Indeed, Churchill celebrates the creation of the constitutional monarchy and parliamentary system and the kings, queens, and leading nobles who helped create English democracy.īetween 14, England became a Protestant country under Henry VIII. While King Charles III reigns through Dame Cindy Kiro here, it is the Prime Minister who rules but only with the confidence of Parliament, and Parliament rules only with the confidence of the people.A rousing account of the early history of Britain, the work describes the great men and women of the past and their impact on the development of the legal and political institutions of the English.
It is far preferable to the conniptions constitutional amendments are raising from Australia to the United States. What Hipkins got right on the BBC is that New Zealand, and the United Kingdom, have unwritten constitutions. And we now have a Free Trade Agreement with the UK. The UK wants to join our CPTTP (Comprehensive and Progressive Trans Pacific Partnership). And it includes the world’s largest population, India, which is a democracy. The Commonwealth is comprised of independent and equal countries, now 56 in all, or all most half of the majority in the United Nations. We don’t want to be testing the water with both feet. The anti-monarchists need to show us how successful they will be. Our man in London personified local until very recently, and the world is getting smaller.ĭame Cindy Kiro Governor-General New Zealand and Prime Minister Chris Hipkins and guests arrive prior to the coronation ceremony of Britain's King Charles III. Shall we say, far abler and better than Labour’s man in London, Phil Goff? This argument that we need someone “local” seemingly flew right out the door. What was telling last weekend was the ease His Majesty showed with protocol / tikanga and etiquette in his meeting with King Tuheitia. Or worse, some ex-temporarily empowered politician reheated as a president.
Many prefer the monarchy over temporarily empowered politicians any day. Over the past 69 years, New Zealand has had two sovereigns but 15 governors-general and 18 prime ministers. To paraphrase Winston Churchill: “We may have the worst form of constitutional arrangements except for others that have been tried from time to time”. But in the 2016 referendum, the people didn’t.īeing one of 18 New Zealand Privy Councillors, but the only one leading a political party, one wonders why we’d abandon the monarchy in this new Carolean era (the era of King Charles III). In the blue corner, the other “Chris” said, “New Zealand will become a republic, eventually.” Of course, they both supported changing our New Zealand flag too. At least it was clearer than when he stumbled over what a woman is. When Chris Hipkins appeared on the BBC’s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, he described himself as a “technical republican”.
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