ChatterBank0 min ago
The "eu"
I have no idea whether or not the Queen has expressed any opinion about the "EU". However, she is surely bound by her Coronation oath (and no doubt many other solemn undertakings) to resist to her utmost any supranational organisation which seeks to diminish the ability of the UK to govern herself.
This is no more a matter of politics than was the decision in 1939 to resist Hitler and German aggression in Europe.
This is no more a matter of politics than was the decision in 1939 to resist Hitler and German aggression in Europe.
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Chris38,
You have not represented properly the aoths the Her Majesty took at her Coronation.
The Queen is constitutionally obliged not to interfere in politics. Her Government make decissions and she is not allowed to influence that. A sucession of the Queen's Governtments have signed a series of treaties with the EU. Whether she is pro or anti that, it is the will of Parliament and that trumps whatever the Queen thinks.
You have not represented properly the aoths the Her Majesty took at her Coronation.
The Queen is constitutionally obliged not to interfere in politics. Her Government make decissions and she is not allowed to influence that. A sucession of the Queen's Governtments have signed a series of treaties with the EU. Whether she is pro or anti that, it is the will of Parliament and that trumps whatever the Queen thinks.
If only it were that simple.
I’m not so sure that anything in the Coronation Oath requires the monarch “…to resist to her utmost any supranational organisation which seeks to diminish the ability of the UK to govern herself.” There are two parts to the Coronation Oath. The second part rambles on about maintaining the Church of England and the Protestant faith as supreme so is not relevant. The first part says this (taken from the 1688 Act):
“Will You solemnely Promise and Sweare to Governe the People of this Kingdome of England and the Dominions thereto belonging according to the Statutes in Parlyament Agreed on and the Laws and Customs of the same?”
I think the clincher is “…according to the Statutes in Parlyament Agreed on and the Laws and Customs of the same?” Among those “Statutes” is the 1972 European Communities Act. This (which the Queen signed) among many other things enables Government ministers to lay regulations before Parliament to transpose Community/Union texts into formal UK law (for example, EU Directives and rulings of the European Court of Justice).
So, a non-starter I think.
I’m not so sure that anything in the Coronation Oath requires the monarch “…to resist to her utmost any supranational organisation which seeks to diminish the ability of the UK to govern herself.” There are two parts to the Coronation Oath. The second part rambles on about maintaining the Church of England and the Protestant faith as supreme so is not relevant. The first part says this (taken from the 1688 Act):
“Will You solemnely Promise and Sweare to Governe the People of this Kingdome of England and the Dominions thereto belonging according to the Statutes in Parlyament Agreed on and the Laws and Customs of the same?”
I think the clincher is “…according to the Statutes in Parlyament Agreed on and the Laws and Customs of the same?” Among those “Statutes” is the 1972 European Communities Act. This (which the Queen signed) among many other things enables Government ministers to lay regulations before Parliament to transpose Community/Union texts into formal UK law (for example, EU Directives and rulings of the European Court of Justice).
So, a non-starter I think.
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