tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11340801.post6938602463618093146..comments2011-11-23T03:30:24.890+13:00Comments on "Elephants and the Law" by Dean Knight: Tinkering with the line of successionDean Knighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03069298298745322597noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11340801.post-38667882876939207842011-11-23T03:30:24.890+13:002011-11-23T03:30:24.890+13:00Nice try Terry. But pigs will fly...Nice try Terry. But pigs will fly...Dean Knighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03069298298745322597noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11340801.post-40672354931218189692011-11-18T11:52:23.095+13:002011-11-18T11:52:23.095+13:00Sorry Dean I had not been watching your posts for ...Sorry Dean I had not been watching your posts for a while so missed this one and as your most royal loving friend feel I must respond. The proposed changes are appropriate and we should support them. Your general comments (as usual on this sort of topic) are somewhat unfair. It is perfectly possible that our future King or Queen could be a New Zealander. A child of the Duke and Duchess may well fall madly in love with a Kiwi on OE – maybe met at one of the fabulous Buckingham Palace garden parties that we OE kiwis can quite easily get invited to. Such a romance could lead to that Kiwi marrying into the royal family. Any child of that union would be as much a Kiwi as a Brit. If one of the parents was a Kiwi then it not impossible to imagine that the birth might even take place in New Zealand. So then you have a child who has a Kiwi parent born in a maternity unit in … Winton (for example). That royal would Kiwi as! And even if that never happens there are still all the very good reasons for sticking with an unelected monarchy to supply us with the pomp and ceremony we want in a head of state rather than take the risk of being responsible for voting for a president who might turn out as badly as some of those we have seen around the world. Cheers TerryTerry Sugruehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16394233615112408192noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11340801.post-24931258105258965342011-11-01T07:17:26.473+13:002011-11-01T07:17:26.473+13:00In April this year Key told the nation:
http://m....In April this year Key told the nation:<br /><br />http://m.nbr.co.nz/article/nz-supports-changes-royal-succession-key-nn-91030 <br /><br />'that New Zealand would support moves to change the royal line of succession rules and allow a first-born daughter to become Queen'.<br /><br />Which is not the same as telling us that he had on behalf of NZ had actually agreed to this'.Chris Websterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07481470326632342030noreply@blogger.com