Abolish the Monarchy

King Charles last week stripped his younger brother of his Royal titles following more embarrassing revelations over the prince's friendship with late US paedophile Jeffrey Epstein. Royal sources told how the King had grown “weary and furious” over the continuing tide of scandal plaguing the monarchy and told Andrew that drastic action was needed to stem it.  Andrew agreed following the phone call to give up his titles except prince. He will no longer be Duke of York or a Knight of the Garter – the world’s oldest order of chivalry.

The bombshell came seven months after the suicide of Virginia Giuffre who was trafficked by billionaire Epstein and says she was forced to have sex with Andrew three times.

However Prince Andrew is still a vice admiral in the Royal Navy. He was given the rank by his mum for his 55th birthday, in an act of blatant nepotism. Any other officer would have been dishonourably discharged by now.  

No real consequences for this little shit. He stated in that now infamous interview with Emily Maitlis that "he learnt alot from Epstein"  His ex-wife is no better. Disgusting pair. The Royal Family are rotten to the core. Prince Andrew should be in prison. 

Giuffre's memoirs claim Andrew insisted she sign a one-year gag order to prevent details of her allegations tarnishing the late Queen's platinum jubilee. It was only ever about protecting their reputation and not protecting the victim. The Queen paid for her silence, the monarchy itself financed silence in a sex abuse scandal. Unprecedented.

The Royals are only asking Andrew to stop using his titles to protect themselves and ensure that William can take the throne having moved on from a scandal. Charles and William have protected Andrew for all these years, Now the  media is making them out as heroes for slapping him on the wrist. The Royal family didn’t do anything about Andrew, Like they didn’t do anything about Lord Louis Mountbatten before him.

Buckingham Palace has issued a statement encouraging people to focus on the King's work rather than other matters. Translation - Hey plebs stop holding the Royal family to account for their crimes and get back to blindly worshipping them. They are all complicit including the late Queen, the Prince Andrew scandal shows very clearly that the  monarchy puts its own interests first, not country.

Prince Andrew not using a handful of titles, that shouldn't even exist in a modern democracy is an empty gesture to keep 'The Firm' in business. Epstein's pal will continue his gilded existence in a £30m mansion on the Windsor Estate. 

Only an Act of Parliament can remove these titles but these politicians in Labour and Tories are not willing to do so. Seems like the government protects the Royal family so  the public think they are above the law, Parliament must now show leadership and remove all Prince Andrew’s titles. It shouldn’t be a voluntary matter. 

The latest scandal has  highlighted  the  fact that the monarchy is an undemocratic, antiquated relic that serves no useful purpose in the 21st century.  Far from uniting the country, the monarchy's role is seen by many people to be illegitimate and offensive, and simply entrenches hereditary privilege at the heart of public life. 

While our government patronisisingly preaches democracy to the rest of the world, they still preside over an undemocratic system at home with an unelected head of state .With their vestiges of privilege, the royal family continues to award themselves medals, appoint themselves to top military ranks that they simply they do not deserve. Allow themselves to be nominated as patrons of charities , degrading the real efforts of those who have really made general contributions. 

While the Royals get there houses refurbished  at tax payers expense, so many people cannot afford to heat their homes or put enough nutritional meals on their tables. In this context  this continuing fawning to members of the Royal family and their hangers on, I simply find  offensive.

It certainly reinforces my feelings that some people are born better than others. It's the pinnacle of the class system which has held our society back for so long, enforcing the idea of an elite ruling class. Their nauseating displays of riches, power and privilege ,is simply an affront to human decency. 

The Monarchy has absolutely nothing to offer anyone. The only stability it provides is to entrench the UK class system. The monarchy is a relic of feudalism, perpetuating a system of privilege and inequality.

The British monarchy also has a global history of the slaughter and destruction of indigenous people. Their rapacious greed consumes them, they are a curse on humanity. Broken? Dysfunctional? That’s the monarchy in a nutshell a gilded mess propped up by scandals and shady deals, cozy with Middle Eastern money while the public pays the price.

Your energy bills went up recently - again. Your food bills are continuing to rise steeply. Your council tax went up but the services go down. Yet in the last month we’ve seen golden carriages travel through London and  displays of obscene inherited wealth with the monarchy celebrating the presence of a fascist. 

Sir Keir Starmer once wanted to abolish the Monarchy, and King Charles hates socialism. Only one changed their mind. And it wasn't Charles. The Royal family are an outdated and Dickensian afterthought from the empire, They cost us more than they actually bring into the economy and are not representative of today's modern society.

I believe in a society, where we can all look into one another's eyes as equals , whatever our purpose or position in life. This continuing deference to them is embarrassing. Support for the monarchy is now at its lowest level with more people than ever questioning the future of  an institution we have never voted for and that many feel increasingly alienated from.

An unaccountable billionaire family bankrolled by the public purse. Not much else to say. To become a fairer egalitarian country it’s time to finally abolish the parasitic monarchy and confine these pointless ornaments to the dustbins of history once and  for  all. Open up all their private millions of acres to normal citizens. Enough is enough!.