Bob of Speakers' Corner

That's it.

That's all he can do.

But I actually want there to be a change to the constitution.

I either want the monarch to be separated from the church,

and for him not to make the vow to defend the faith because it is a really serious thing to make a vow before God and then not act upon it and then not follow it.

And no monarch has and can.

And so actually it's hypocritical and it mocks God to make the monarch take a vow to God that he can't keep.

So we either need to get rid of that part of the constitutional arrangement or, and this is my preference,

We actually give him a power of veto, that we give the monarch a power of veto according to his Christian conscience, so long as it's not an explicit promise in a manifesto.

Because a lot of times governments pass things that are not in their manifestos, like the abortion bill that they're trying to pass or the euthanasia bill that they've tried to pass or getting... I'm not sure about if getting rid of juries was in or out of the Labour manifesto.

But lots of governments, they pass things that... I can almost guarantee it wouldn't have been.

Yeah.

Well, a lot of governments do that kind of stuff.

And I think that I would want the monarch to have the power to veto things according to his conscience...

which is a Christian monarch should be a Christian conscience, so long as they're not an explicit manifesto pledge, which is the balance between his promise to God being one that he can fulfil and the democratic mandate of a government.

My message to the whole of England on St George's Day is this.

St George is loved by the English, but not just by the English.

There are Nigerians that can fly the St.

George's flag.

There are Palestinians.