Category: Republic

Spanish Family Paid Less Than Bankers The extraordinary financial support given to Britain’s Windsor family has been given new emphasis by the publication of figures for the income of the Spanish Bourbons. The Spanish family has felt obliged to be more open in order to counter falling support for its privileges Carlos Bourbon takes a…

Change in Monarch May Change Views Australian republicans are reported to be unsurprised by a recent poll that shows support for Britain’s feudal family at just over two percentage points above support for an Australian republic. Former deputy PM Wayne Swan said that that poll should inspire republicans to “redouble efforts”. Geoff Gallop, who chairs…

Criticises Windsors But Fails the People The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has gently criticised queen Windsor for spending above her income from the “sovereign grant” and for neglect of the public properties in which she lives. But it has failed the people of Britain by ignoring the burden her family places on both the rights…

Three Court of Appeal judges who use the feudal title of “Lord” have ruled that London’s Metropolitan Police were entitled to make pre-emptive arrests of republicans who had committed no crime in order to stop them expressing republican views on the day of the marriage of William Windsor and Kate Middleton in 2011. This ruling…

Family Prepares for Charles to Take Over The Windsor clan are consolidating their public relations operations to prepare for when Charles Windsor replaces his better liked mother as Britain’s feudal head of state according to news media reports. It is widely expected that the eccentricities and more open use of privilege by the younger Windsor…

Julian Welby, who heads Britain’s state church, has accused some bankers of being “absolutely still in denial” about the need for banking reform, according to a report in the Financial Times. Welby is well placed to comment about the state of being in in denial as it is a requirement of his job. When his…

An Australian Republican Movement (ARM) poll indicates that 48% of Australians agree with their governor-general that their country should become a republic. Perhaps surprisingly support for the democratic option is strongest, at 59%, in those aged 60-69. And more than 50% of Australians aged 18-39 wanted to free their country from monarchy. Governor-General Quentin Bryce…

Thai Monarchists Support “People’s Council” The lie that monarchy is a stabilising institution that unites a nation is taking a battering in Thailand. Violent disorder in the streets is continuing as the opposition tries to overthrow the democratically elected government. The opposition includes what the Financial Times terms “the old royalist establishment”. Opposition protesters have…

Windsor Ploy Backfires Another Windsor attempt to create justification for their egregiously unwarranted privileges has brought more criticism than praise. The criticism followed a dinner for clients and associates of JP Morgan in the Windsors’ main London palace. This was soon after Jamie Dimon, who attended the dinner and heads the bank, had agreed to…

Fight for Democratic Rights Boosted Quentin Bryce the Governor-General of Australia has spoken in favour of that country becoming a republic. While giving a lecture in Sydney Ms. Bryce said she hoped that “one day one young girl or boy may even grow up to be our nation’s first head of state.” A Commonwealth governor-general…