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derby378

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12. Come on, now - John Kerr isn't exactly the Queen, now, is he?

Reply to Seedersandleechers (Original post)

Tue Oct 1, 2013, 11:36 PM

Oct 2013

John Kerr fired Parliament, not Queen Elizabeth. The only thing the Queen can do on her own is appoint a new Prime Minister if the UK Parliament isn't able to elect one by themselves.

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Australia had a government shutdown once. In the end, the queen fired everyone in Parliament. [View all] Seedersandleechers Oct 2013 OP

love that look on the Queen's face Skittles Oct 2013 #1

Unfortunately it is much more difficult to fire these idiots liberal N proud Oct 2013 #2

The PM was Gough Whitlam. roamer65 Oct 2013 #3

Fun fact pitbullgirl1965 Oct 2013 #5

Oh how I wish we could fire the fucking tea party. Initech Oct 2013 #4

+1,000,000 highplainsdem Oct 2013 #6

Once. rug Oct 2013 #7

I am willing to admit that our rebellion against King George was illegal mysuzuki2 Oct 2013 #8

I was living in Australia when this happened HeiressofBickworth Oct 2013 #9

...after which, I believe, the Government took away the Queen's right to intervene brooklynite Oct 2013 #10

I don't think they did...and it wasn't the Queen who intervened... Violet_Crumble Oct 2013 #14

So we cannot fire them - can we impeach them? Or recall them? jwirr Oct 2013 #11

Come on, now - John Kerr isn't exactly the Queen, now, is he? derby378 Oct 2013 #12

Maybe we're approaching this from the wrong angle. Buns_of_Fire Oct 2013 #13

Thank you for your generous offer to us Aussies. But I'd feel guilty RFKHumphreyObama Oct 2013 #16

The article's got the bit about the govt shutting down wrong... Violet_Crumble Oct 2013 #15