Far More Important

Neil Clark writes:

My view on the monarchy is this: if we were starting entirely from scratch, then we wouldn’t need a monarchy. But we’re not starting from scratch. Abolishing the monarchy would take an awful lot of time and effort, and it’d hardly be a vote winner either.

There are simply far more important things for progressives and socialists to concern themselves with, such as countering the power of international capital, defending the NHS, and campaigning for the re-nationalisation of our public transport and the utilities.

It wasn't the House of Windsor that led us into the Iraq war. And it’s not the House of Windsor that lobbied to have our railways privatised. International capital is the big foe. Not the Royal Family.