Oh it's simple. If the king wants the UK to follow his last french counterpart's fate, this would be a romantically dramatic way of doing this.
I was going to make a joke about how King Charles should dissolve Elon in a vat of acid, but I'm not sure if that's comes off as promoting violence in our current climate of oligarchicide.
It would definitely be skirting the line of what we would moderate, but I think we'd probably let it go just because it's a comic book villain ending rather than saying "shoot him in the head" or whatever.
Plus, it would obviously be a joke.
Edit: all I can picture is this, but with Elon's face on it.
Well, he has sausage fingers, but he can still do something like what Mummy likely would have done if some South African upstart tried to tell her what to do:
To paraphrase another King "Will no one rid us of this turbulent billionaire?
It is my hope that the UK adds a second parliament, just to give Musk the middle finger.
We have the Houses (plural) of Parliament. The fully elected House of Commons and then the, uh, not really elected House of Lords.
I think King Charles should do it. That way no more King Charles.
Can someone get Lord Sugar drunk and have him express a similar view about the US?
"err, hic the unites, uniting, united states should separism, seapar, separate the head of state role from the,, ,uhh,,,,, head of government. They can have gonger, er, congress appoint a cereminimum, er ceremonial head of state with reserve powers to dissolve congress..... burp"
I can smell Musk's royal envy all the way from Helsinki.
Ol' stinky should just shut up
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