God Save Us!

The Royal Family which has ruled us for so many centuries under the eyes of God, and other such pomposities are becoming so clichéd that to me it is a wonder they are still uttered, along with “for Queen and country” and other such drivel. How can we still live in this appalling state of inequality and still describe ourselves as a democracy? Admittedly we have a better record on human rights than many countries, but we are still far from a true democracy.
The concept of a Monarch is now such an out dated idea, which oppresses the masses and shatters aspirations. It is, after all the highest office in the land and where the highest office in the land is hereditary and bound up in instructions such as not being allowed to marry someone of a certain religious group how can we call ourselves equal?
The hereditary nature also becomes racist if examined from another angle. Unlike that “shining beacon of democracy” America, we cannot expect a black figure-head, or indeed a figurehead from any other ethnic minority. It is a sorry state of affairs indeed, when the evil empire is able to call themselves more egalitarian than ourselves.
The final blanket of wool that must be ripped from our eyes is the claim that the Royal Family largely supports itself, it does not. The group Republic (dedicated to inspiring national debate on the future of the monarchy) estimates an astronomical figure that the royals cost us in reality. Many royalists like to claim that the Queen supports herself and makes charitable donations through funding from her estates, but as the comedian Robert Newman says “Who’s land? Our land taken from us by theft deceit and by clever use of hedges”.
Maybe the time is soon approaching when the people can recognise and cast out this antiquated regime for the oppressive parasites that they are.