The Time Has Come to Get Rid of This Dysfunctional ‘Royal’ Family and Have an Elected Head of State
It is understandable that people will
be delighted at the arrest of ‘Prince’ Andrew (I don’t think Charles should be allowed
to get rid of his embarrassing relative just like that – he has to live with
the discomfort).
In a way so am I of course. Anything that
discomforts and embarrasses this obnoxious man, who was an arms salesman for
Britain, is to be welcomed. [See Arms and the
Royal Man,
Scottish Left Review]
Questions however need to be asked.
Last November I wrote
that Andrew Was The Tip Of A Royal Iceberg of paedophillia. Charles had also covered
for a series of child abusers – Bishop Peter
Ball who was later gaoled
despite Charles having provided him with a house as well as Jimmy Saville and
Lord Mountbatten The real question was why Andrew wasn’t prosecuted for rape
& conspiracy to pervert the course of justice?
Bishop Peter
Ball sentenced to jail for child abuse
This is not a case of no one being
above the law. Andrew has been treated with kid gloves for the past decade by
the Metropolitan Police. They have steadfastly avoided questioning him over sex
with a minor who was being trafficked.
Andrew was not arrested for rape or
for trafficking in women. He has been arrested for allegedly handing over
confidential government documents. That is a very different thing. And whether
he is guilty of this we have no idea.
Prince
Andrew's BBC Newsnight interview is back in the spotlight - watch key moments
What is really outrageous was that as
soon as he settled the lawsuit with Virginia Giuffre in 2022 he should have
been arrested on suspicion of rape. He wasn't. It beggars belief that he handed
over a reputed £12 million to someone lying about having sex with him.
But the Metropolitan Police showed no interest in pursuing it just as its shown no interested in more recent revelations about Andrew ordering, as if in a takeaway, girls from Epstein.
This is the real scandal not the trifling matter of a few government documents.
In February 2022, after the settlement
with Virginia Giuffre, I posted a blog
asking whether or not rape had now been officially decriminalised. The Met
chose to ignore this somewhat obvious observation.
In case Cressida Dick, the previous
Commissioner of the Met before the present incumbent racist Zionist, Mark
Rowley hadn’t got it, I posted a meme involving a queue at Buckingham Palace on
news that Andrew was giving away money to people he had never met.
Andrew had only agreed to settle with Virginia Giuffre after his bid to prevent the case that Virginia Giuffre had launched failed. See Bid
to dismiss sexual assault lawsuit. In other words he paid up to avoid a
court case in front of a jury.
In November 2019, after the interview
with Emily Maitlis, I posted a blog saying that
It’s not a carefully controlled, softball interview with the BBC
but an interview under arrest which is required.
I was interested in the Police statement that
they had ‘arrested a man in his sixties
from Norfolk’. When I was arrested, for a ‘Hamas related terror offence’ i.e. saying I support the right of
the Palestinians to resist the occupation, the Police issued
a statement naming me and the street where I lived. I guess it’s one law for the Royals and
another for Commoners. [see Argus 31.1.25]
Andrew was detained for a very few
hours today under questioning. Now I’ve also been arrested on many occasions
and the first thing that happens is that you are put in a cell for a few hours
before being questioned, finger printed, photographed and DNA taken.
I would be interested to know if
Prince Andrew was also kept in the cells before being questioned. I suspect
not.
And the other question is why Jeffrey
Epstein was allowed to roam, almost at will, the various palaces and royal establishments
as well as attend the Royal Enclosure at Ascot.
One thing is for certain. This circus
of the Royal Family and the Crown should end. This dysfunctional family is an
embarrassment. What we need is an accountable, elected head of state. Not someone who owes his office to the
misdeeds of his long forgotten ancestors.
We don’t have hereditary scientists or
mathematicians and we certainly shouldn’t have hereditary office holders and
heads of state.
Tony Greenstein
Why have an elected Head o f State? These creatures have individual powers, typically used for seriously reactionary purposes. It also reinforces bourgeois leader as supreme individuals. It superficialises politics.
ReplyDeleteI so agree. I don't recognise a need for a Head of State elected or otherwise. The people are sovereign.
DeleteI agree, in a socialist society, however we live in a capitalist society. So do we abandon democratic reforms? I would prefer a head of state elected if there has to be one and most capitalist states if not all have one
DeleteI just heard an interview on the CBC with Graham Smith, the head of the anti-monarchist group Republic, who said he had actually started a private prosecution, and that this may have goosed the police into action.
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ReplyDeleteGood article Tony. In all the coverage about the Epstein files, I haven't heard any mainstream journalists or news hosts ask questions about what the aim of his blackmailing was, or who it might of been on behalf of, even when they might acknowledge he was doing it. So we're just left with this narrative of a rich well connected pervert who pimped women and sometimes blackmailed powerful men just because, with little to no mention of people like Robert Maxwell.
ReplyDeletewell we know don't we? Its Russia! No doubt Ehud Barak and Robert Maxwell, who was buried in what was effectively a state funeral, are also Russians. No mention of the 'only democracy in the Middle East' of course.
DeleteOf course, it was all Russia.
DeleteBritain is a republic and has been since the military coup d'etat of 1688. Britain has a unicameral parliament with a fascist electoral system, hence it being a plutocracy and an empire with one colony, England.
ReplyDeleteWhy did Virginia Giuffre take money rather than go to court?
ReplyDeleteI suspect that Virginia Giuffre was under a lot of pressure, not least from her lawyers and didn't want to end up bankrupt. In Britain if you refuse to settle and then get awarded less than the offer you end up with the other side's costs or part of them plus your own. Also Andrew may have settled without an admission of liability but people weren't fooled as to why he handed over millions.
DeleteJust love this example (from Wales Online) of His Ex's delusions:
ReplyDelete"Andrew has long envisioned his funeral as a lavish event with the entire nation in mourning - a scenario that seems unlikely given his fall from favour. He envisaged a grand affair in St George's Chapel in Windsor, televised to a grieving nation."
It's the sort of scenario that Galton and Simpson wrote for Tony Hancock.
Yes it does make one rather smile. I just hope I live to see it!
DeleteLeaving aside the possible sexual assault charges there is another aspect. Since mandelson was also passing similarly secret intelligence to epstein and also is said to have actively promoted the selection of the former prince as trade envoy the question arises as to whether charges of conspiracy for misconduct in public office should be added to the investigation.
ReplyDeleteconspiracy charges are only for people like us. Ruling class conspiracies are just good planning
DeleteWhat are we to make of Chomsky, who was apparently linked to Epstein ?
ReplyDeleteI suggest very little. His wife has explained, because he can no longer speak after a stroke, that they were taken in and made a mistake
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