Category: Republic

Fifty-five per cent of Canadians want their country to break its link with Britain’s feudal head of state according to a new opinion poll. Another four per cent agree that Canada should become a republic if Charles Windsor becomes head of state. Support for freeing Canada from the feudal institution was strongest amongst males and…

Britain’s state broadcaster is looking at a new logo and name for its enforcement branch, TV Licensing, according to the Sunday Telegraph. Mediawatch-UK told the newspaper that the revamp was a waste of money. Broadcaster Esther Rantzen agreed. She suggested that the media giant might “do a variation of ‘It Could Be You’ (a national…

Britain is resisting a European Commission plan that would reduce the £500,000 paid in farm subsidies to hereditary head of state Elizabeth Windsor. The Commission wants to slash subsidies from taxpayers to the owners of big farms in order to rebut claims that the Common Agriculture Policy favours the rich. But a spokesperson for the…

Two Spanish cartoonists have been fined £2000 each on a charge of insulting Felipe Bourbon, who is heir to the office of head of state. The charge arose from a law intended to boost the birth rate by paying cash to families for adopting or giving birth to a child. Guillermo Torres and Manel Fontevilla…

Charles Windsor, the son of Britain’s hereditary head of state, has been reported by the Sunday Telegraph newspaper to be “very excited” about the conversion of his family’s 9-carriage railway train to run on bio-diesel made from vegetable oil. Mr. Windsor was said in the same article to be concerned about climate change. The heir…

According to The Sun newspaper Andrew Windsor has spent £6,000 of taxpayers money flying from London to Edinburgh to watch golf. Mr Windsor is the son of Britain’s hereditary head of state. Under Britain’s feudal constitution he will become head of state if four members of his family who are in line before him die.…

After a long police investigation the Crown Prosecution Services has decided there is not enough evidence to prosecute anyone for selling seats in the British legislature, which is against the law. The police investigation followed the appointment as legislators-for-life of four business people soon after they had made secret loans to the Labour Party. It…

The millions of Britons who have paid the BBC for a licence to watch television will now pay for 16,500 of the corporation’s staff to attend ethics seminars. This follows the revelation that supposed winners of TV competitions were in fact employees of the media giant. The state broadcaster takes £3bn annually from television viewers…

When it published its annual accounts the Windsor family again claimed that it costs the taxpayers only £37m a year. Republic, the group that campaigns for the abolition of the feudal institution, put the true figure at closer to £152m. This includes police protection and tax breaks for family members. It does not include their…

The millions of Britons who have paid the BBC for a licence to watch television will now pay for 16,500 of the corporation’s staff to attend ethics seminars. This follows the revelation that supposed winners of TV competitions were in fact employees of the media giant. The state broadcaster takes £3bn annually from television viewers…