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Originally Posted by jason taylor
One I remember is that until recently (comparatively) the British Government officially ceased to exist upon the death of the monarch and had to wait for the coronation to be resurrected.
If this still continued, that would be a interesting time for bureaucratic purges, eliminating old departments and siphoning their subsidies into new ones. And whatever.
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How recently was that? It'd be pretty strange any time more recent than the Glorious Revolution. On the other hand some pretty strange things happen in theory in the Westminster system every time Parliament is dissolved ahead of an election.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caretaker_government