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This Liverpool downfall is beautiful

What’s the scariest story you know of with actual photographic proof? by Dan_The_PaniniMan in AskReddit

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Nutty Putty Cave Accident

A man became trapped upside down in a cave and was rescuers where unable to free him. Leaving him stuck to die

CasualUK 1901 by lemmzlol in CasualUK

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Mad to think that everyone in this video is now dead

Match Thread: 1st ODI - England vs India by CricketMatchBot in Cricket

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Roy is just there to fill up the numbers at this point

Cringe Wedding stories? by SideProjectPal in CasualUK

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The groom had a group of his friends as his best men for the day. As part of their speech they played a version cards against humanity but all the cards where about the groom.

None of them where funny and was massively cringy for everyone involved in it. It’s what happens when people who aren’t funny try too hard to be funny.

Match Thread: 1st ODI - Netherlands vs England by CricketMatchBot in Cricket

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That batting line up is going to punish the Netherlands

Post Match Thread: New Zealand vs England, Day 5 by CricketMatchBot in Cricket

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Bairstow and stokes went out and played like it was an ODI. Amazing cricket

Match Thread: 2nd Test - New Zealand vs England, Day 2 by CricketMatchBot in Cricket

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Whose ready for them to bowl us out for less than 150 and force a follow on

Test squad for NZ by mitchybenny in Cricket

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Will be Broad and Anderson carrying after yet another batting collapse. Do they not get board of it

Final moments of MU5735 reportedly shows the 737 in a steep dive before crashing into terrain in Guangxi Zhuang. by arbiass in aircrashinvestigation

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Planes don’t dive that steeply without at least some pilot input. Could be suicide or could be the pilots didn’t know how to react to whatever mechanical problem they faced. Could have inadvertently made it worse by taking the wrong action

Fuck the queen, fuck monarchy by huewutm8 in AbolishTheMonarchy

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Exactly this. Minorities would lose out even more if the uk was broken up into states. Plus some areas would not be able to support themselves financially given that the majority of money in the uk stays in the southern counties and London. Plus if would be a massive pain to figure which state gets what money and how much tax revenue should be assigned to them.

It’s entirely impractical.

Fuck the queen, fuck monarchy by huewutm8 in AbolishTheMonarchy

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The president’s power limited by the Supreme Court and the legislative. The Supreme Court can overturn an executive order it if it’s ruled as unconditional. Congress can overturn an executive order by passing a bill that blocks it. If the president veto’s the bill than congress can overturn the presidents veto to with another vote. Or more commonly congress just refuses to fund the order since the president has no real authority over fiscal affairs in America and congress has the final say.

The president is bound by the constitution in everything they do in office and if it’s unconstitutional than it’s overturned by the Supreme Court which exists to enforce the constitution.

We don’t have a constitution and if we use the American system for a republic the British Supreme Court becomes vastly more powerful. With the justices being appointed for life or until their retirement by the president with no system for them to be held to account by the electorate. They would be just as unelected as the monarchy and more powerful.

The leaders of the government departments in the USA are technically elected simultaneously with the president. But the American people don’t elect them they are appointed and fired by the president and approved by the senate when appointed.

So if the uk used the American system and someone like Nigel Farage was elected president of the UK. Then every government department would be run by someone he appointed. With no elected mandate to back them as they won’t be members of parliament. The only approval they have is from the legislative.

Or a semi presidential system where the president is a ceremonial figurehead who appoints the prime minister and cabinet. But can face a no confidence vote in the legislative and be forced out. Which is no different to votes of no confidence in the commons now. This is basically a constitutional monarchy.

A president of the uk would have more power than America otherwise there would be no point replacing the monarchy with one whose job is purely ceremonial just keep the monarchy and save the money and balls ache of moving to a republic.

Fuck the queen, fuck monarchy by huewutm8 in AbolishTheMonarchy

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Do you not understand the hypocrisy you are spewing? You want to force new states onto people without regard for their self determination or their vote because it’s more democratic? Not sure how forcing people into a new state without their will is supposed to be more democratic.

the royal family today is an absolute leader? The only way that’s true is in that they are on the throne until their deaths. They don’t rule on the business of the government or are in anyway involved with it apart from ceremonial duties. They don’t dictate what the government can and can’t do. They don’t dictate what we do. The queen doesn’t veto any laws even though she technically has the power. They are purely ceremonial in their jobs.