[disco]

OK then, we'll ignore the constitutional debate for a moment and concentrate on the Queen Mother herself:

She supported white minority rule in Rhodesia, refered to anyone black as a "nig-nog" or a "blackamoor", distrusted Lord Mountbatten, viceroy of India, "for giving away the empire" and disliked his wife because "her mother was half-Jewish".

She refered to Germans as "Huns", was opposed to immigration and thought that black Africans could not run their own countries.

She took £634,000 from the civil list yet had a £40 million overdraft (guess who bailed her out...), spent most of her later life drinking, gambling and blowing large amounts of our money. She gambled on the horses so much that she had her own personal bookie wire installed in her house to receive up to the minute horse racing results.

FOR OVER 50 years the Queen Mother was responsible for guarding royal documents that detailed the abdicated King Edward's relations with Hitler and the Nazis. She had all the former king's papers sealed in the vaults of Windsor Castle, including captured German war documents that summarised the Windsors' meeting with Hitler in 1937. Within those documents were the notes of the plan to restore the Duke of Windsor to the throne if the Nazis won the war.

Now I'm sorry if any of this offends, but I refuse to stand by and watch you all make fools of yourselves by making tributes like this to a racist, bigoted leach.