- Sat May 06, 2023 10:36 am
#43719
You cannot fail to have noticed, as I have done, the rather insidious spin that is currently being propagated, begun some time during the reign of King Chazza's mammy, that the monarch somehow exists to deliver "service" to the people of the UK. The intention is to mask the still persistent, though archaic, truth- which is that we, the people, are the subjects of the monarch, and notionally, at least, subservient to the monarch's will (this is factually correct in several instances, such as the multiple exemptions from inheritance tax, etc, that the monarchy continues to benefit from). The propagation of this myth of "service" began, as far as I can tell, with the many tributes to Phil the Greek's alleged "life of service" when he popped off a couple of years ago, and continued through the endless tributes we had to endure when Brenda finally shuffled off this mortal coil. Now they are using it to attempt to put a positive spin on the obscenely ridiculous taxpayer-funded fol-de-rols taking place as I type. The vox pops with the credulous simpletons lining the route of the gilded coach overnight feed back the news that the mythical "service" spin has taken root, at any rate with the gullible Daily Mail-reading parts of the population at large.
I can think of no way in which King Charles III has, or ever will, provide me, as a citizen, with any sort of recognisable service.
Can you tell that I'm finding the whole absurd, needless, obscenely expensive pantomime taking place today, complete with wall-to-wall BBC toadying, rather disgusting ?
"The opportunity to serve our country: that is all we ask.” John Smith, May 11, 1994.
- By Youngian