The UK’s political system and state are defined by the values of pre-democracy
The nature of the UK’s monarchical state has been central to the brutal use of political power that dehumanises and desensitises the public through the application of repugnant, dishonest policies driven by a failure of the economic and social model which has dominated the UK for the past four decades.
This is not fundamentally about individual royals per se (Charles, Camilla and the assorted hangers-on), but about a historical social system of power, entitlement and feudalism. We must be able to talk about these things, about what is wrong with the current state of Britain, and what if anything can be done to challenge the existing social order. Silence and evasion are a kind of collusion: even more serious and damaging than the self-censorship practiced by the BBC at the weekend.
The UK’s political system and state are defined by the values of pre-democracy captured by the forces of post-democracy, and that central fact and the role of the monarchical state needs to be understood and challenged. This is a prerequisite of government, politics and democracy addressing the issues the vast majority of people face in their lives and a political system and state not owned and distorted by privilege, wealth and an insider class.