Posted on 06/13/2008 12:26:51 PM PDT by C19fan
The UN Human Rights Council said the UK must "consider holding a referendum on the desirability or otherwise of a written constitution, preferably republican".
The council has 29 members including Saudi Arabia, Cuba and Sri Lanka.
It was the Sri Lankan envoy who raised concerns over the British monarchy.
The resulting report said Britain should have a referendum on the monarchy and the need for a written constitution with a bill of rights.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Please. This shows why UN is worthless.
You give them too much credit.
WTF? Did the council make the same recommendation for Saudi Arabia?
I am loathe to remind the U.N. that the British have the grandaddy of ALL bills of rights - Magna Carta.
Things are coming to a head quickly.
I wonder how ugly it will get.
Do they recommend hangings, or firing squad?
Really, maybe it’s time for the U.S, Britain, Australia and New Zealand to leave the U.N., kick them out of New York and back to the Hague. We could leave a note:
“You’re on your own.”
Are the Muslem folks loyal to the Crown?
If you listen carefully, you can hear a chorus of voices shouting, muttering, snarling a right proper: “Oh, f*ck off” from the British side of the pond.
Can you even imagine what Iron Maggie Thatcher would have responded had they suggested this during her tenure?
World should get rid of the UN says all thinking people.
Never confuse a real right with a UN "right".
Why didn't they say the same thing to a real monarchy like Saudi Arabia instead of a country where the monarchy is little more than a tourist trap?

Queen Victoria to UN: "WE ARE NOT AMUSED"
I got question Snugs and Blam do you want get rid of monarchy if so there nothing in UK that tourists would go for
Let the British people make their own decisions .The UN is way out of line telling a Sovereign nation what to do .
Saudi Arabia needs to get rid of it’s terrible dictatorship.
The UN has no right to tell any country how it should be governed.
They have a despiciable record in Africa, where the king of the day is whomever....
This country has endured for hundreds of years with their system, and it works.
Maybe that is what is really bothering the UN.
The UN just cannot stand any country that can keep a decent system of government for any long time.
The UN needs to be let drift for itself by the US, Britain, Australia, and other sucessful countries.
Nice to see the UN meddling in some other government for a change, instead of ours.
“Syrian representatives accused the UK of discriminating against Muslims and Iran complained about the UK’s record on tackling sexual discrimination. “
Wow. Just wow. The sheer magnitude of hypocrisy here is staggering. Seriously, we need to do away with that crap. All it is is a forum for these hypocrites to bash on the western world, and we pay for it. Good lord. What an absolute travesty.
What the heck business is it of theirs? Does the UN Charter no longer recognize the sovereignty of nations?
I don’t understand why Britain holds onto the Royal Twits, but the decision to get rid of them is no more my business than the UN’s. I really do wish we’d bolt from the UN and serve them with an eviction notice.
Um word to UN, the Monarchy is kind of a figure head. Why don’t you work on the 54% of your members that are not democracies?
Maybe Britain could consider it just as soon as the UN General Secretary stops treating the UN as a monarchy.
“I dont understand why Britain holds onto the Royal Twits”
Funny....for some unknown reason..(pride ? heritage?) the Brits like their Royals... and this is their right, which support.
The UN Human Rights Council is about as useful and relevant as the Nobel Peace Prize committee. Only the intellectually challenged take it seriously. But as the Brits would say “ It’s good for a laugh”
SOD OFF, YOU BLOODY WANKERS. Yobs the lot of y’uh.
Perhaps Britain should get rid of the UN.
The Monarchy has proved itself to be more durable, more useful, more mindful of human rights and infinitely more amusing than that crackerbox full of frauds over on Turtle Bay.
Give Turtle Bay back to the turtles!
Even Geroge III, in the darkest days of the American Revolution, was a vastly more humane and civilized ruler than those UN subhumans are today.
This must be Scrappleface.
The U.N. Human Rights Commission is in denial about the abuses of human dignity by dictators around the World, while it recommends getting rid of the British monarchy. Yeah, that’s the ticket. This organization has become a parody of itself.
Saudi Arabia has a Bill of Rights? Who knew?
Kalee rolls eyes
The Islamic “Republics” recommended stoning by backing up a dump truck full of boulders and then pulling the lever.
Seems like their humane ways of executing adulterers on Friday afternoons after prayer in the mosque doesn’t get much press these days.
Inarguable proof that the UN should be put down like a terminally ill, mangy old dog. Without the monarchy, England will have almost NOTHING of interest any more.
um...what form of rule does Saudi Arabia have? A type of monarchy no?
“Britain should get rid of the monarchy, says UN”
This is only the first step. The next one will be to suggest that the UK should accept the UN as its head of government.
After that, it will be demanded that the US Congress be replaced by a UN agency thereby establishing the blessings of internationalism and globalism. All non-Muslim and non-communist nations will comply.
Lights out.
So some Brits are still pissed we kicked their ass. And some of the snooty eleats indignant we don’t suck up to their Global Warming standards that they don’t even apply. And lately I hear they are not all hepped up on joining the EU and eliminating the pound.
Hey you snooty girly men, see where your arrogance and ignorance is getting you?
Join the rabble, Join us in riding the world of the UN forever.
Hear Me Now, Believe Me Later
Hey you snooty girly men, see where your arrogance and ignorance is getting you?
Join the rabble, Join us in riding the world of the UN forever.
Hear Me Now, Believe Me Later
I’d love for The Queen to tell Banky to kiss her royal hiney.
The u.n., when not raping and killing babies, they’re attacking old women.
Not to mention the top-notch dental care.
What we are looking at here are harbingers of things to come. The UN is acting a if were a foregone conclusion that their man in the US, Hussein Obama, were already elected. We’ll see a lot more of UN tyranny with Obama in there, count on it.
It would be nice if this new mayor of London was prime minister. He might go Thatcher one better in telling the UN where to get off.
Boy that would be nice if we can get someone in charge with a big pair. Out of the UN and get the un out of the us.
England has the best constitution in the world. Of course it isn't a written constitution. That would bring up questions of language and other matters of endless debate.
I honestly thought this was satire. See, once upon a time there was this King named John...and then a few hundred years later there was this other guy named Cromwell...I mean, I'm just suggesting that it's entirely possible that the Brits have already sort of worked this thing out among themselves without (gasp!) the UN's help. It's like the British ambassador to Saudi Arabia saying "Know what, chaps? This place could really be improved if you'd just bring in a little sand..."
You don't get out much, do you?
That mess up comment that so trueeee LOLOLOL!
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