Don't GET me wrong . Queen Elizabeth the Second was a remarkable woman , her reign in the U.K. of those 70 years is perhaps history making for Britain . I can only write things positive for her . (1)>>While the rest of the royals I not going say anything good about them , for decades they were and still are the fodder of English gossip & scandal . So we need to elaborate .... With the PASSING of Queen Elizabeth the Second . (2)>>Is there a storm coming to the UNITED KINGDOM? (2.1)>>Charles as KING , I honestly thought there was a chance he wouldn’t make it to king. He’s getting up there is age. He's close to being a equivalent to Joe Biden .Kinda surprised he's keeping the name. The UK doesn't have a good history with monarchs named Charles. Didn't both Charles I and Charles II dissolve parliament? Looks like monarchy is back on the menu boys. BBC royal correspondent Nicholas Witchell said Charles will be "the oldest person, at 73, to become King in British history." (3)>>NOW it begs the question how long will the Monarchy last ??? Brexit was probably a precursor to the dissolution of the United Kingdom , which detached it from the European Union . The 20 years from 2000 to 2020 might have been objectively awful for Britain, but the country has been through other grim periods in its recent past and not seen its coherence come quite as close to breakdown as it is today. At the heart of Britain’s crisis is a crisis of identity. Put simply, no other major power is quite as conflicted about whether it is even a nation to begin with, let alone what it takes to act like one. I know this might come as a shock, but the British empire pretty much ended 80 years ago. It was on the way out, then WW2 put the nail in the coffin. The Queen, or King now, is a relic of that era, as is the now multi cultural population that washed up on British shores as the tide of empire receded.Whether I believe the monarchy should be abolished is neither here nor there. If the BBC apply the same impartiality argument that they do to every other issue then they should have anti royals on TV over the next few days. Especially during the coronation.I don't think it's going to happen, polling shows support for the monarchy. But there is a reasonably large (and growing) minority that find it an archaic and objectionable thing from the past. But it would be nice to see it discussed.I do wonder how much the queen dying will swing that. I mean, it's not unfeasible that we could have had a King Andrew the Sex Offender on the throne had things happened a little differently (Charles abdicated to go marry Camilla).The deal that Charles II made with the government back in 1700 or whatever was that the crown retains ownership of their property, but the government gets all the revenue generated from that land, and in return the government pays the royals a stipend. (4)>>So if we abolish the monarchy that deal stops - and we lose all the money generated, which is far in excess of the amount paid to the royals. So unless you also advocate for the state annexing the private property of the royals, which some people probably do I guess. This was the perfect timing to end the monarchy in Great Britain, Queen Elizabeth ll was the perfect monarch, low key and dedicated to the job, but was surrounded by opportunists and Bon Vivan's. The British aristocracy has been a total disappointment.
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(1)>>While the rest of the royals I not going say anything good about them . Going back to when Prince Charles married Lady Diana it was a great media sensation , the wedding was broadcast around the world & indeed unforgettable . Honestly I liked Lady Diana she was the less dramatic part of the UK royalty , which years after her death the royal family seems was falling apart . However they need a shit ton more oversight. They cannot be allowed to abuse their power as they have historically done (even up till recently). The whole Prince Andrew shenanigans, the Queen lobbying ministers, all their hidden wealth. There should be strict rules for being in the royal family, which you can of course opt out of. In so far as the British royal family has a set of assumptions about superiority, they are largely about class. Racism, where it exists, is a subset of that. If there is an original sin in British ruling circles, it is snobbery; the valuation of a person according to family and birth.Also, yes, in theory, the Royals perpetuate the class system but in practice I’m not sure they have that much impact. Personally I’d like to see a slimmed down Monarchy a bit like NL or in Scandinavia which was a bit less costly. Imagine believing any monarch and their bourgeois fuck lords in power could be held accountable for inflicting poverty on us. Poverty kills. It has killed thousands in the UK already and there’s more to come.No greater evil than letting an issue persist for so long when there are things that could be done within our current framework to alleviate this stress and prevent further tragedies.Instead, 30 million quid to a bunch of do nothing all day greedy monarchs that live in the lap of luxury. Billions of pounds in tax breaks for the “owners” of our country. Rapid and unabashed exploitation of people and our workers.30 million quod could in theory go towards rehousing the homeless. Billions lost in corruption could easily be directed to the NHS to set up new clinics. Tax could do more.(2)>>Is there a storm coming to the UNITED KINGDOM? The British Empire is long past it’s heyday. That’s just a fact. They’ve gone from being the biggest empire in history to a commonwealth held together by little more than inertia. In terms of actual power they have little. But lose of their empire does not mean the country itself is falling apart. No, Brexit means the country is falling apart.First of all, Brexit was a dumb move economically. In the immediate aftermath of Brexit the UK lost a lot of money, and it lost a good chunk of its economy. UK banks serving as a door to Europe. Gone. International trade. Slowed. Cheap foreign labor. Elsewhere. The purely economic effects of Brexit are going to slowly creep up in the coming decades, because there’s no economic model in which a small nation leaving its trade bloc doesn’t lose money.. But the problems with Brexit run much deeper. The country was split almost perfectly down the middle. Half the country opposed a major decision that will have permanent ramifications. That’s not good for national unity. And only a few years before Brexit half of Scotland voted to leave the UK entirely. The global pandemic has put further referendums on the back burner, but there are still growing nationalist movements in Scotland and Ireland, and any future problems in the UK are only going to give them more fuel. The UK will cease to exist within 4 years when Scotland leaves. Possibly even before that, NI could join the republic. (2)>>Charles as KING . Prince - now King - Charles has waited his entire adult life, well into what should be his retirement, to take his seat on the throne. As Charles III , it must be noted that one of his sons could be the next PRINCE of WALES . But Charles has bit of a long dark side to his character . Besides "cheating" on Lady Diana , hes Did you know future King of England, Prince Charles, is a key player in Britain's military industrial complex? He was sent to help sell arms to the Saudis and help with their murderous military campaigns.Nice to see the future head of state has such international interests, amirite?I hope you enjoyed that fact. To summon me again, or find out more about me, just say: "Reggie-Bot" and I'll be there! .If Charles is ever crowned, he must feel he won't have long to serve.Then expressing opinions is not the royal thing to do, and hasn't Charles had to learn that lesson of late? In June, he was criticized for having reportedly described government plans to send migrants to Rwanda as "Appalling."Charles may yet hand the reins to his eldest son William.Just days before her death, William and Kate said they would move their family home closer to the Queen's own. (3)>>NOW it begs the question how long will the Monarchy last ??? The antiquated monarchy should also be done with the passing of the Queen along with the dissolution of the Commonwealth. British colonization and decolonization after WW2 have been genocidal like brutal, for example partition of India, quelling counter-insurgency in Malaysia, etc etc. All of which was done in the name of the ruling monarch. The institution is bathed in blood and any attempt to keep it going in the 21st century is foolish. The Brits are welcome to keep their foolish monarchy rituals with their tax money, the former colonies that are still part of the commonwealth should just quit the group! (4)>>So if we abolish the monarchy that deal stops . There has long been talk among republicans that the monarchy should end with the death of Queen Elizabeth II - and the portion of people in the UK who believe the monarchy should be done away with is growing. On the most basic level, the British people would need to vote on a referendum, not unlike the 2016 Brexit referendum where 51.9% of participants voted for the U.K. to leave the European Union. Advocates for a British Republic say they'd want a sizable majority to be in favor of abolishing the monarchy before pushing for such a referendum. And this feels like a long way off. In a poll taken the week before Harry and Meghan's interview, just 17% of Britons said it would be better for the future of the country if the monarchy were abolished. The most-cited reason for supporting the monarchy is that they sum up who the British people are. They’re Britishness itself. This is an argument that was often deployed by the Daily Telegraph’s Peter Oborne during last year’s royal wedding “celebrations”. In the UK there is actually no executive ability to be able to replace it. This is one of the biggest issues with Brexit, as so many laws and regulations need to be written and enacted. It’s a reason why it has taken four years - simply put the government in the UK is so useless and couldn’t do it. To abolish the Monarchy it is really difficult, it will decades, of work. Then you have the whole divorce arrangement.The entire peerage system needs to be unravelled first as the Monarch/Dukes are actually not people but entities.The UK will need a written constitution.The Monarch is actually head of three entities - The Church of England, The Commonwealth and the UK.
