Category: Republic

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…

A second attempt by a Windsor family member to take a top Australian public position has failed. Prime Minister John Howard has declared that 25 year old William Windsor is an unacceptable candidate for governor-general of his country. Mr. Windsor’s father, Charles Windsor, was rejected for the same position in the 1980s. He was reported…

Australian taxpayers may be paying as much as £146,000 towards the cost of a yet to be completed “jewel-encrusted carriage” for Elizabeth Windsor. It is to be an 80th birthday present for the country’s absentee head of state, although Ms. Windsor reached her 80th year in 2006. The West Australian newspaper reported that the gift…

The Conservative Party is being blamed by the Labour and Liberal Democrat parties for one of it’s legislators-for-life who chooses not live in this country. Although Irvine Laidlaw makes laws for Britons to obey, he has chosen to live in Monaco and not pay British taxes. Mr. Laidlaw is reputed to be the second richest…

Although the government is to increase the TV licence fee from £131.50 to £151.50 by 2012 the British Broadcasting Corp. is complaining that it will be £2bn short of the money it needs. Director-General Mark Thompson has claimed that it will be unable to improve the poor quality of its programmes without this money. The…

Australia may have won the Ashes but Australian republicans are smarting. When England won in 2005 Liz Windsor thanked each player. But there have been no congratulations for the Australian victors from their head of state. The problem is that Australians do not have their own head of state. They share the English Windsor with…