Tuesday, 8 December 2009

The Red Queen

Vast estates voluntarily handed over to the public purse in return for a tiny percentage of the revenue back each year, and even that conditional, not on the exercise of constitutional functions (which would happen anyway), but on the performance of public engagements. Beat that.
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8 comments:

  1. Break Dancing Jesus8 December 2009 at 17:27

    What a lot of snobbish, elitist, fascist drivel.

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  2. David Lindsay8 December 2009 at 17:32

    Or "fact", as it can otherwise be termed.

    Oddly enough, I've just been discussing something along these lines over on Post-Right: the Political Class in Britain, right across the remaining pretend-spectrum, would love to abolsih the monarchy. But they know that We, The People would never stand for it.

    Crown and People against the Whig magnates - it's an old, old cause. And one that is very much alive.

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  3. Anonymous8 December 2009 at 17:34

    "Fascist"? Is BDJ the most ignorant man in the world? Monarchies are Fascist! I've heard it all now!

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  4. David Lindsay8 December 2009 at 17:37

    While BDJ is undoubtedly the most ignorant man in the world, he also has a sort of nervous tick where the f-word is concerned.

    We could go into the history of monarchies and Fascist regimes, but what would be the point? You know it, I know it, and BDJ is incapable of being taught it.

    Some would say that he writes f, not F, and of course that matters. Well, yes, it does. Or it would. To anyone who knew what he was talking about. So, not to BDJ, then.

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  5. Anonymous8 December 2009 at 17:38

    Careful, he'll go off about Edward VIII.

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  6. David Lindsay8 December 2009 at 17:39

    We can't be that lucky. We could do with the entertainment. But we can't be that lucky.

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  7. James8 December 2009 at 17:42

    You can't be that snobbish, to praise those nouveux riches immigrants the Royals.

    Elitist? In that you know you are better than BDJ. Who doesn't? No wonder you want to bring back grammar schools. Look what their abolition has thrown to fill the places once available to the workers' children.

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  8. David Lindsay8 December 2009 at 17:47

    BDJ, that's what.

    I did once try and explain to him that the old noble houses looked down on the present Royals and that that, not any People's Princess rubbish, was the root of the trouble within the Spencers.

    But the overarching context was that, since Parliament reserves the right to alter the succession, and since the power within Parliament has passed to the Commons while that House has come to be elected by universal suffrage, ours is already a 'res publica'.

    Other people present got these points or already knew them, but it won't surprise you learn that BDJ was visibly discombobulated. Been told from the cradle how clever he is. Couldn't understand a word. Happens to him rather a lot around me, among others.

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