God Save The Queen!
George Orwell, in his highly-acclaimed work Animal Farm, tells the tale of how a group of farm animals displace their human rulers to rule themselves equally without fear or favour. “All animals are equal” they declare as they embark upon the new venture, only they soon discover creeping authoritarianism by one of the animals, a pig called Napoleon. The “commandments” are rewritten and, after subtle conditioning of the popular will, the animals declare “all animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others!”
So it is today in the United Kingdom. Having weakened the hereditary principle by annulling the right of all but a remnant of hereditary peers to sit and vote in the House of Lords, and regionalised the administration of the UK via the creation of the Northern Ireland Assembly, Scottish Parliament and the Welsh Assembly – as well as divided into England into nine administrative regions – the Blair Government sought to create a number of directly-elected municipal Hitlers via affording the electorate the opportunity to directly elect the mayors of many major English cities, although thankfully this idea has been largely rejected by Joe Public outside of London. Far from these devolved institutions and directly-elected civic leaders being a means of bringing government ever closer to the people, one increasingly finds they are actively sowing the seeds of separatism between the various parts of the Kingdom and causing further disillusionment with the electorate with the democratic process, as seen in the ever-decreasing turnout in local government and parliamentary elections & by-elections.
The Blair Administration also enacted the 1998 Human Rights Act incorporating the European Convention of Human Rights into UK domestic law which, in effect, allowed judges to usurp the authority of Parliament, by affording the “rights” enshrined in some foreign convention primacy over legislation enacted by MPs and Members of the House of Lords in the United Kingdom Parliament.
The balkanisation of the UK is, of course, subtle preparation for the fulfilment of the Labour Party’s long-held aim of abolishing the monarchy and turning the United Kingdom into a republic or a union of semi-independent socialist republics with a directly-elected president at its head. Today, to paraphrase Orwell, all citizens of the United Kingdom are equal, but some citizens are more equal than others!
Given that the Aussies, quite rightly, rejected moves to displace Her Majesty the Queen as their head of state – knowing, only too well, that a party political figurehead would only divide the Commonwealth of Australia against itself – does anyone seriously believe that a directly-elected president of the UK would command the allegiance and support of a majority of Britons in each part of the United Kingdom, particularly in view of the different party political sympathies in each constituent part of the UK?
Indeed, even if we – in the United Kingdom – were offered an analogous option to that offered to our Aussie cousins (i.e.,. the maintenance of our constitutional monarchy or a presidency, of whom the nominee for president would have to be supported by a majority of all our parliamentarians), the sad fact is that the agreed presidential nominee would almost certainly be a committed Europhile, given that retaining United Kingdom membership of the European Union is about the only policy on which all political parties in the United Kingdom Parliament are agreed upon, in-spite of growing opposition to our membership of the EU by the UK electorate as a whole.
A Europhile President would almost certainly be more out-of-touch with his/her Euro-sceptic citizens than our current apolitical monarch is purported to be from her politically-partisan subjects. It is hardly surprising therefore that, in nations which have enjoyed a constitutional monarchical system of government – such as the United Kingdom and Australia – human rights have been upheld to a far greater extent than in republics headed by all-powerful presidents. All too often, presidents view their election victories as a licence to control their citizens in contrast to constitutional monarchs who view their position as a God-given duty to maintain and uphold the faith and freedom of their subjects. It is therefore inevitable that, in a republic, change is more likely to occur by violence and revolution, than in a kingdom wherein change is likely to be peaceful and evolve through respect for the customs, liberties and rights of the people.
Alas, it is not just the Labour Party who are today seeking to transform the United Kingdom into a republic or Union of semi-independent socialist republics. The Scottish National Party is actively seeking some form of dominion status for Scotland, Plaid Cmyru is seeking the same for Wales, Irish Nationalist Parties in Northern Ireland seek Ulster’s separation from Great Britain and the creation of an All-Ireland Republic, and a large and growing number of Conservative Party politicians – who, hitherto, were staunch supporters of the monarchy and the Union of the United Kingdom – are now toying with amending the 1689 Bill of Rights and the 1701 Act of Settlement to allow our monarch to be, or marry, a Roman Catholic (irrespective of the fact that this would almost certainly result in the disestablishment of the Church of England including the abolition of the monarch’s position as Supreme-Governor of the Church of England and Defender of The Faith), and also removing the remnant of hereditary peers from the House of Lords (which would further weaken the hereditary principle which underpins the institution of the monarchy as we know it), let alone acquiescing with proposals to give more powers to the Scottish Parliament, Welsh and Northern Ireland Assemblies, which is little more than a sop to Scottish, Welsh and Irish Nationalists, who loathe all things British and the whole concept that the United Kingdom should remain one dynamic nation.
Hence as we celebrate the Diamond Jubilee of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, may Almighty God – as King of Kings and Lord of Lords – thwart all efforts to deprotestantise the throne and constitution of the United Kingdom and any initiative to further tinker with the membership and powers of the House of Lords. May He also be pleased to maintain the Union of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, as we cite all three verses of our National Anthem:-
God save our gracious Queen,
Long live our noble Queen,
God save the Queen!
Send her victorious,
Happy and glorious,
Long to reign over us,
God save the Queen!
Thy choicest gifts in store,
On her be pleased to pour,
Long may she reign!
May she defend our laws,
And ever give us cause,
To sing with heart and voice,
God save the Queen!
O Lord our God arise
Scatter our enemies,
And make them fall!
Confound their knavish tricks,
Confuse their politics,
On thee our hopes we fix,
God save us all.
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Originally Posted by emiliano-zapata
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