noachian

I recently recieved an Email from the UKIP team and it claimed UKIP was a pro-monarchist party. So that backs up what he said really.

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g hall

Congratulations on getting an email but now my question again Where does it say that please ?

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Britannist

You're not the only one.

Britannist

Despite having some lefty teachers at school, I am pleased to report that the EEC/EU issue came up in discussions I had on politics with several teachers and at least two of them were firmly anti-EU (and not for socialistic-type reasons). Since then we, as a nation, have become even more eurosceptic and anti-EU so I would imagine that the number of people sharing our pro-sovereignty views in the teaching profession has increased.

Westcountryman

My Politics lecturer was a committed EUphile & Guardianista. Come to think of it, all of my lecturers were (and are, actually).

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Britannist

Where does it say UKIP is anti-Monarchy please? If UKIP adopted a republican policy how many members would remain in it? Not many at all I should think.

Here's a quote from an article posted on the official UKIP website on 17.7.2007 in which UKIP leader Mr. Nigel Farage MEP criticises the BBC for being (amonng other things) anti-Monarchy:

(Quote from UKIP website) -

Party leader Nigel Farage said, “The BBC are having a rough old time of it, they traduce the Queen, they cheat children and now they have been forced into an apology for their obvious anti UKIP and Eurorealist bias”.

“Isn’t it about time that the whole question of the BBC’s charter be revisited?”, he asked. “It is remarkable that when these mistakes happen they always happen in the same direction, in the words of Anthony Jay the former BBC journalist, ‘we were anti-industry, anti-capitalism, anti-advertising, anti-selling, anti-profit, anti-patriotism, anti-Monarchy, anti-Empire, anti-police, anti-armed forces, anti-bomb, anti-authority. Almost anything that made the world a freer, safer and more prosperous place, you name it, we were anti it”.”

(End of quote)

Britannist

Yes, the Guardian sells quite a lot of copies to teachers. And a large number of copies to BBC staff I should imagine.

I notice that the BBC and many education bodies use the Guardian to advertise jobs in.

This really should stop - it is not acceptable that these vacancies are being advertised primarily in a newspaper which is known to be the favourite of trade union lefties, Liberal 'Democrats', europhiles, pinkos, global warming alarmists and some reds.

Westcountryman

Annoyingly, my local SU shop sells discounted copies of the Grauniad and the Indy, but sells the Telegraph and The Times at full rate.

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Britannist

I find when I go into my local Tesco in the early evening that there are always lots of copies of the pro-EU Independent unsold. Sometimes it is the only one left.

The strongly eurosceptic Daily Mail seems to sell well .

g hall

I never said it did, what I was asking for was proof of it's pro monarchy stance?

Brit you and many others point out how successful The Sun is and the influence that it has on the electorate please bear in mind that it's owner was Australian and is now an American citizen who has in the past espoused a n anti monarchist view

The reason I raise the point is I believe that we cannot in all seriousness continue with the current position as regards the monarchy.

History tells us that in the past the English used to elect a leader to be the monarch maybe we should look at that again

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"To be "matter of fact" about the world is to blunder into fantasy --and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful."
Remember TANSTAAFL and TANJ