The Centre for Citizenship

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  • 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…

  • Republicanism Is Attack On State Says Tebbit

    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…

  • Windsor Finds Cause of Everything That’s Wrong

    Charles Windsor, who is due to become Britain’s next hereditary head of state, has told the Daily Telegraph that experiments with genetically modified food are the reason that the world is “facing all these challenges, climate change and everything”. This is believed to be the first time that this explanation for global warming has been…

  • BBC Trustees Claim £1,000 A Month

    The BBC Trust’s twelve members claimed an average of £1,000 in expenses last year at the expense of TV viewers who are forced to buy a licence to watch TV. Scotland’s representative on the Board was the most expensive. Jeremy Peat claimed a total of £30,976, a monthly average of £2,581. This included £9,800 for…

  • Democracy Delayed (Again)

    The end of feudalism in the British legislature may be delayed again. Justice minister Jack Straw has published the third discussion paper on House of Lords reform in seven years. But if he has his way there will be no more reform until after the general election, which may not be until 2010. The Conservative,…

  • What Makes Our Country Special

    “Along with the BBC and the monarchy, the (national health) service has become part of the way in which we define what makes our country special”. So wrote Nicholas Timmins in the Financial Times on 30 June 2008. Mr. Timmins went on to write that the five-year cancer survival rate in Britain is “well down…

  • Feudal Sark Case to Go to Rights Court

    The Barclay brothers have said they will appeal to the European Court of Human Rights after the High Court rejected their claim that state recognition of feudal positions in Sark breaches human rights. New legislation will give Sark, a “crown dependency”, an elected legislature for the first time. However, the unelected feudal positions of Seigneur…

  • Scouts Insist Cubs Are Windsor’s “Subjects”

    The Scout Association has threatened to deny full membership of its Cubs to eight-year-old Matthew McVeigh because he refuses to promise allegiance to Britain’s feudal head of state, Elizabeth Windsor. Matthew’s family is Catholic and Britain’s constitution bars Catholics from the nation’s chief public office. His mother Tracy McVeigh told the Daily Record newspaper “The…

  • Bermuda To Drop Windsor Birthday

    The Caribbean island Bermuda, Britain’s oldest colony, is to celebrate the birthday of hereditary head of state Elizabeth Windsor for the last time this year. The colony’s government, which favours independence from Britain, is to replace the public holiday that marks the birthday with National Hero’s Day. The government hopes this will encourage national identity.

  • New Zealand Majority Supports Republic

    A Roy Morgan Research opinion poll suggests that 46 per cent of New Zealanders are in favour of their country becoming a republic. Only 41 per cent favoured the current status of monarchy. This percentage fell to 32 when those polled were asked what they would want if Charles Windsor became Britain’s head of state.