Monday 18 August 2008

Nick Cohen: Boo, Hoo, I'm Not King

Thank God. Literally.

Of course Nick Cohen hates the monarchy.

He hates constitutionality, continuity, Christianity and the Commonwealth, including the constitutional, continuous and Christian Common Law.

He hates the countryside, the old upper class, and the working class.

He hates the trade union leaders and such like whom monarchs are happy to knight or ennoble, and who are happy to be knighted or ennobled by them.

He hates the idea of sheer providence, conferring responsibilities on the more fortunate towards the less fortunate.

Instead, he wants to send off toffish officers and chavish other ranks to be harvested in endless, pointless, unwinnable wars.

There are many good reasons to demand and to welcome the return of the historically normal and normative activist monarchy promised, and increasingly delivered, by Prince Charles. One of the very best is as a focus of opposition to those present and future wars.

3 comments:

  1. Ah, yes! The anti-war monarchy!

    So was that Prince Harry stunt-double that was sent to Afghanistan? Or was the whole thing just a sinister made-up ploy by the evil fascist leftwing neocon Murdoch Press?

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  2. If he hates the monarchy, how can he be upset about not being King? Surely if he doesn't think there should be a King, that must mean that he doesn't want to be King himself.

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  3. I very much doubt that a Shire Tory like Prince Charles was in favour of this war. He should have said so. As much as anything else, he would thus have done the monarchist cause no end of good in Australia.

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