Tilly
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There is very little slavish devotion to the royals, from ‘commoners’ or anyone else. I don’t think you know what you are talking about. Lol.`There probably isn’t a nation on earth that does not have a history of child sexual abuse on a significant level, and gvmnts that cover it up or simply condone it too. Places that practice child marriage are doing just that. Do we refer to these countries as nations of paedophiles? I haven’t heard anyone do so, and I’d thank you not to characterise my nation as such.What is happening NOW (not historically), and not just in the U.K., but to some degree elsewhere in Europe, is fast becoming recognised as being of epidemic proportions, true, and it is most certainly linked to the mass immigration of the last few decades as well as more recently - as are the alarming increases in the sexual assault and rape of adult women occurring in many European countries.Yes, the gvmnt, police etc have attempted to cover it all up - but that’s BECAUSE of who the perps are - it became RACIST to discuss such things (even immigration) when the Labour Party stepped up its programme of flooding this nation with ‘asians’ many years ago and this mindset of PC dishonesty has persisted.
I didn't post my OP as a statement to discuss the effects of child sexual abuse in Europe or the world for that matter. This is specifically about the article in my OP. It's about England and my opinion of their power structure and the 'commoners' slavish devotion to anachronistic traditions such as the "royals."
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And in fact we have a healthy component who are keen to be rid of them, have had for aeons, and that number will likely increase when the Queen is gone, and particularly if Charlie takes over. The royals tend to be more popular with older people, but even they have expressed distaste with many of their antics.
The royals also exercise no power whatsoever, aren’t allowed to comment on political issues, and I don’t know a single person who’s particularly interested in them. If you stood in a high street anywhere and canvassed opinions, you’d probably find almost as many people who find them an embarrassment as those who support them.
What most people realise or believe, however, is that they seem to be good for tourism, on balance.
Our media does its best to drum up interest, and of course royal weddings help - lots of people seem to like weddings. But the royals have had very little influence over anything of import that happens in the U.K. for a very very long time.
So no, not much in the way of slavish devotion at all to our largely CEREMONIAL ‘anachronism’.
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