Lady Dagon,

I do believe we met at Her Majesty's birthday celebration last year. It's a pleasure to hear from you again, though I do wish the circumstances were better. I have indeed reviewed the proposed legislation. Such rank idiocy, bordering on treason, even, makes me want to vomit. Needless to say, you have my full support in blocking it. If we had a time machine, I'd go back to 641 and strangle the idiot that gave the Commons control over finance. There's a reason that you don't give the common rabble power, and it's the exact same reason you don't hand a child a loaded weapon. They don't know how to use it properly or responsibly, and every possible outcome is a tragic one.

*sigh*

Still, the situation is not hopeless. The Crown Royalist Party still has a majority in the Commons, and enough of the more moderate Royalist MPs owed my father their political existence that I should be able to use the memory of his influence to keep them in line, at least on this issue. Of course, the idiots in the opposition will not rest until Bretonia is sold off to hostile foreign powers, but I think we'll be able to weather this crisis at the very least. Perhaps even long enough for a more permanent solution to present itself.