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Right, the Queen was (unsurprisingly given her privilege) a closet Tory and couldn't be relied upon to stop dirty Tory shenanigans. I don't think anyone was disagreeing? Not sure what the point of this comment was apart from to assert your opinion on Brexit.

>>dTal+(OP)
> if the British parliament tried passing some truly terrible bill

> ... She passed the Brexit bill ...

> Of course she passed the Brexit bill

> not sure what the point of this comment was

It was to point out the absurdity of picking out this particular example given her long life and the many, many events and bills you could describe as 'terrible' along the way. If she was going to have broken her convention and tried to assert real power, that would be have a really odd one to pick.

BTW I didn't assert any opinion on Brexit itself, only that the level of hatred of it reached by some people is irrational.

> the Queen was ... a closet Tory

You don't actually know what the Queen's politics were. She lived through several Labour governments and never stopped their bills or expressed opinions on them either, that's just not the sort of monarch she was.

>>dTal+(OP)
I appreciated the passion in that comment as well as the detail on the Queen's life. I learned something today. That alone is point enough for me.