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Gleneagles G8 could have been so different!

Imagine - Condoleezza Rice versus Queen Elizabeth

Alternative Gleneagles G8 group photograph. Imagine presiding as elected head of the Commonwealth of English-speaking countries, maybe Condoleezza Rice. I've air-brushed out Elizabeth Windsor and also her husband Philip. I've pasted in Colin Fox MSP arbitrarily as I've no idea who would've represented the Gleneagles G8 protestors and lobbyists.

Here's another fantasy politics scenario to consider.

Imagine if the welcome dinner at Gleneagles had been hosted by Condoleezza Rice instead of by that menace Queen Elizabeth! Then we'd be fully on course in the war on terrorism, making poverty history, tackling disease pandemics and so on. Condi is way too diplomatic to suggest that the Queen be sent packing to make way for someone like herself who is really up to the job of world leadership.

The Queen was hosting the Gleneagles dinner as the (royalist fascist) head of state of the UK. President of Britain is too small a job for Condi to do and inappropriate anyway as she is an American rather than a Briton. However, the Queen is the (royalist fascist) head of the Commonwealth too and I can imagine a circumstance where Condi could have presided at Gleneagles as the elected head of a properly democratised Commonwealth. How?

For example, if there were to be instituted regular elections to the position of head of the Commonwealth instead of us just being stuck with the Queen, only then would it make some sense for countries like the U.S.A. and the Republic of Ireland to join the Commonwealth and we could then foresee a meaningful organisational unity of the entire English-speaking world! Anyway, the Americans have got first call on Condi and they might be wanting her for their next President but anyway the Commonwealth should oust the Queen, as a matter of democratic principle.

Condoleezza Rice, left, India's Minister of Foreign Affairs K. Natwar Singh, center, and White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card, share a light moment as they wait for President Bush and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to hold a joint press conference, Monday, July 18, 2005, in the East Room at the White House.

We should introduce regular elections for head of the Commonwealth. Then we'd have a procedure in place to nominate someone like Condi for election to that post soonest.

The Americans should not rush to join the Commonwealth

Only if the Commonwealth is properly democratised, should the Americans bother joining it. We do need a country like the USA to keep flying the flag for uncompromising republicanism in the English-speaking world. I don't like to see for one minute an American President having to accept second place to a monarch, as apparently was the case at the reception dinner at Gleneagles.

Heralding Condi's arrival to Bishkek airport, the Kyrgyzstan leaders bring a Golden Eagle (female) to the welcome ceremony. October 11, 2005. Thanks to Kyrgyz falconry for this memorable picture.

• Golden Eagle photographed with Condi Rice - Up Where We Belong

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