After eleven days of wall to wall, nauseating propaganda and English exceptionalism Elizabeth Windsor was finally put to rest yesterday. The pomp and ceremony of the past 11 days with no expense spared just part of an elaborate marketing exercise to keep the establishment and spivs in their comfy status quo.
Do not think for an instant that Mrs Windsor’s slow journey from Aberdeenshire to Edinburgh was because of her adoration or recognition to the people of Scotland or the affection of the Scots to her? It was purely political. Note how she was not driven through her English heartlands to allow the people there to ‘show their respects!’ She was straight on to a plane for London and the big show! The subjects in Wales were ignored because the establishment they think unlike the Scots are not on the verge of kicking out the crown and its ‘sovereignty’ or so they thought until the new incumbent made his tasteless meet the people tour to Cardiff.
The ultra loyalists in Northen Ireland should also take heed neither Mrs Windsor or her advisors thought you worthy enough of a short tour of the occupied six counties. Bear that in mind the next time you are battering your Lambeg drums and praising your English monarch for God and Ulster! The crown doesn’t care a jot for you! When will you open your eyes?
The people of the UK on every available TV and Radio channel were assailed with establishment propaganda and bullshit that would have embarrassed North Korea! Mrs Windsor painted as an almost deity like figure who had never put a foot wrong in her 96 years and was taken from us too soon and so cruelly! Like many I avoided the entire vomitfest that unfolded over the past 11 days.
The gullible British public were fed more lies than contained in a Tory Party manifesto. How this God like woman never involved herself in anything political. Not said was literally the thousands of times the monarch interfered in Bills going through her parliament that would affect her wealth or standing! They omitted to mention 2014 outside of Crathie Church or her purring down the phone to posh boy Cameron on 19th.September, 2014 when he told her the nationalists had lost the referendum or was it on the 17th September he told her? Incidentally, I think it was these two anti-Scottish acts that moved many of the ambivalent monarchists in Scotland into full-blooded republicans.
We all know how much our Imperial masters like to talk of the sovereignty of parliament. The Westminster Parliament takes its ‘authority’ direct from the sovereign. It acts in the sovereign’s name in everything it does. That part the broadcasters didn’t really want to talk about too much nor that The Commander-in-Chief of the military is the British monarch. It was Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II throughout her reign that was in charge, while the British Prime Minister was merely the de facto authority. Any and all of the many atrocities and barbaric acts carried out by the British military in her 70 years are her responsibility! Anyone that watched the past elven days were you informed of that?
Defacto:- existing or holding a specified position in fact but not necessarily by legal right.
Therefore throughout her reign the British military were acting in her name. All the deaths of British subjects of the crown in Kenya, Cyprus, Aden/Yemen, Malaya, Singapore and countless other imperial killing fields are down to Mrs Windsor who could have at anytime stopped her defacto PM from killing her subjects, she chose not to. The reason was simple England’s best interests are also the monarch’s best interests! Worst of all the war crimes of Bloody Sunday and Ballymurphy to name just two were being perpetrated in her name she remained silent. Yet the Englush wonder why football fans with an affiliation or family connection to Ireland are not kowtowing to this institution?
At the time or since these atrocities by her military she said and did nothing! Countless other murders and crimes against humanity by her military in the six occupied counties were omitted from their 11 days of Anglo-sycophancy and self- congratulations.
These past eleven days were all about the English needing to self-praise and continue the illusion as to their standing in the world! They use sport in the exact same fashion. It is all to hide the reality that England is now just an insignificant little outcrop in the North Sea hanging desperately on to past glories that never were!
Funnily enough they didn’t want to remind you how using her powers which were considerable she avoided taxes and regulations others had to follow. The Scottish government has given the Queen advanced access to at least 67 parliamentary bills deemed to affect her public powers, private property or personal interests under an arcane custom inherited from Westminster. She loved Scotland so much she literally did everything in her power to avoid paying her fair share of taxes to Scotland!
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/jul/28/queen-secretly-lobbied-scottish-ministers-climate-law-exemption
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/jul/28/revealed-queen-vetted-67-laws-before-scottish-parliament-pass-them
When she died the first thing, the courtiers did was say, “the queen is dead, long live the king!” No hanging about they do not want a broken line. Everything that is wrong with society in the British Union stems from the monarchy. All the divisions of class, status, wealth and privilege stem from the monarchy and their ancient pecking order. Monarch, Duke, Baron, Earl and so on, where in that list do you think comes the single mother with two children living in a sink estate?
The bowing and scraping are passed down the line too. The appointed Lords and Ladies unelected who make laws we are expected to look up to because they have been given a title by the monarch. We are expected to believe that because the monarch appoints the Prime Minister who in turn appoints their toadies to Cabinet that these are the best persons for the people to trust with their well being!
Let us be very clear everyone that is appointed is in place to protect the wrung above them all the way back up to the tax avoiding parasites called King! When you pay your taxes, it is to HMRC when you go to court it his the Crown versus you. When it suits, the monarchy is just a figurehead in reality it is all about keeping the privileged few in the obscene wealth and position where they sit now.
So now we have a new King, big whoopee, you, will be fed the line over the coming months how Charles is enlightened and wants to reform the monarchy. Do not be fooled, the instances with the ink well and the fountain pen in Northern Ireland show you that enlightenment bypassed that man many decades ago.He is all about entitlement, not enlightenment.
Everything that has happened since Mrs Windsor drew her last breath has been about protecting the status quo in the UK. A pretendy monarch sitting above a pretendy Parliament that acts like a pretendy democracy governing by a pretendy unwritten constitution in a pretendy country called the UK.
Mrs Windsor is dead and while I bear neither her or her successors ill will I just wish the entire monarchial system had died with her. It is an affront in the 21st century that such an institution still exists except as a tourist attraction. If Charles is truly a reformer, he would instruct his ministers to bring forward a written constitution, abolish the monarchy and in its stead institute a proper democracy with fair voting and equal say by all the participants in this alleged union of equals. A Union of four nations all with a vote and veto so something as wrong as Brexit or poll tax or preferential electricity pricing could never happen again to the people of the entire UK.
Sadly, we all know the last thing, the elite, the spivs, and speculators want is true democracy and equality in a nation state. Neither the British Monarchy nor the Union will reform. It is against their interests to do so. Your interests and well being likewise is not in their best interests so guess who will win out? While you are struggling this winter to heat your homes or feed your weans or grandweans know that not a single MSP, MP, Lord, Earl, Baron, Duke or King will have any such problems with heat or food, because you are paying to keep them safe from hardship! Hardship is for us plebs, not the elite!
But they do put on a great parade for us, don’t they? All smoke and mirrors to hide the systemic corruption and inequality in our British society.
The one shred of good to come out of all of this was this, the new Monarch embraced and gave standing to our Claim of Right. That same document means not only can we sack him but we can also sack this accursed union!
Bring on the Scottish Republic, I say, how about you?
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Well said that man! , they know the writing is on the Wall and they will need to listen to the people specially in the so called Commonwealth or they might be up against that Wall (figuratively speaking of course)
Having travelled to NI several times in the last couple of years either to pass through or attend Motorcycle Road Races , one of which was recently cancelled due to the track being sabotaged by Loyalists, and having spoken with some of a Loyalist persuasion, it looks as if trouble is brewing over the border in the Irish Sea. So unless the Brit Establishment breaks an International Agreement its going to get messy and if they do its going to get messy.
We have to get our act together and get organised behind Salvo and get those numbers signed up !
So British Divide and Conquer coming back to bite them again , it was interesting reading yesterday that the Saudi Islamic Cult of Wahhabism is a creation of British Divide and Conquer Policies, this time in a small piece of desert , that when it discovered oil was able to promote their Cult Worldwide and is behind all the Islamic Terrorism including ISIS since the 70’s. His time British Imperialism coming back to bite the Worlds Bum.
By God.
You have just put into words my entire thoughts on these privileged toads.
Well done.
Now we just need the Scottish public to kick ass!
I will not hold my breath..however as SNP are not in a hurry.
We will do it without them
I sincerely hope so-with every single fibre of my being! As always -a fantastic piece of writing! Thank you!
To be honest I’ve never had strong views one way or another on the monarchy I really couldn’t care less, independence is my thing nothing less, being an avid reader of Scottish history I can see the case for maintaining some form of our royal heritage but having witnessed some of the sickening displays of royal sycophancy over these last few days I’m now firmly in the republican camp
Welcome aboard fellow rebel!
President McLeod has a nice ring to it don’t you think ? 🙂
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Well said sir!
Thank you
Charles has come to Scotland to grieve now.
Hopefully this time Covid free.
BTW is sausage fingers infectious?
Haha naw they are even cashing in on them by selling the Charlie sausage fingers sausages. 😂
“Like many I avoided the entire vomitfest that unfolded over the past 11 days.
The gullible British public were fed more lies than contained in a Tory Party manifesto. How this God like woman never involved herself in anything political. Not said was literally the thousands of times the monarch interfered in Bills going through her parliament that would affect her wealth or standing! They omitted to mention ……”
If you avoided it, how do you know what was said?
Reliable sources of course if I have written anything inaccurate you can feel free to point it out.
Have shared this. No element of the British State grooming since Elizabeth Windsor died has been unplanned or accidental.
Thank you Joan
Her coffin was made thirty years ago, or so my brother told me.
I am Scottish and I don’t accept the man of a dozen names (none of them remotely Scottish) as King of Scots. Nobody has asked me or any of the 5 million Scottish people.
I am fed up being told I am in mourning – I’m not and neither are a lot of annoyed people I’ve met in shops and bus queues.
She has looked after her own interests vigorously and I’ve no doubt her successor will do the same.
Scaramouche Scaramouche can you do the fan dan go ?
Haud oan , that was the other Queen , win’t it ? I always get Bohemian n Bavarian Rhapsody mixed-up
I never seen a bit of it , other than by being in the wrong place at the wrong time – it wasn’t necessary in order to be aware of the ridiculous, overblown Cecil B De Mille ( with a bit of Hitchcock thrown-in ) scale of it . The BBC presented it as one long , no-expenses-spared Costume Drama – which , of course , it was and must have been drooling at the extravagance of it all . I can see it sweeping the board ( if not the bored ) at the next BAFTAS . KC3 is a shoe-in for Best Supporting Actor . Best Actor – no mystery there – will be awarded posthumously .
You covered it all Roddy , the whole propagandised lot of it . Nothing to add except ……TF it’s * over * .
Or is it !!!? Don’t be surprised if a sequel is in the planning . ” Highgove Abbey ” sounds promising
Curious why I am blocked?
You weren’t but you are now
Dead parrot, and now for something completely different… Cue music… Monty Python on bagpipes… Unfortunately, next up will be Coronation Street…
A braw synopsis Roddy.
Independence is not really independence if a people remain subject to an alien Crown and its establishment of toadies lacking in human values who aye run all our institutions, and which is at the root of our oppression and inequality. Former colonies are now rapidly ditching the Crown and Scotland will need to do likewise if we are ever to be truly liberated from imperial oppression.
I am 62 years old and in that time I’ve heard many politicians say stupid things but this example of verbal diarrhea has to to the worst
A great article and I agree with the very powerful sentiments and opinions therein contained.
However, I am not so sure that “At last the fandango is over!”
The burial of the weekend has been completed … but that was just the prologue.
The funeral, and the lead up to it, is just the start of the propagandising.
We’ve got many more months of Royal fetish and sycophancy to go before the Coronation of the new King. Given the latter’s relative unpopularity the cap doffers and forelock tuggers at the BBC and assorted press prostrators are going to be trying even harder.
It worked 25 years ago when they rehabilitated the Monarchy after the death of her (former) daughter-in-law and mother of the current heir to the throne. So why not now?
Couldn’t persuade myself to watch any of it! But the NC500 was still busy
on Monday which means that either a) many were watching the whole ridiculous nonsense while careering round the North Coast or b) they’d decided to give it a miss. Whatever the reason for the endless traffic, we were denied the lovely peaceful day we’d anticipated.
Thanks Roddy for yet another excellent article…….oh, and by the way Graeme George, Lindsay (whatever his name is) lost his marbles many moons ago.