Jamaica vows to drop Queen as head of state

[Troll]

Portia Simpson Miller, the new prime minister of Jamaica, has vowed to abandon the Queen as head of state and turn the country into a republic.

Would have been more respectful if she and every nation (including the UK) in the Commonwealth could have waited until the Queen passed away and then held a referendum

[TiroFijo]

Would have been more respectful if she and every nation (including the UK) in the Commonwealth could have waited until the Queen passed away and then held a referendum

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[Jeff Maginty]

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[Doggy Styles]

That would bugger up our drug imports.

[mrdonuts]

does that mean we can stop those gun running drug smuggling yardies from coming in then

is this new jamaican woman related to diane abbott by anychance?

[AtW]

Send another Type 45 destroyer to their port and invite PM for a chat on board.

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[Troll]

Send another Type 45 destroyer to their port and invite PM for a chat on board.

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Not that arsed about maintaining the Commonwealth and as others have said if it reduces the amount of Yardies coming to these shores it would be beneficial

My point was that a 85 year old woman doesn't have that much time left and historically (especially in the war years) she was a positive for the nation it would have been polite to have left these kind of discussions until her passing and then let each nation decide for themselves whether to continue with Charlie or not

My only fear would be we end up with a President of England (hopefully the Scots will be long gone by then) Mr Tony Blair type non-entity which is just plain wrong, so we would need to think seriously of what we put in place of a constitutional Monarch

HTH

[AtW]

Kate with Pippa by her side would make a great Queen should, heavens forbid, Her Majesty leaves us ...

[lilelvis2000]

Didn't the Aussie's want to do the same thing? And its now faded away (I think). this may have just been a trial balloon.

[Troll]

Didn't the Aussie's want to do the same thing? And its now faded away (I think). this may have just been a trial balloon.

The Aussies can decide for themselves, but once its gone it's gone forever and what replaces it becomes interesting