it's not so much pedantry but one of my pet niggles... people using "then" instead of "than" and vice versa and "could care less" instead of couldn't care less" twinned with "could give a shit" instead of couldn't give a shit"
we all have our niggles and that's one of them
now as for your main point if there was mass civil unrest, what do you think the armed forces would be called in to do? (hint : it's not join in with the civil unrest)

have them

You also should consider that if the military really did hate the Prime Minister, the oath does make for a very good excuse to not listen to him, if forced to make a choice. Even if they usually could care less about it.

you never mentioned any survey, not at all.
you haev never had any military experience have you? Colchester Military Corrective Training Centre were the words that sprang to mind with regards to your statement.
And BTW it's "Couldn't care less".. which indicates that you don't care less. if you COULD care less then that says you do actually give a shit.

A lot of people in the UK actually like the monarchy, including lots of people in the army who technically swear allegiance to *her*.

the armed services don't get a choice, it's not a matter of fact that they "like" the queen, it's a matter of fact that the oath says that they swear "allegiance to her majesty the queen, her heirs and successors and the officers set above me"
i know as i once took that oath as a member of The Parachute Regiment and to be quite frank none of us gave two flying fucks about the queen or her heirs and successors.
If you had actually read the links you'll see she and the plug lugged Charles have actually used the veto on several occasions.

you having a laugh?? this is the 21st century! why the hell should an accident of birth dictate your station in life or the influence you have over affairs of state???
As it happens the queen and prince Charles DO have a fair bit of say and have actually VERY much influenced things and can VETO bills and acts of parliament and have done so on various occasions
check these :-
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/jan/14/secret-papers-royals-veto-bills
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2262613/Queen-Prince-Charles-given-39-chances-veto-legislation-dont-want-law.html
and to be quite frank FUCK THAT.
they also cost the tax payer a fortune but the main point being... why the fuck should some unelected bunch have the right to veto democratically proposed and approved acts and bills just because of an accident of birth.???
value for money my aching ass , it's an affront to democracy and this idiocy has no place in the 21st century... not at all

isn't it hilarious how NON MASONS like to think they know more about Freemasonry than people to actually ARE masons? it's fucking brilliantly amusing!
the only secrets in Freemasonry are the "means of recognition", which are.. handshakes, passwords, certain stances and certain signs along with certain parts of the ritual.. and that's it.
ALL UGLE blue lodges have the same regalia and all Grand lodge of Scotland Blue lodges... have their own design and there is absolutely NOTHING secret about that. In Scotland we find it hilarious as it's all the same and thus once you have visited one English lodge you have pretty much seem them ALL as it's all the same ,same same. In Scotland there is something quite funky about seeing the little differences in the ritual in each lodge.
It's patently obvious you think you are an expert but let me tell you, you are far from it..... all i can smell is conspiracy theory craptastica. EVERY Grand lodge , such as Scotland and England is a separate and distinct authority. there is no world governing body, to be quite frank i could NEVER see any Grand lodge giving up it's "Sovereignty" as it were to any other body.
Much like in america, each state has it's own Grand Lodge and i guarantee you that there would be no Grand lodge there that would cede it's authority to another states lodge or come under another lodge.... there are exception and oddities such as those lodges set up there under the auspices of the Grand lodge of Scotland or the UGLE. those however i would say with certainty are a minuscule exception.
But hey... you MUST know better than me, i've only been a mason for 22 years and been to lodges all over Scotland,England, Colorado,NJ,NY,Malta,Portugal,Germany and Sweden and I patently know nothing eh?
You make me laugh a lot to be quite frank... there is a vast difference between what you think you know and what actually IS.
P.S. you might want to work on what reality actually is,and facts and truth. Oh and paranoia . Also note for someone with dyslexia i do quite well thanks very much ;)

LOL.. you do realise that Scottish and English Freemasonry are also separate and distinct?. Both have their own Grand Grand Lodge.
Scottish Lodges have a humorously and healthy laugh at English lodges as ALL the regalia is the same everywhere as is the ritual. whereas in Scotland each lodge has it's own regalia design and version of the ritual. In Scotland the 4th(Mark) Degree is done in the blue Lodge, in England it's a separate appendant lodge organisation. In Scotland there is no Oath to The Queen/King.. in England there most certainly is.
Then we get to the varius orders and such other than the blue lodge such as the royal arch and so on.. In Scotland the degrees are worked differently and fully. Not so much in England when they do Scottish Rite rituals(as opposed to York Rite) whereby the English are, in many cases, conferred degrees instead of actually going through the ritual... this due to the "jacobite flavour" of them.. this was not to Hanoverian tastes way back when and thus it was changed there.
It always makes me laugh my balls off when some tin foil hat merchant comes up with more nonsense about Freemasonry and this is one such occasion..... You see in Scotland we didn't have the big bad problems that the Grand Lodge of England had with the police in Freemasonry and the allegation and actual corruption for which London flying squad became very famous in the 70's and 80's.
Thus in answer to your silliness... there NEVER will be a single UK police force, not EVER and this is mostly due to the guarantees set up in the acxt of the union which guarantees the continuation of the Scottish legal system and with that Scottish police only within Scotland, albeit recently for the likes of the G8 of a few years ago, reinforcements were drafted in from England for that. Those guys who came up left a bad taste and earned a terrible reputation due to the way they treated people and spoke to people which is what actually kicked off the trouble(it was specifically the Manchester police verbally and in a couple of cases physically being abusive to locals and attempting to "kettle" people. In Scotland there is a very and i mean VERY different approach to policing even when i comes to protests etc. As was made abundantly clear when i was helping to blockade Faslane naval base, the home of the UK trident missiles), the police were calm, polite, humorous and it all went off in gentile fashion. I got arrested along with 44 others and we were all treated very respectfully by the police, unlike how that generally goes in England as i know from experience.
Also with the referendum on Scottish independence next year and there only needing to be a 5% swing in the vote to attain an Yes vote then this further reinforces the no chance factor of a UK police force.
to sum up.. you talk pants and know bugger all about Freemasonry and the major...MAJOR differences between the Scottish and English Fraternities..... yeah.. plural.. are they are different organisations.
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3 mobile don't filter it at all. never even had to ask to have any filters lifted.

and you came across it coz you were watching porn!

No such thing as "The UK Police" you have the various regional police in England and Wales, you have the recently unified Scottish police service now known as Police Scotland and you have the PSNI(Police Service Northern Ireland. England and Wales are under a single legal system, Scotland and NI have separate and distinct legal systems.
There has never and will never be a unified "UK" Police service

BOOM! BOOM! Basil! :P

the only main stream left of centre party in the 'UK' only serves the Scottish Electorate bud, it's the Scottish National Party who hold to the principles of free healthcare, free education, free care for the elderly, free prescriptions..yadda yadda yadda. The other parts of the UK, as you say are pretty well stuffed with the major jumps to the right labour has taken. i am pretty sure that Kier Hardy would not just be spinning but shouting "WTF?" in his grave at what is called the Labour party these days.
eennaarbrak in England you don't have much of a national health care system left at all, it's privatisation is pretty much done with ALL things now out to tender now.

David Cameron... a socialist? BWAHAHAHAHA! what planet do you live on?? that prick is slightly right of Atilla the Hun!

at the prices they charge bud, why go for anything else but the one plan?
never really had much of a prob with adult content tbh. was sent various filthy links by friends and they just worked... at times, much to my dismay.. you know what some links friends can send you!
as you say always room for improvement but they ARE damned good! i got an S3 with the one plan for 31 a month on a 24 month contract, which is only £6 over the cost of the one plan so an S3 for £120 effectively.. i am happy as hell with them.

well as someone else mentioned before, Three, who are my mobile service provider have absolutely NO PLANS to charge more for 4G and will also keep their unlimited, unfiltered and the ability to tether into their plans and they are cheaper than the rest.
i reckon your house and left nut now belong to Three :P