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June 4th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Chris Bambery, from the revolutionary Scottish International Socialist Group, told Press TV that the Queen rarely uses her “immense power” over “the armed forces, the judiciary, the police, the secret services [and] all instruments of government.”
However, he said those powers are “there in case of emergency” as precedence shows including her veto of the Australian Labour Prime Minister in 1975 through her Governor-General Sir John Kerr.
“Well, I’ll give you an example, not from Britain, but the Queen has directly dismissed an elected prime minister in Australia in 197[5] a Labor prime minister was dismissed by the Queen’s agent the Governor General,” Bambery said in his interview with Press TV.
“She does play an active role in politics … This power is very rarely used, but it’s there in case of emergency. And it’s not difficult to see that in a crisis situation and we are entering an economic crisis, that those powers could come in useful,” he added.
The intervention of Queen’s agent Sir John Kerr in Australia in 1975 is known as the greatest political and constitutional crisis in the Australian history.
On November 11, 1975, Australian Labour PM Gough Whitlam called on the Governor General to approve his proposed half-Senate election to end a political stand-off with the opposition Liberal party.
However, Kerr used the “rarely used” power he wielded on the part of the Queen, dismissed the democratically-elected Prime Minister and installed the opposition leader as caretaker PM.
According to Bambery, the incident underlined the fact that the Queen’s massive powers do not remain symbolic when she is not satisfied with the situation.
“And I think you have to say that she has those powers and in extreme situation like if a radical government was elected in this country, committed to taking over the wealth of the country I think you would see her employing those powers. And the military and secret service and so on would say they were acting because they are not responsible to parliament they are responsible to the queen,” Bambery said.
“These are powers, which should be under the democratic control of the people; they should not be in the hands of one woman,” he added.
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