So July 22, 2013 repeats the situation of June
23, 1894, when the royal family had three direct heirs lined up. Not much has
been made of this precedent in the Bullshit Media, possibly because the 1894
birth was that of Edward VIII, who proved not to be such a hot royal prospect,
and abdicated when he was expected to turn up for work, preferring to shag an
American Nazi sympathiser.
Bullshit Media has had a field day dropping
its turds this week, gawping and drivelling about how popular the royal circus
will be for the next million years or so. Radio 4’s Today programme asks
republicans why the public seems, as it does seem, so comfortable with the
monarchy.
The answer is that the public feels, justifiably
or not, comfortable enough at the moment, and will happily applaud a moderately
well organised circus decently stocked with a baby script and clown princes. The
monarchy’s weakness will show only when the public doesn’t feel comfortable
with life; when the bread issues – unemployment, homelessness, food prices,
getting killed abroad for no good reason – become acute and the circus looks
like a piss-take.
In tough times an overpaid family which
does little but prance about in helicopters and procreate may find that no one
gives a flying f**k about them, and would rather turn their royal mansions into
publically owned museums.
