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As in the title, what would be the result of the adoption of changes to the commonwealth along the lines of Powell’s 1953 Speech on the Royal Titles Bill?

(link: https://www.enochpowell.net/fr-74.html)


Imagine that the uk parliament were hypnotised by ASBs in the early 1950’s and decided on the following or similar principles and rules for membership of the british commonwealth of nations:


( The commonwealth will be definitively named the british commonwealth of nations


A declaration that the realm of the monarch remains undivided and that the title of the monarch shall be the same in all members that have retain the british monarch as their head of state, and that any changes to the title must occur simultaneously and with the consent of all those same members.


All british commonwealth members (excepting india) must recognise as their individual heads of state the british monarch and their same succession rules and laws as current in the other members of british commonwealth members (excepting india).


Reaffirmation that the succession of the monarch can be changed only simultaneously with and only with the consent of all the members of the british commonwealth (excepting india).


Recognition by all members that the rules and laws regarding succession of the head of the british commonwealth shall be that same as that of the british monarch.


With regards to india; India shall retain her membership of the commonwealth on the condition that a treaty or other binding law is passed in the british, Indian and other commonwealth legislatures describing mutual obligations that india and the other commonwealth nations have to each other regarding at least the areas of war and trade.


India may, even if mutual obligations cannot be agreed upon, remain in the british commonwealth if they accept the same regulations regarding the british monarchy as the other british commonwealth members. )

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Basically who stays, who goes and who joins? How unified are the remaining members and what effect does this have on the world outside the commonwealth?
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