended by their hate than death prorogued, wanting of thy love."

💙💙💙

[duchessofostergotlands]

Hey Jess, I saw Peter Hunt complaining about Charles meeting Ursula von der Leyen today. He said:

“This is a very serious error of judgement by King Charles and his advisors.

He’s abandoned his unifying role and entered the political fray, in a foolish bid to be seen as statesmanlike.

History won’t be kind. Someone’s head will roll.”

I don’t understand, what’s different between this meeting and all the other glad handing the head of state does? I don’t know what a European Commission head does, but it sounds like someone who’d be welcomed to meet the King?

Ursula is President of the European Commission which is part of the executive branch of the European Union. So she isn't a head of state.

I don't know the ins and outs and what I do know is really complicated, but I think that essentially this is about timing. Ursula was in the UK to sign this Windsor Framework thing I mentioned the other day, the agreement around what will happen with the Irish border. Rishi is having to lie in the bed the Tories made and deliver an agreement that pleases both the right wing Eurosceptic Tories who want the UK to have nothing to do with the EU in any way whatsoever no matter how many laws they violate or how many people die and the DUP, the right wing, unionist Northern Irish political party who were so angry with the temporary agreement after Brexit that they have essentially forced the Northern Irish parliament into a shut down for almost a year. Both of those groups tend to be heavily monarchist and so some people view the decision to have Charles meet Ursula hours after an agreement was reached - before the DUP or the Tories have officially signed off on it - was an attempt to force them to back it because they won't want to disagree with the King.

In Great Britain I truly believe almost no one even knows who Ursula is and so the idea that this is what would undo the monarchy is a bit dramatic. But I'm not from Northern Ireland and the sentiment seems very different there. What it comes down to really is the fact that we don't have a single written constitution. The monarch is expected to not be partisan, but individuals will interpret what that means for themselves. Papers like the Daily Mail etc are supportive of the Tory Eurosceptics and so they will be upset by this in a way they aren't by past interventions. But it's barely had a whisper on the left wing Guardian, who have spent months exposing Charles's interference in political matters in the past.

I do think this situation would have been talked about differently if it was the Queen. In 2019 she prorogued (suspended) parliament on Boris Johnson’s advice. This was later deemed unlawful because Boris was doing it to run out the clock to force a no deal Brexit. Everyone knew that’s why Boris called for suspension. The Queen knew everything that was going on in her country politically, she knew why he called it, and she did it anyway. Now it was a hard situation - ignoring the advice of the PM is bad, unlawfully suspending Parliament is bad - but the press all said she was taken advantage of and how could she have known? This situation isn’t substantially different - I believe she’d have met Ursula too if asked - but the coverage is. To me it highlights that Charles definitely won’t get the slack his mother got, he doesn’t have a warm and fluffy persona he can rest on, and his years of disregard for the foundation of our democracy are coming back to bite him.

[fideidefenswhore]

Why did Anne have a coronation while she was pregnant? I would think that Henry wouldn't want to risk her health.

Well, it was a matter of timing in some sense, once he found out she was...dominoes had to be set up, the arrest of Bishop Fisher before Anne's first public appearance as Queen, the Acts pushed through Parliament, the ruling of the Convocation, even the choice of date seems deliberate (Parliament was prorogued until Whitsuntide, her coronation was Whitsunday).

It seems that he just thought it was religiously and politically important, balanced with concern for her health, since his yeoman apothecary, Cuthbert Blackeden had instructions to attend her during her coronation.

[darkmaga-returns]

On Tuesday, December 3, 2024, South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol declared martial law. From that moment to this, pundits in East Asia, the United States, and elsewhere have been busy whipping themselves into a furor rivaled only by the scenes of open-air chaos in downtown Seoul.

“Yoon is a dictator!” the pundits and South Korean protestors cried. “Yoon is an insurrectionist! He is taking South Korea back to the dark ages of military government!”

Yoon’s reasons for declaring martial law were thin gruel. He thought “anti-state forces” were holding up important legislative processes, and so he apparently decided to up the ante by calling out the army to overwhelm the recalcitrant opposition. But that Yoon was plotting to seize the reins of power is belied by two facts: one, he is already the president, and insurrectionists are rarely Dada enough to attempt the theater-of-the-absurd role of overthrowing themselves. And two, while Yoon may have tried to prorogue (not topple) the legislature, he may also have been trying to spur the lawmakers into doing their jobs instead of sitting on their hands and holding up his longed-for legislation. Either way, fits of pique at uppity parliamentarians are not sufficient conditions for coups d’etat. Yoon may have made a grave political miscalculation by sending troops into the streets and the National Assembly, but “political miscalculation” is the beginning and the end of it.

[wordsaremeaninglessness]

prorogue

[illogarithmil]

it must have been very funny to be in these committees sometimes.

Translation below the cut.

Meeting subject: How do we get people to join the police??? Please we need more police the IRA keeps killing them :((

[Enter, in order of notability, Chairman, Ian Fucking Paisley, First and Second Official Unionist, Unofficial Unionist, and several Extras]

Unofficial Unionist: I would just like to point out that William Craig M.P. is literally Hitler (subjectively untrue) and is setting up his own paramilitaries (entirely true)

Chairman: That's not the meeting topic

Ian Fucking Paisley, Protestant Unionist: Whilst I'm quite happy to personally rip Craig's guts out and string them on a banner, as somebody who also does a bit of setting up paramilitaries on the side I have to object to your tone. Chairman please tell him to shut the fuck up.

Chairman: I just did that. You heard me do that.

Unofficial Unionist: I'm just saying I think people should join the police if they like uniforms :))

First Official Unionist: Whilst we're on uniforms I'd just like to point out that we're changing the colour and it's dumb. Also since somebody mentioned it, have we refilled the police oversight body yet after that one woman died-

Chairman: Shut the fuck up

First Official Unionist: Absolutely :) ... Continuing, as a woman -

[Somebody immediately begins shouting misogynistic slurs; order is restored]

First Official Unionist: - I just think I have a natural affinity for cloth which makes me an authority on uniforms and also I could represent the women's police.

Second Official Unionist: [Wakes up, checks notes] As I think we're all saying here, the basic issue is that the exams to get into the RUC are too hard. I propose...

[Conversation carries on until parliament is prorogued the next month]

[caymannewsservice]

Ex DP calls for full consultation on controversial bills

(CNS): The former deputy premier, André Ebanks MP (WBS) is calling on government to make sure that the public are given the full 28 day consultation period on two specific and controversial bills that the UPM has indicated they want to bring to parliament before it is prorogued. Ebanks has said introducing the proposed referendum bill and amendments to the National Conservation Act to the meeting…

[antonjesus]

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