Category: Republic

Thousands of Spanish people joined a mass demonstration on 14 April calling for their country to become a republic again. Spain was last proclaimed a republic in 1931. But when dictator Franco gave up power as head of state in 1975 he transferred it to the current “king” of Spain. The so called “royal” family…

The Metropolitan Police has said that it will not allow free speech during the funeral procession for former Prime Minister and Conservative Party leader Margaret Thatcher. People wearing t-shirts with a message critical of Thatcher will be arrested, the London police force has announced. The Metropolitan Police used similarly partisan tactics in support of monarchy…

The daughter of the Spanish monarch has been named by a judge as a suspect in a fraud investigation. Christina de Borbon is to be questioned on 27 April as a part of an investigation into alleged embezzlement of public funds by her husband. This is the first time such a thing has happened to…

Crown Estate Grab Pays Off The Windsor clan is to get an extra £6m in spending money from the British people in 2013-14. This is the first payback from a long Windsor effort to win control of the Crown Estate, a vast public real estate holding. The Windsors claim that it belongs to them and…

Royal Interference in Irish Affair Donegal County Council in Ireland wants to build a sewage plant on the shore of Lough Foyle, which is located between the UK’s Northern Ireland to the east and south, and Ireland to the west and north. But it turns out that the foreshore of the Irish side of the…

Former banker Matt Ridley has become the newest member of Britain’s parliament in a bizarre and shameful process possible only in Britain’s feudal system. Mr Ridley was elected to fill a vacant seat by the Conservative caucus amongst the 92 hereditary legislators in the “upper” house of the country’s parliament. The people were shut out…

Beatrix Armgard has decided that the Netherlands should have a new head of state. It will be her son. The people of that country have no say in this. Armgard’s son will take her place after she has held the job for 33 years The people of the Netherlands pay £26m annually to support the…

A ten-year prison sentence imposed on a Thai journalist accused of insulting his country’s “royal” family is another demonstration of the viciousness of monarchy and a blow to the claim of monarchists that their feudal institution is compatible with democracy. Somyot Prucksakasemsuk’s “crime” is to have published magazine articles “defaming” Thailand’s “king”. The publication was…

Only one-third of New Zealanders want Charles Windsor to become their head of state on the death of his mother, according to an opinion poll in the Herald on Sunday. But under the feudal system New Zealand shares with Britain, they will be barred from all say in the matter. In the poll 43.3% of…

The number of Spaniards with good or very good opinion of their country’s “king”, Juan Carlos Bourbon, has fallen from 72% to 50% according to a poll by the El Mundo newspaper. The percentage wanting to abolish the feudal institution of monarchy was 41%, the highest ever. Pro-democracy sentiment was higher amongst younger Spanish people.…