Category: Republic
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Windsor Son Attacks Anti-Corruption Efforts
Andrew Windsor, son of Britain’s hereditary head of state, has said that police are idiots for investigating corruption in trade deals. He also criticised British newspapers for investigating corruption. Mr. Windsor, know to feudalists as “the Duke of York”, is Britain’s “special trade representative”, a job he is unlikely to have been given if he…
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Prime Minister Appoints More Legislators for Life
David Cameron has appointed 54 new legislators to the “House of Lords”. Forty two are supporters of the government. This bring the number of unelected legislators to 744. There are 650 legislators in the House of Commons. The feudal legislators can each claim up the £43,500 a year for attending Parliament.
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State Church On A Mission
The Church of England has justified its criticism of News Corporation’s attempt to take full control of British Sky Broadcasting (BSkyB) with the claim that “we have a mission to the nation”. The statement was made to the Financial Times newspaper. The Church said that it was defending “a wide plurality of media, as being…
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Feudal Rulers Get Deferential Bow From Victor
It seems that when you beat a “prince” fair and square you still have to say “sorry”. After winning a court case in which the behaviour of a British “prince” and a Qatari “emir” featured prominently in his evidence, property developer Christian Candy has apologised to both. In the course of negotiating a financial settlement…
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British Queen Imposes Title on Reluctant New Zealanders
The queen of England has decided that the prime minister of New Zealand is the “right honourable” John Kay. He has no wish to be “right honourable” but the British queen says he is, and so he is. Until 2000 the “right honourable” prefix was used in New Zealand for members of the Privy Council…
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When Subjects Became Citizens
An early draft of the Declaration of Independence referred to the people of Britain’s 13 North American colonies as “subjects”, the US Library of Congress has revealed. But, in the words of the Washington Post, in 1776 Thomas Jefferson “sought quite methodically to expunge the word, to wipe it out of existence and write over…
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A Queen in New York
The Washington Post has described the visit to New York by Elizabeth Windsor, Britain’s feudal head of state, as “subdued”. It recalled that when Ms. Windsor first visited in 1957 there was “a ticker tape parade befitting war heroes”. But when the hereditary ruler addressed the United Nations General Assembly this July “there was hardly…
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Bad Week for Windsors
The Windsor clan suffered two blows last week, suggesting that its hold on Britain may be weakening. On Friday a High Court judged said that the actions of Charles Windsor in blocking modern architecture for an upscale property development in London had been “unexpected and unwelcome”. The judge ruled in favour of a claim by…
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Canadians Have Had Enough of Monarchy
Recent news from Canada has also been bad for the family. Sixty-two per cent of Canadians want a democratic head of state in place of Britain’s feudal queen according to an opinion poll by IPSOS. Fifty-eight per cent believe their country should break all links with the British monarchy when Elizabeth Windsor leaves office. The…
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Prince Pissed in Emir’s Ear
The pomposity of the feudal British monarchy was hilariously pierced in a recent ourt hearing in London when evidence was presented that Charles Windsor, meeting with fellow feudal ruler the Emir of Qatar, “pissed in his ear about how awful” he thought plans for a major property development not far from the Windsor clan’s London…