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You know, I still haven't heard any part of that story other than the punchline.

1. Constitution mandates that the King must give royal consent to anything passed by the Riksdag and the Realm Council.
2. King refuses to sign certain things passed by the Riksdag and the Realm Council that he doesn't like. He tries to veto it.
3. Confusion. What do we do now? We can't enforce it as law if the King refuses to give royal consent!
4. The Riksdag comes up with ingenious legal fiction. Even though the person of the king may not consent to the bill, the office of the king must, by definition, consent to it.
5. Therefore, the actual signing of the bill is just a formality. If the king cannot perform that action himself, then a stamp can be used just as well.
6. Riksdag and Realm Council establish that this is how the Constitution is to be interpreted, and orders artisans to create stamp of King's signature.
7. The King of Sweden is LITERALLY a rubber stamp.
 
Here's a little spoiler from me & Nofix's wikibox TL.

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1. Constitution mandates that the King must give royal consent to anything passed by the Riksdag and the Realm Council.
2. King refuses to sign certain things passed by the Riksdag and the Realm Council that he doesn't like. He tries to veto it.
3. Confusion. What do we do now? We can't enforce it as law if the King refuses to give royal consent!
4. The Riksdag comes up with ingenious legal fiction. Even though the person of the king may not consent to the bill, the office of the king must, by definition, consent to it.
5. Therefore, the actual signing of the bill is just a formality. If the king cannot perform that action himself, then a stamp can be used just as well.
6. Riksdag and Realm Council establish that this is how the Constitution is to be interpreted, and orders artisans to create stamp of King's signature.
7. The King of Sweden is LITERALLY a rubber stamp.

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Out of curiosity, when and which king?

EDIT: … Jesus Christ. That's the last GIF I expected to see twice in a row.
 

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I like this, and may riff on the same theme. What is the Patriot Party, though? Clare Short is Irish, but it can't be the Irish Patriot party as she's representing an English seat and Ireland doesn't seem to be part of the Union.
This is the 'Patriot Whig', 'Patriot Boys' or 'Opposition Whig' group led by Pulteney in OTL; they weren't formalised as a separate party in OTL anymore than the later Rockinghamites and Grenvillites were, but it's meant to be a marriage of eighteenth and twenty-first century attitudes so the parties have a formal identity.

The analogy here was that the Patriots' main raison d'etre was opposing Walpole for going on and on and on, gathering power to himself, and his foreign policy--so as Blair seemed like a good mainstream Whig analogue, Short and Iraq seemed the obvious comparison. However, it would have been better if I could have found a politician who has close ties with Prince Charles, given the OTL Patriots' links with Prince Frederick.

The later Irish group you mention was I believe inspired by the earlier British one (at least in its name), as were the Patriot revolutionaries in the Netherlands a few years later who ended up being crushed by the Prussians.

There are lots of variations and interpretations of this theme that could be done, picking which bits of an era you want to represent...
 
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Here's a new Wikibox challenge: try to replicate a political landscape from your country's past with modern politicians.

1968: Take Two.

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The GOP is hopelessly fragmented after the one man who might have unified it was assassinated following the California primary. Their party's convention saw antiwar protestors rioting, a walkout by social conservatives over civil unions and abortion, and actual haggling over who would be the nominee. Although the news media was a wee bit miffed over the fact that, y'know, the real horse-trading took place behind closed doors in No Smoking back rooms. Still, with the social conservatives alienated, the GOP doubled-down on moderation with Susan Collins to appeal to disaffected "Hillary Democrats" on a ticket with the Vice President.

The Democrats, meanwhile, unified behind the man who many believe would have won eight years beforehand if not for Republican shenanigans. This isn't a time for a hopeful candidate with a thin resume, or for a woman who voted to invade Iraq and then Iran. No, the Democrats want the old hand who has promised "peace with security" in the Middle East... or at least that was the narrative at the Democratic convention. Not that the disheartened supporters of Gore's primary rivals are all that thrilled (or surprised, really) about another white dude taking the nod.
 
Hrm... If Gore is Nixon, then in the next election, the Republican he's facing has got to be from the really radical wing of the party. Someone who's massively popular with his own little fan club, but whom everyone else is convinced could never win due to being too extreme, but whose own fans are convinced that if he's just nominated, he will win for sure. An outsider. Someone who has made himself known for his opposition to the war that his own party paradoxically started... Hrm...

Of course... ;)

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I anticipate that Ron Paul wins Mississippi and loses everywhere else.
 
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Hrm... If Gore is Nixon, then in the next election, the Republican he's facing has got to be from the really radical wing of the party. Someone who's massively popular with his own little fan club, but whom everyone else is convinced could never win due to being too extreme, but whose own fans are convinced that if he's just nominated, he will win for sure. An outsider. Someone who has made himself known for his opposition to the war that his own party paradoxically started... Hrm...

Of course... ;)

Got it in one!

Pelosi would be Ford, and Jimmy Carter's stand-in would be some obscure nobody. Let's say...Brian Sandoval.
 
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