The Royal Wedding

If Prince William & Katherine’s first is a girl?

She could be his heir, regardless of gender, under a change to the laws of succession being considered by the Government: Reported Gordon Rayner, the Telegraph’s Chief Reporter 19 Nov 2010.

  The Cabinet Office said discussions had been held with Commonwealth countries that would be affected by changes in the laws of succession. Lorely Burt, a Liberal Democrat MP, has tabled a Commons motion calling on the Government to “end these outdated, sexist and anti-Catholic aspects of the constitution”. Typical Lib-Dem window dressing eh?

  Crikey me! The ink for the marriage certificate has not yet been manufactured and the chattering classes start banging on about such irrelevancies. Probably just to fill up their quota of parliamentary privilege or a spare acre of rainforest. So maybe it’s time to inject a bit of Tom Stack logic into the hysteria. Cool things down so to speak.

  All this hysteria about succession and we don’t even know if  blanks are being fired yet, so it’s wait and see time. It’s certainly not open season for under-employed hacks or MPs to don the speculation cap. Leave it BE or the boredom threshold might peak before you know it.

  The only bit of logic I can add personally to all this conjecture, is the age old Peter Smith Maxim. Pete was a man I met in the early days at the LHR Hatton Cross Engineering Base circa 1960 when a similar argument raged on a local level. A close associate’s wife had given birth to e new baby daughter and the discussion turned to what it takes to produce a boy or a girl.

  The female shape, we were reliably informed requires one more chromosome than the male form. So a man therefore could only proclaim himself a man if he produced a daughter. For a few brief moments that appeared to be the winning argument and the colleague concerned was grinning beatifically. He was a proud man, who in the full knowledge of his peers, had beyond any shadow of doubt, proved his manhood. Until that is Pete stepped up to the rostrum to deliver this killing aside:

  “Any fool,” he interrupted, “can knock a hole in a kettle, but it takes a craftsman to put the spout on.”

  So leave it orf you speculators, who want to push the equality agenda, there ain’t no such thing. Everybody ain’t made equal and you cannot legislate for this. As indeed you cannot legislate against attitudes of mind. For under the surface a volcanic eruption is forming and one day Matthew a bit of subduction happens and it blows.

  So for the time being progenitor rules OK! It’s stood the test of time and it didn’t stand in the way of our present arrangement. If ain’t broke, why try to fix it for the sake of a tiny minority who can’t come to terms with their underlying feelings of inferiority and learn to live with it.

Watch this space, I’ll be back!

Tom.