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Thread #171879   Message #4171131
Posted By: Steve Shaw
29-Apr-23 - 06:12 PM
Thread Name: BS: Brexit & other UK political topics - 2
Subject: RE: BS: Brexit & other UK political topics - 2
Now get this. From the Guardian:

Members of the public watching the coronation on television, online and in parks and pubs will be invited to swear aloud their allegiance to the monarch in a “chorus of millions of voices” to be known as the Homage of the People.

People around the UK and abroad will be invited to say the words “I swear that I will pay true allegiance to your majesty, and to your heirs and successors according to law. So help me God”, in a declaration that replaces the traditional homage of peers.


Well I'll be swearing all right, but not in the manner suggested.

I'm expected to declare allegiance to a man who conducts Beethoven in front of his bedroom mirror, who talks to his houseplants, who enthusiastically embraces the fake science of homeopathy, who pays no tax on his vast estates, who cheated on his bride-to-be, Diana, in a railway siding with Camilla on his stag night (he even said he wanted to be her tampon on another occasion), who colludes in the ecological devastation of tens of thousands of acres of Scottish moorland by maintaining them for silly birds for toffs to shoot at, and who sits on his billions by virtue of the royal connection with the slave trade.

Well you declare if you want to. I might have to put you in the same bracket as brexit voters if you do. But it's a free country.   

Christ on a bloody bike...