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The Queen And Brexit
What are your thoughts?
http:// www.the guardia n.com/m edia/20 16/mar/ 09/pala ce-sun- queen-b acks-br exit-ip so
Part of me totally believes that she said what has been reported, because when Nick Clegg was questioned, he responded that he "didn't recall Her Majesty making those comments."
To me, "don't recall" is political code for "Yep...it happened, but if I say I don't recall it, and in future it's proved it happened, I've got a get out clause."
Also, if the Queen had expressed support for the leave campaign, Clegg is hardly likely to admit it, right?
But the other side of me thinks that the Queen is way too careful to blab about this...especially in front of MPs!
But then the *other* part of me looks at the reports of this and can see that the papers (pro exit) are all over the place on the detail of the conversation (it happened at a lunch, no - a dinner, in front of Nick Clegg, no - Michael Gove etc)
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Part of me totally believes that she said what has been reported, because when Nick Clegg was questioned, he responded that he "didn't recall Her Majesty making those comments."
To me, "don't recall" is political code for "Yep...it happened, but if I say I don't recall it, and in future it's proved it happened, I've got a get out clause."
Also, if the Queen had expressed support for the leave campaign, Clegg is hardly likely to admit it, right?
But the other side of me thinks that the Queen is way too careful to blab about this...especially in front of MPs!
But then the *other* part of me looks at the reports of this and can see that the papers (pro exit) are all over the place on the detail of the conversation (it happened at a lunch, no - a dinner, in front of Nick Clegg, no - Michael Gove etc)
Answers
The Queen is a constitution al monarch with no (official) bias in issues concerning the governance of the realm. If she confides such views to a politician who is not acting in his official role, they do not exist in the public domain. They are nothing more than meaningless tittle tattle fit only for the redtop gutter press.
21:51 Wed 09th Mar 2016