Abolish The Monarchy?

Abolish the monarchy? A better idea, since it is actually achievable within the relatively near term, is to create a new British constitution, which clearly enshrines – and re-asserts – human rights and freedoms, while precisely detailing the powers and strict limits of political or governmental powers, as well as corporate-financial powers, election financing powers, and the monarchy – a new constitution which creates a 21st century constitutional monarchy, which retains the monarchy, but merely as figure heads, stripping them of all real power over parliament or the country. That could be achieved. And it would radically transform Britain for the better. As a Canadian with British heritage, having grown up in a Commonwealth country, which is still ruled by the global corporate empire, along with the British crown, I’d urge it be done now. In fact, I would say it is high time, and nearly 400 years overdue.

In the 1640s, a king lost his head to a fanatical dictator, and yet, the monarchy remained alive, while democracy remained weak, constrained, gestational, still in its infancy, as it is today. Sounds like a muddle. Maybe it’s time to fix that.

The rabidly anti-democratic corporate powers are the big problem, but a monarchy that also holds excessive power, in the 21st century? Both need to be addressed – the former, urgently; but the latter also, and without delay.

JTR,

Dcember 18, 2023