Anyone worried that that gimmick involving
embassies might subvert Canadian independence has reckoned without the extreme
anti-Commonwealth anti-monarchism of every generation of the Conservative Party
from that of David Cameron and William Hague onwards.
The general antipathy towards the Commonwealth
goes all the way back to the 1950s. But the real high point of it, at least up
to now, was under the Prime Minister who, accordingly, both signed the Single
European Act, and sought to supplant in her own person the monarchical and
Royal roles on the national and international stages.
This time last year, Iran condemned Canada for
violating the hunting, fishing and other rights of various Aboriginal peoples.
Those rights used to be guaranteed by the British (not the Canadian) Crown,
which was why a body of Labour MPs voted against Thatcher’s legislation to
pre-empt impending courtroom defeats on both sides of the Atlantic by cutting
Canada’s last constitutional ties to the Parliament of the United Kingdom,
thereby removing those guarantees.
But without the Queen in principle and a body of
Labour MPs, Old Left and Old Labour Right, in practice, on whom can those
Aboriginal peoples now call? Like the Christians of Lebanon in the face of
another New Right favourite cause, they can now call only on Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad. Thank you, Maggie. Thank you for acting in very literal contempt
of court, and against the most plangent Aboriginal and French-Canadian
entreaties, in order to renounce the British Parliament’s role in the amendment
of the Canadian Constitution.
As well as to abolish the power of the Parliament
of the United Kingdom to legislate for individual Australian states, to end the
British Government’s consultative role in Australian state-level affairs, and
to deprive the Queen’s Australian subjects of their right of appeal to Her
Majesty in Council. On the instructions of Rupert Murdoch. Of course. Whose
titles she was using to vilify the monarchy and the Royal Family. Of course.
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