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In the end.
The procedural rules seem clear that once submitted, a nomination can't be withdrawn unless the candidate nominated has withdrawn:
"All nominations will remain valid once submitted unless the
nomination is formally withdrawn (if the nominated candidate has
withdrawn in writing to the General Secretary). MPs and MEPs who
nominated a candidate who withdraws or is disqualified will be entitled
to submit a further nomination prior to the deadline for PLP and EPLP
nominations. Nomination forms will be re-issued to affected MPs and
MEPs."
I give up!
He had to resign when he was charged a few years ago; Eleanor Laing took his place and then when Evans was acquitted he'd lost his job (and substantial salary) for no reason.
And as partner countries Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, Territory of Ukraine, Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Palestine, Syria, Tunisia.
Even Russia.
Not merely do you not have to be in the EU, you don't even have to be in Europe.
Bloomberg's chances are considerably lower than 0.1%.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/10701694/queen-deeply-upset-harry-meghan-markles-exit-civil-war/.
Looks like they are about to be cut off, Meghan really is Wallace Simpson 2 with Harry a latter day Edward VIII
This royal debacle -- following on from Andrew -- should encourage all of us to take a proper look at how big a royal family we want or need & how it should be funded.
A seriously slimmed down, much cheaper, Royal Family looks sensible to me.
They'll have to go and go for good. Which means giving up the titles, the house and the money.
People only accept the royal family as it is because no other option has been presented.
If the royal family was Queen, Philip, Charles, Camilla, William, Kate + their kids full stop that would be quite enough.
By full stop I mean nobody else gets anything - no titles, no patronages, no cash, no security guards, nothing.
The Queen can of course privately fund anyone else if she wishes.
Prince Charles is planning to strip back the royal family to just him, William, Harry, their wives and children when he becomes king in wake of Prince Andrew's Jeffrey Epstein scandal.
Charles, 71, wants to cut down on the number of working royals after the Duke of York was forced to step down over his links to the convicted US padeophile.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7743661/Prince-Charles-cut-royal-family-just-William-Harry-wives-children-Andrew-scandal.html
Harry was at his most important as "the spare" but even that went out the window when William had George.
Harry's only saving grace now is that Diana was his mother... And even that becomes more insignificant with each passing year.
I think this is really where Harry and Meghan have gone wrong within the Firm. They seemed to think they were much important players than they actually were. Turns out with HMQ>Charles>William>George> succession keeping the Royals secure for the next seventy years H and Meg just aren't that important.
Go. Stay. Who cares.
Let him pay for them. That's a serious annual cost to fund even if he has £20m in the bank.
And if he is cut-off properly, I wonder how long the £20m will last?
Let's hope they are fully enforced.
I hope she goes back to her career, and Harry becomes a House Husband, and that they live happily ever after. The Windsors are a pretty toxic dysfunctional family, so better off away from it.
It's a bit like how Peaches Geldof OD'ed on heroin just like Paula Yates. We repeat what we learn in childhood. The same dramas play out as echoes of the past.
Larkin was right.
But that's not what they have stated they are doing, or intending to do at least, so your hopes for them is going further than their own stated hopes, and whatever the strains they have they officially at least don't share your view on the toxicity of the family, so either you're projecting your view onto them, or their are being less than honest about what path they want to take.
If Prince Harry wants to be the new Prince of Bel Air let him.
After all he can come back anytime he is needed.
The Royal Family having an American branch was always going to happen since the first colony was established, just in case we need a King Ralph:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FEsismdGWY
The Commonwealth realms I doubt will see much change anytime soon, in Canada certainly PM Trudeau is a royalist as are the main opposition Conservatives. In Australia the PM is a royalist too though Labor are led by a republican, in New Zealand PM Ardern is a Republican but the Deputy PM and her coalition Partner Winston Peters is a monarchist
“Let then eat staycations”
It is interesting that the mentioned North America rather than USA. Maybe they will settle in Canada.
I see it more like a John Lennon retreat from public life, at least as far as possible.
Harry is a war veteran from a broken home, who lost his mother as an adolescent. It would strain anybody's mental health, so he deserves to be cut some slack.
The one thing I cannot understand is this apparent not even letting anyone else know before going to the press. That's just discourteous, and since as you've noted some involvement however small was probably intended, its not simply a matter of them being private citizens who can do whatever they like. It seems designed to spark a crisis and a complete break.
For some reason the conjunction of archaic royal formality and modern emotional me me me sensibilities seems apt to recent news.
Pleasant night to all, especially Her Majesty.
Over a million likes in support so far including mine.
The current situation with Harry is not what I was expecting, but if the royal family had been mad enough to ask me a year or two ago "what do you think we should do with these two?" my first response would be "send them to Canada and find something useful, decently high profile and relatively uncontroversial to do". Imagine they wouldn't be best suited to sticking to the uncontroversial, but they do have drive and a degree of relatability, so if energy was expended in the right direction, they could potentially delay republicanism by a generation.
He's behind Warren in the latest Yougov poll - and looks a touch overdone at around 4.2 on Betfair to me.
In the polling average he's still a mile behind Biden who will be ahead in delegates after South Carolina and Nevada.