A bid to end the ban on monarchs and heirs to the throne marrying Roman Catholics was introduced at Westminster yesterday in a bid to reverse “centuries of ingrained anti-Catholic prejudice” in Britain’s constitution.
Liberal Democrat MP Evan Harris’s Royal Marriages and Succession to the Crown (Prevention of Discrimination) Bill also seeks to end the discrimination against women in the line of succession under the 300-year-old Act of Settlement.
However, what the Oxford MP’s private member’s bill does not attempt to do is to change the law so that Catholics can become king or queen.
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He told The Herald that his bill was not the vehicle for this as it would require the support of the UK Government, which was not minded at present to make such a major change given that it would lead to the disestablishment of the Church of England.
We keep fiddling while Rome burns. Mr Brown is spending £33,000 [$60-70,000 say] per head of population shovelling it into our greedy, incompetent banks in the silly hope that they will lend it on, which they won’t, except to Russian ‘billionaires’; enough to send the entire population to university.