Category: Republic

The Financial Times has revealed that the state-sponsored British Broadcasting Corporation uses covert surveillance to collect the fee it charges citizens who want to watch television. The BBC’s enforcement agency told the newspaper that “It is only used as a last resort once other enforcement methods have been exhausted”. The revelation was in a report…

Monarchy Divides Britain The claim of monarchists that monarchy unites Britain has yet again been shown as false, this time by the refusal of sports people to join in singing the British royal anthem, known as “God Save the Queen”. Welsh footballers Ryan Giggs and Craig Bellamy and Scottish football players Kim Little and Ifeoma…

But It’s Not Windsor The “king” of Spain has taken a pay cut of £16,000, in response to the anger among Spanish people about their government’s tax increases and austerity budgeting. His son is to be paid £8,000 less than last year and other family members will also take cuts in their pay. In all…

£31m From “Crown Estate” The Windsor family are to take £31m of the people’s money from the “Crown Estate” in 2012-13, the first year in which they will be allowed to take income from this vast public propert holding. However, spending on their their  “jubilee” celebrations to mark another 60 years of feudal privilege mean…

The Girl Guides of Australia no longer require members to pledge allegiance to Elizabeth Windsor, Britain’s feudal head of state. The 29,000-member organisation consulted widely before ending the pledge. The Australian Republican Movement said that the change was a step towards that country becoming a republic. In Britain republicans are barred from Parliament, the judiciary…

Ampon Tangnoppakul has died while serving a twenty-year sentence for insulting the Thai “royal” family. Mr. Ampon was sentenced for sending SMS messages that were alleged to have violated the law that forbids free speech deemed insulting to the feudal rulers of Thailand. Hundreds of Thai citizens protested following the death, demanding an end to…

Leanne Wood, the new leader of Plaid Cymru (Party of Wales), is boycotting a service at Llandaff Cathedral in Cardiff that is part of a tour of Wales by Britain’s hereditary head of state to celebrate her sixty years of extraordinary and unwarranted privilege. Ms. Wood, a member of the Welsh legislature, said that: “As a…

The organiser of an event to celebrate Liz Windsor’s sixtieth year of egregious privilege has complained about lack of financial support from business. Robert Gascoyne-Cecil said he was having an “uphill struggle” to raise £10.5m for a show on the River Thames. The legislator threatened to “name and shame” businesses that were not showing support…

The town of Berga in Spain has set an example of self-respecting citizenship by declaring the “King of Spain” persona non grata. The town’s council passed the motion following unusually severe criticism of the feudal relic for going on an expensive holiday paid for by a Syrian business person with ties to the Saudi Arabia…

Juan Carlos Borbón, head of the Spanish Borbón clan and known as the king of that country, has apologised to the people of Spain for his elephant-hunting trip to Africa. Mr. Borbón had been widely criticised for the visit after he had claimed that the hard times faced by the Spanish people were keeping him…