Abolish The Monarchy!

[Robot Chicken]

The UN sticking it's nose in our affairs...Does anyone really want a President Brown?

BRITAIN has been told to get rid of the Queen in an official United Nations report.

The UN Human Rights Council says the UK must “consider holding a referendum on the desirability or otherwise of a written constitution, preferably republican”.

The demand by the council, which includes regimes like Saudi Arabia and Cuba among its 29 members, caused outrage last night.

Advisers to the Queen refused to comment publicly. But privately they admitted being astonished.

One senior Palace official said: “People here certainly haven’t detected any appetite for a referendum.

“The Queen is a focus for national unity, identity and pride.”

Royal commentator Robert Lacey said the report showed a complete lack of understanding of the British system.

“Parliament could change the law and abolish the monarchy tomorrow,” he said. “We don’t need a referendum to do that.”

Even campaigners representing hard-pressed taxpayers said yesterday they felt no need to get rid of an institution that costs each adult in Britain around 62p a year.

Matthew Elliott, chief executive of the TaxPayers’ Alliance, said: “With so many human rights abuses around the world, the UN should be busy reporting on issues of starvation, execution and the denial of the vote to huge numbers of people around the world.

“Saudi Arabia and Cuba should pay a little more attention to their own human rights record.”

The UN comments about the Queen were included at the request of the council’s Sri Lankan envoy, Dayan Jayatilleka.

Amnesty International revealed last week that hundreds of people have been kidnapped and murdered in Sri Lanka by shady forces allied to the government. But it is not the only country with an appalling record of its own queueing up to have a go at Britain.

The UN report also includes criticisms of the UK’s record on treating migrants from Sudan – whose government stands accused of killing at least 200,000 people in Darfur.

Syria, whose previous president killed 25,000 in suppressing an Islamist rebellion in Hama, accuses the UK of discriminating against Muslims.

And most bizarrely, Iran – where a woman was stoned to death for adultery last year – takes issue with Britain’s record on tackling sexual discrimination.

Cub’s defiance over Queen oath

A BOY of eight faces being thrown out of the Cubs because he refuses to swear an oath to the Queen. Matthew McVeigh offered to pledge allegiance to “my country” rather than Her Majesty. But the 1st Neilston Scout Group in Renfrewshire said it would breach Scout rules.

Matthew objects to the oath because he is Catholic and the 1701 Act of Settlement says only a Protestant can become the monarch. He said: “I don’t want to make a promise I don’t believe in. I enjoy the Cubs and I don’t want to feel left out.”

The Scout Association allows people of other nationalities residing in the UK to pledge a “duty to the country in which I am now living”, rather than to the Queen.

http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/48121/Abolish-the-monarchy-UN-report-tells-Britain

Other facts:

The Queen and the Royal Family cost the UK taxpayer £37.4m in the last financial year, her financial public accounts reveal.
The cost, equivalent to 62p per person in the UK, rose 4.2% over the previous year, accountants said.

62p a year...

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

The UN sticking it's nose in our affairs...Does anyone really want a President Brown?

:dance:

 

[Happy Seagull]

She can f*** right off! I want my 62p back

 

[Cian]

It wouldn't be a President Brown, you'd do what all recent western democracies have done and get a figurehead, first one would be someone well known, author or media or something.

President Parkinson. President Wogan now that he's got a British passport. Etc.

 

[Robot Chicken]

It wouldn't be a President Brown, you'd do what all recent western democracies have done and get a figurehead, first one would be someone well known, author or media or something.

President Parkinson. President Wogan now that he's got a British passport. Etc.

I smell a poll...

President Wogan.

 

[Buzzer]

I've got no problem with the UN telling us that. But I'd rather they spent more time a)stopping Israel and Iraq from dragging us to WWIII and b) the UN making sure their soldiers stop raping women and children in countries they're supposed to be protecting.

f*** sake. Talk about misplaced priorities.

EDIT - and don't get me started on Mugabe, Eritrea, Slavery in North African and Asian countries...

 

[clapham_gull]

Lovely stuff, wonderful quote from the express comment section

"LET US NOT KID OURSELVES, IT IS NOT THE QUEEN ANYONE IS OBJECTING TO, BUT THE PROSPECT OF QUEEN CAMILLA WHICH THE WORLD WILL NOT TOLERATE.."

That's right the WORLD will not tolerate Camilla.

 

[Beach Hut]

Yet the Royals bring in millions of punds of business to the UK but lets just conveniently forget that

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

It wouldn't be a President Brown, you'd do what all recent western democracies have done and get a figurehead, first one would be someone well known, author or media or something.

President Parkinson. President Wogan now that he's got a British passport. Etc.

That's a bit SEXIST of ya MYOB.

Judging by day-on-day tabloid coverage, our next ruler will be Cheryl 'Racist Bitch' Cole ( nee Tweedy)

 

[clapham_gull]

Yet the Royals bring in millions of punds of business to the UK but lets just conveniently forget that

That's often quoted but never really proved.

Buckingham Palace would probably generate more income if the Royals did one and the whole place was open.

 

[Buzzer]

Fern Britton as Queen and Rolf Harris as King.

I could live with that

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Reckon like in the olden days when there was an 'Its A Knockout' Monarchy Special, there should now be a 'Weakest Link' Monarchy Special. You are ALL The Weakest Link. Now. f***. Off.

 

[Cian]

That's a bit SEXIST of ya MYOB.

Judging by day-on-day tabloid coverage, our next ruler will be Cheryl 'Racist Bitch' Cole ( nee Tweedy)

All but three years of my life I've lived under a female president....

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

All but three years of my life I've lived under a female president....

Good point, well made...

 

[fatbadger]

Who has the position should be considered irrelevant to the principle of the position. Monarchists support the principle of monarchy whether it's a stable, unruffled figure like the current queen or a raving idiot like Charles holding it. History is full of extremely unpopular individuals in the role, but it doesn't stop monarchists supporting the principle of monarchy. Similarly, the possibility of a President Brown or a President Cole should have no effect on the desires of republicans or, indeed, the arguments of those opposing democracy.

 

[Buzzer]

Who has the position should be considered irrelevant to the principle of the position. Monarchists support the principle of monarchy whether it's a stable, unruffled figure like the current queen or a raving idiot like Charles holding it. History is full of extremely unpopular individuals in the role, but it doesn't stop monarchists supporting the principle of monarchy. Similarly, the possibility of a President Brown or a President Cole should have no effect on the desires of republicans or, indeed, the arguments of those opposing democracy.

All good points. Perhaps we should have both. Lets have a monarchy and pretend that they run the country but actually give power to an elected leader who basically tells the monarch to rubber stamp legislation passed in Parliament.

That'll keep fawning royalists like me happy and let me keep tugging forelocks and the rabid commie republicans can just ignore the monarchy.

Bit like what we've got, really.

 

[acrossthepond]

What a pathetic f***ing rag the express is.

Take something out of context, put a xenophobic spin on it and wait for middle England to splutter toast crumbs all over the place

Here's the report in full for anyone that's interested. Make yourself a cuppa before you start...

http://http://daccessdds.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/G08/136/44/PDF/G0813644.pdf?OpenElement

If the place wasn't staffed by such complete fuckwits (and that goes for the torygraph to an extent too) then we might get a bit of objective and informative reporting.

These comments do not reflect the opinion of the UN, they are agenda items put forwards for discussion by member states. In this case Sri Lanka.

It would have been much more interesting had this been reported accurately, with a follow up on why SL is perhaps trying to piss off HMG.

Twats - Desmond should stick to tits and arse, at least he understands that.

 

[Juan Albion]

Have they maybe forgotten that she is the queen of quite a few other countries, too, including this one?

 

[Uncle Buck]

Viva La Republic.

 

[sod1]

god save the Queen