Jamaica to break links with Queen

[the_gabih]

Jamaica's new Prime Minister, Portia Simpson Miller, has said she intends to make the island a republic, removing Queen Elizabeth as the head of state.

In her inaugural address, Ms Simpson Miller said the time had come for Jamaica to break with the British monarchy and have its own president.

The announcement comes ahead of celebrations to mark 50

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[lai_choi_san]

Jamaica is not a fiscal haven. I would be curious to know how the British monarchy would react if the same decision was made by the Bahamas government (btw : half of the fiscal havens belong to the Commonwealth).

[red_pill]

the monarchy dosent make money from being head of state of all these places, im pritty sure.

[lai_choi_san]

No, but the City does and given neither the Queen nor the Parliament can decide anything without the City's approval...

[red_pill]

parlement? mabby. proberbly, given the current goverment

the queen? no. at least, not in the fasion your surgesting. she takes the adivce of her minsters blah blah blah but she takes the advice of ALL her minsters, technicly. including the jamcian minsters. and the minsters of the bahamas. and just becous a country no longer has the queen as head of state, it dosent leave the commonwealth.

AND whilst city might dicate the uk goverment policy towards taxhavens, to the detriment of others, im not enterly sure that removing the queen as head of state would require any matiral change to the sitution in terms of laws.

i think if any goverment, up to and including the british goverment, made loud overtures or moves towards removing the queen as head of state, her offical reaction would be the same.

[lai_choi_san]

she takes the adivce of her minsters
Indeed and the Remembrancer has always the last word.

im not enterly sure that removing the queen as head of state would require any matiral change to the sitution in terms of laws.
Personally, I am convinced that the tax havens whose head of state is the Queen will benefit from a longer political protection in comparison with the others.

[red_pill]

he may have a word, it may even be last, but i dont think its the most influncsly. and, tbh, i think the pm has the last word.

and i cant agree with that assment. i dont think the queens postion as head of state effects the goverments postion on tax havens. i think the city dose, and the city likes them. but if they wernt commenwealth realms, i dont think it would make a diffrence.

the queen will always stand with her goverment, where ever. or at least, the office of the queen through the governer genrel will (becous the queen can, through the verise realms she is monarch off, sometimes have to hold contradictory postions)