Month: May 2009
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No Celebrations For Queen’s Birthday
“Not one of New Zealand’s local authorities will hold celebrations for the Queen this Queen’s Birthday weekend” according to Lewis Holden, who chairs the New Zealand Republican Movement. The Republican Movement wrote to all of New Zealand’s district and city Mayors in May. Not one indicated any celebration of the Queen’s Birthday for the upcoming…
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How Others See Us
“We respect the democracy and procedures in the UK”. Ghanim binn Saad al-Saad, head of Qatari Diar, explaining why he may be making concessions to the demands of a feudal institution in the person of Charles Windsor on the design of the company’s development on the Chelsea Barracks site.
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Quote of the Week
“With luck the present crisis of public trust (in MPs) may rekindle the embers of constitutional reform. But why stop at parliament? For all its self-regard, British democracy sovereignty not in the people but in the “monarch in parliament”. How long before someone asks to see the Queen’s expense chits?” Philip Stephens, The Financial Times
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BBC Defends Feudal Privileges
Michael Lyons, who chairs the BBC Trust, has declared in an interview with The Financial Times that the state broadcaster should not be subject to democratic controls. According to the newspaper he reminded “the government and opposition parties . . . that he and the other trustees were appointed by the Queen, through the Privy…
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Expenses Fury Masks Feudal Privileges
Head of state Elizabeth Windsor is reported to be “concerned” about the constitutional implications of the MPs’ expenses scandal. However, the constitution will allow voters to remove the MPs who have been shamed at the general election in 2010. There is no such easy way of punishing the Windsor family who make the legislators look…
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Architects Fight Back Against Windsor
A group of British architects has called for a boycott of a lecture by Charles Windsor who is due to become Britain’s head of state when his mother dies. Mr. Windsor will give the lecture at the Royal Institute of Architects on Tuesday. The nine architects called for a boycott in a letter to the…
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Australia: Senate Considers Republic Vote
In Australia the Senate has held a public hearing on a bill providing for a plebiscite on whether Australia should cut its ties with Britain’s feudal institution. The committee, which is due to report in June, has considered 246 written submissions and has heard nine witnesses. A bill requiring a plebiscite was referred to the…
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New Zealand: Not Yet Ready For Republic?
An New Zealand republican movement opinion poll shows that a majority 45% of citizens are willing for Charles Windsor to become their head of state when his mother dies. Another 43% want their country to become a republic. Support for the feudal system of appointing the head of state is down from 48% in December…