A Fine Line

Do not just bump up everyone behind him. Give Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor's place in the line of succession to someone else. But who? Give reasons for your answer.

Of course I know why CANZUK types ignore the Commonwealth Realms in the Caribbean and in the Pacific Islands, and that is not unconnected to the fact that the others are just about the most liberal countries in the world. But although in principle any of them including this one could change its law of succession unilaterally, in practice all of them would have to approve any such change.

In Canada, Australia and New Zealand, the invitation to do so in this case would lead them to ask why they had a monarchy at all, while even if some of the others were not necessarily as God-fearing as they used to be, several of them are, with all of the rest still sufficiently so to wonder why they retained any connection to this moral atrocity.

The treatment of the Chagossians would not help matters, either. Not very long ago, ever mentioning them was considered one of the many proofs that Jeremy Corbyn was on a different planet, while their only airtime was on the Russia Today programmes of George Galloway and the late Alex Salmond. To this day, those who have lately jumped on their bandwagon are in reality concerned only for the American base.

Keir Starmer will U-turn on anything apart from this. That is not even sinister. It is just very, very, very odd. But it does at least seem to have been a factor in Starmer's refusal, at any rate for now, to allow British bases to be used in any American attack on Iran, the only purpose of which would be to secure whoever had guaranteed Donald Trump's complete control of where the oil and gas went, be that the absolute monarchists around Reza Pahlavi (whose dynasty exists to make even a Mountbatten-Windsor look properly royal), or the old Islamo-Marxist terrorist allies of Saddam Hussein in the PMOI/MEK, or the present regime. Other options are not available, and none of those three is worth a drop of British blood or a penny of British treasure.

Enthroned in the West, in the Gulf and in Israel, the Epstein Class has no moral authority to judge the regime in Iran, Russia, China, North Korea, or anywhere else, including by starving Cuba with a view to the 200-year-old American aim of annexation, as if that Class deserved, of all things, the largest island in the Caribbean.

And more entrenched in Britain than in any other country, so that this is truly Epstein Island, the Epstein Class has no moral authority to impose digital ID, live facial recognition, conscription, abortion up to birth, a National Death Service, a ban on social media for the under-16s, the abolition of almost all trial by jury (against which legal professionals are implored to sign this open letter to the Prime Minister), or the automatic right of appeal to the Crown Court from a Magistrates' Court that had been empowered to impose custodial sentences of two years, with the measure against jury trials to apply to those who had already elected for them, and with neither the puberty blockers experiment, nor the deletion of the Courtsdesk archive, having been anything more than "paused".