Long to reign over us...
It used to be the last desperate cry of Monarchists, when all the other justifications for the Royal Family were seen to be bogus,"Would you rather X was president, then?"
When X would be Mrs Thatcher if you were left-wing, Tony Benn (or now Blair presumably) if you were right-wing, or Sir Elton John, if you were in the middle.
The reply was always of course, 'Perhaps not for 40 years', but by that point your Monarchist would have started telling you that Charles and Diana's marriage was strong.
Anyway these days the former argument carries no more weight than the latter. When the Queen passes away, we get Charles, assuming he is still in the country, not Switzerland. And I think most of us would prefer Mrs Thatcher. If he is in Switzrland, we'll get William, or heaven forbid anything nasty happens to him we get Harry, whose Eton education left him with a B and D, and perhaps not even that.
This is clearly the best system of government we can have.
posted by Matthew @ 10/14/2004 06:51:00 PM
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