No comment to make. Saw the headline, noticed the author, didn't bother reading the script.

Though one could agree with most of the above comments, might say that I have no complaints about our Queen Liz, who has pretty well followed the doctrine of the English philosopher John Locke, who secretly organised the 1688 Glorious Revolution introducing a People's Democracy - or so he thought

It was under pressure that the ersatz William and Mary were invited in from Holland, Holland, but with protets from the knocked out royalty section, the Royal Prerogative was installed - said to be only symbolic in answer to protests from the ordinary majority.

Thus the democratic code was first broken hundreds of years later by George Three who rather than letting the American settlers have the same self-government that Australia gained later, used the so-called symbolic prerogative to order out the troops, an invasion that the Homeland Brits finished up losing.

The sad fact is that the winners, the now unipolar Pax Americana, still foolishly de-democratised their own Republican Constitution by allowing a similar prerogative for the US President as was allowed for George Three of Britain.

So we have the US George W' still allowed to swing the war club, with the majority of American voters wanting him to be given the order of the boot, rather than still be allowed to keep on buggering up American law, as well as US democracy.

Ain't it grand? Net foreign debt (adds 2% to interest rates)spiralling out of control, our manufacturing collapsed to bottom of the ladder, our independent community retailers being slaughtered without a wimper, 30% of men under 44 can't afford to form a family, national welfare budgets blowing out with our reduced capacity to fund them; these currents have apparently irresistible momentum, and destroy our "real" sovereignty, ie the extent to which we can determine our future. Meanwhile, our lemmings ignore the destruction of our sinews of survival for the distractions of mere appearances. Will the world accord our trade greater consideration because of a cosmetic "makeover"? Under a republic, will the the newly-inspired Republicans lead a national effort to pull up our socks by reconstructing industry? Slow the growth of debt? Not bloody likely! Our hard-headed asian neighbours must despair of our juvenile behavior. Not to worry, it'll be the less-privileged, you know, working class, who suffer our banana economy.