With the death of Elizabeth the second the longest serving Monarch in British history who is to be replaced by her erstwhile son Charles, perhaps now is a good time to reflect on the suitability of the continuation of the role of an unelected King in a modern pseudo democratic nation.
I could begin by listing the sins of British foreign policy under the watch of Elizabeth the Second to include a coup in Iran in 1953 when Britain with the help of America’s CIA instigated a coup thereby removing the democratically elected leader of Iran Mohammad Mosaddegh and replacing him with the unelected Shah. This eventually led to the cultural revolution in Iran in 1979 when the Shah was deposed by a peoples led revolt and Iran was once again governed by the people and not a Monarchical dictatorship.
I could mention the Suez campaign when Britain and others tried to occupy and control the Suez canal in Egypt only to fail ingloriously and suffer a humiliating defeat.
Or Kenya where the Mau Mau fighting against the British military occupation of their country were brutalised, beaten, castrated, tortured and murdered, leading to accusations of war crimes and possible criminal proceedings.
All of the above mentioned crimes were carried out by the British government , the British establishment and the British army.
They were carried out in the name of Queen and Country.
Yet I would prefer to look at the royal family itself and critique their suitability to govern.
Let’s start with Elizabeth Windsor.
Well that’s actually a pseudonym of sorts.
he family name is actually Saxe- Coburg -Gotha, she is of German descent.
The family changed their name in 1917 during the first World War in order to appease anti German sentiment .
Other families with German names living in Britain were Interned during those very same war years.
Elizabeth married her cousin Phillip of Greece and they had several children.
She ascended to the throne in 1952 taking the oath to Protect the Protestant Faith.
In that simple act alone she has disenfranchised and fails to represent the millions of Roman Catholics in the United Kingdom
An act of division and separatism , yet she claims to want to unite the country.
The British government, the establishment , the popular press and main stream media portrayed Elizabeth as a benign figure, as a mother , as a granny to the nation. While prime ministers came and went, she was a constant steadying influence for good for over 70 years, as the Royals set the example of what it was to be British.
The British Monarchy is far from being benign.
The modern history of the royals plainly paints a picture of how deeply embedded they are in the imperialist war machinations of their governments, in foreign misadventures in other people’s land.
The royals are not a paragon of virtue .
They are parasites of privilege.
They are the very epitome of white supremacy. Bringing civilization and Christianity to the colonies, the fuzzy wuzzys, to people of brown or black skin, and the bog Irish.
The British Monarch is head of the British armed forces
These are not ceremonial positions as we shall see .
The royals are deeply imbedded in the British military industrial complex.
Firstly we have the former Prince Charles as the commandeer in chief of the British Parachute regiment.
The Parachute regiment were renowned in the North of Ireland for their brutality towards the indigenous Irish Catholic population..
So much so that they murdered 11 unarmed civilians in what became known as the Ballymurphy Massacre in Belfast between the
9 th and 11 th of August 1971 with Britains enforcement of mass arrests as it Implemented Internment without trial upon the nationalist Irish population.
This was followed by another Massacre in Derry on January 30 1972 when the very same regiment murdered 13 unarmed civil rights protesters , injuring many more in what the world now knows as ‘Bloody Sunday’.
The soldier in charge that day Col. Mike Jackson claimed his victims were gun men and bombers and that lie continued to be repeated until June 15, 2010 when David Cameron the then British Prime Minister gave a public retraction and a public apology to the families of the dead and Injured and exonerated those that were murdered that day as being totally innocent
The inquest into the BallyMurphy Massacre of 1971 is still ongoing 52 years later.
Col Mike Jackson was given a medal and later appointed General Officer Commanding all British land forces.
Prince Andrew fought against the Argentine conscripts during Margaret Thatcher’s War on the Malvinas in 1982
Prince Harry fought against the Taliban in the war on Afghanistan
The Royal family is deeply embedded in and indeed plays a significant role in persuading the British public of the British government’s right to use war and violence to gain political influence and political dominance over other nations and peoples
Prince Andrew was once described as the unofficial Ambassador for the British Arms industry as he toured the world in his official capacity as a royal , paid for by the British Pubic, while presumably earning commission selling arms, missiles and aircraft to despots, dictators and rogue Monarchs all around the globe
Now let’s look at their suitability to govern as role models and leaders.
While Elizabeth married her cousin
Charles married Diana Spence .
Shortly after the marriage he became an adulterer, having a life long affair with Camilla Parker Bowles.
He later married her after the death of Diana.
Diana herself was at that time in a relationship with Dodi Fayed . It is rumoured she may have been pregnant with his child, and accusations persist that they were murdered in that car accident in the tunnel in Paris to prevent a coloured baby from embarrassing the royal family.
As Charles becomes ‘King’ there is a picture circulating on social media that shows the former Prince Charles in the company of James (jimmy) Saville and Thomas Hamilton on a day out shooting grouse.
Jimmy Saville was a well known children’s entertainer with the British Broadcasting Corporation.
There were persistent accusation and rumours of paedophilia cited against him
Investigations proved inconclusive yet it was widely accepted after his death that he was indeed a prolific sexual predator and paedophile.
The second man pictured in the photograph is Thomas Hamilton infamously known as the ‘Dunblane Shooter’
The disgraced former Scout Master with an unhealthy interest In young boys according to many newspaper reports at the time, entered a school in Dunblane with four hand guns and 700 bullets . Within 4 minutes he had murdered 16 children and their teacher injuring 32 more before committing suicide. He fired a total of 106 bullets. I wonder what he didn’t want those children saying?
This is the company kept by the man, who would be King?
Prince Andrew who might simply now be referred to as Andrew, was stripped of his military and ceremonial duties after his mother had to pay 12 million pounds to prevent Andrew facing possible prosecution in America accused of having had inappropriate sexual relations with a young underage girl.
Lord Mountbatten, Charles’s uncle, was another royal accused of paedophilia and his name was linked to a paedophile ring that frequented the ‘Kincora Boys Home’ in Belfast.
Andrew was a close friend and confidant of both Gislean Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein, both of whom were regular visitors at the Royal residences.
So we have ‘King Charles’ the alleged adulterer.
Andrew the disgraced and accused sexual predator.
They associate with paedophilles and murderers and bleed the public purse dry.
They endorse British governmental imperialist wars, and actually play an active role in the subjugation and oppression of other people in other sovereign nations.
These unelected, unmandated, unscrupulous unspeakable relics of feudal medieval times, have no part to play in a modern vibrant thriving democracy.
But then Britain is none of those.
Modern Britain is a pseudo-democracy because it is in fact a duopoly led by a monarchy.
The two main parties alternate in power, meaning the people have no real choice when it comes to electing their government.
The role of the Monarchy is to pacify the population . To distract them with pomp and ceremony and patriotic nationalism.
To maintain the established order and to continue the traditional feudal system disguised as a modern democracy.
The Monarchy is not fit for purpose.
The Royals are not fit to lead it.
We the people should not have to fund it.
End British Imperialism
End the British Monarchy
End the duopoly of power.
Onwards to the Republic.
Quite right. But you will quicker by many decades, if not centuries, by voting to join the Irish Republic, rather than waiting to vote for a British Republic.