The clues are here...
I/you/we paid for this floating abode.
Shall we all become ducks take up residence?
Alternatively, the magnanimous thing that Sir Peter could do is to be persuaded to make it available the homeless PEOPLE of his constituency. Unfortunately, they'll all have to have webbed-feet, brilliant plumage and be less than 5 feet tall. Having no fixed address, many such people are disenfranchised, of course.
How much more nonsense are we to tolerate before we re-establish the authority of our monarch?!
Come on, Queen, dissolve the lot. Constitutionally, and historically, you have that power.
I wish you longevity because I might change my view after you've gone!
Can I clean your moat, Ma-am?!
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Poor old Liz! Was it really any better when we were ruled by a monarch? It seems to depend on the era. One can't expect the descendants to be consistent, and they aren't!
We are moving towards a reduction in the numbers at Westminster. This is a trial of democracy which looks set to fail just as did every other system in the end. Do we really have the chance to get rid of them? Remember Cromwell's speech. We'll see.
That they have done things in our name - despite the overall will of the majority - is why it's just another bad joke.
The nation needed to act many years ago. It may now be far too late to save ourselves from the abyss. Sorry!
Oliver Cromwell's Speech to Parliament 20Apr1653
“...It is high time for me to put an end to your sitting in this place, which you have dishonoured by your contempt of all virtue, and defiled by your practice of every vice; ye are a factious crew, and enemies to all good government; ye are a pack of mercenary wretches, and would like Esau sell your country for a mess of pottage, and like Judas betray your God for a few pieces of money.
“Is there a single virtue now remaining amongst you? Is there one vice you do not possess? Ye have no more religion than my horse; gold is your God; which of you have not barter'd your conscience for bribes? Is there a man amongst you that has the least care for the good of the Commonwealth?
“Ye sordid prostitutes, have you not defil'd this sacred place, and turn'd the Lord's temple into a den of thieves by your immoral principles and wicked practices? Ye are grown intolerably odious to the whole nation; you were deputed here by the people to get grievances redress'd; your country therefore calls upon me to cleanse the Augean Stable, by putting a final period to your iniquitous proceedings, and which by God's help and the strength He has given me, I now come to do.
“I command ye, therefore, upon the peril of your lives, to depart immediately out of this place! Take away that shining bauble there, and lock up the doors. You have sat here too long for the good you do. In the name of God, go!”
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