Category: Republic

Charles Windsor, hereditary heir to Britain’s chief public office, increased his direct take from the taxpayers by £575,000 last year, a 23.5% increase in a time of financial crisis. Most of the increase was accounted for by an extra £550,000 spent on travel, including two overseas tours. In all the feudal ruler took £3m from…

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…

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…

British legislators are demonstrating that Britain may be the only developed nation in which it is believed that feudalism is worth defending. MP Gordon Prentice has told the head of the civil service that the “honours system”, under which the state awards feudal titles, will fall into disrepute if Fred Goodwin, former chief executive of…

Defenders of the House of Lords have suffered a further setback as a result of revelations that some legislators-for-life have been keen to accept payments in return for influencing legislation. This has undermined the apologists’ claim that the undemocratic chamber is justified by the high-minded independence of the unelected legislators. The scandal caused the Financial…

Charles Windsor has told his biographer, Jonathan Dimbleby, that he intends to act like a king when he takes over from his mother as Britain’s hereditary head of state. Mr. Dimbleby says that Windsor plans to be a “political” head of state. He describes what is planned as “a seismic shift” in the role of…

According to figures published by the Financial Times a 2head of a clan” in the Italian Mafia can expect to make as much as £408,000 a year. Charles Windsor, second in command of Britain’s Windsor clan, took in excess of £16m from the British people last year. No other country is known to provide the…

The BBC has canceled its champagne order, on which it spent £40,000 of the people’s money last year, amidst fears that the recession will drive more to refuse the £139.50 annual levy that it imposes for permission to watch TV. The feared loss of income is despite the state broadcaster’s recent “Evaders will pay” billboard…

Church of England leaders have been accused of hypocrisy for attacks on city traders. According to the Financial Times the state church commissioners “lend foreign stock from their £5.5bn of investments – an essential support for short-selling”. The newspaper also reported that the church had invested £13m in Man Group, the biggest hedge fund manager.…

The weakness of Britain’s democratic culture has been demonstrated by an extraordinary attack on republicans by former cabinet minister Norman Tebbit. The prominent conservative has alleged that MPs who have signed a House of Commons motion to end the requirement that legislators swear allegiance to the Windsor clan, are attacking the state or wish to…