>Any UKfag here?
Yes - UK fag here.
Fire away and will try to answer any questions
>What's the atmosphere brother? You had 3 brexit peeps resign. How are things looking?
Pro Brexiteers are overjoyed. Theresa May was anti-Brexit and most of us think she should never have been elected to leadership of the Conservative Party and hence PM. Davis Davis' resignation puts the Conservative Partty and Theresa May in a tight spot as they have a very small majority.
Best outcome is that Jacob Rees Mogg followers force a vote of no confidence in Theresa May and force a leadership election and Rees Mogg (principled, staunch Brexiteer, would get on weith DJT) replaces May as PM. This could work but because Conservative majority in parliament so small, we may end up with a General Election. That could be dangerous because it gives entry to Jeremy Corbyn, leader of the Labout party and a socialist/communist to become PM.
If Rees Mogg replaces May as PM which is possible, then we will REALLY leave the EU and with a much better deal than T May would have negotiated. Her heart was never in Brexit.
The Monarchy has very little power - the Monarch is Head of State but power is largely limited to making appointments to a few select Civalric Orders life The Order of the Garter. IN a way, having a Monarch as Head of State prevents vile people like Tony Blair making a play for the position and establishing a dynasty like the Bushes and Clintons in the US. We quite like our system. So long as the Monarch occupies the Head of State position via the throns, as not much more than a figurehead, it keeps bad actors out. That's my personal opnion. There are people who would prefer a repulblic but they are mostly from the Labour Party - socialist/communist. I prefer to keep things as they are.
The Monarchy is a bit outdated but strangely enough, it isn't at all totalitarian, and much less likely to bvecome so, in fact, than if we were to have an elected head of state as in the US where elections can be rigged and money can get people into positions of power.
The Queen has to do what her Ministers tell her to do (her Ministers being from the elected government of the day). She can't just do as she pleases.
I'd prefer to have the Queen as Head of State thah a career politician any day of the week. Having said that, I've never been keen on Prince Charles, next in line, and have reservations about William and Harry - far to involved in environmentalism for my likes. They have influence because of their high-vis status rather than any powers that come with the Monarchy.
I'm hopin that Rees-Mogg will be elected leader of the Conservative Party and thence PM. Steve Bannon has already been in contact with R-M and I'm pretty sure DJT and R-M would work together well. R-M is not ideal but he's the best we've got atm. At least he's a man of priciple and integrity and can't be bought like Blair was and Corbyn would be. And he believes in national sovereignty and is anti globalism.
>I really don't know much about him, need to dig moar
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>what if farage came back from the EU parliament?
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>better/worse/irrelevant?
he problem with Farage is that he was leader of UKIP which was a one issue party formed to get us out of the EU. UKIP without Farage is such an insgnificant party that they didn't even get a single MP elected at the last General Election. The only way Farage could ever be part of government, imo, is if he joined the Conservative party and got elected to parliament as an MP. He might well do that if Rees-Mogg were to become PM and he thought Rees-Mogg would negotiate a good Brexit deal.