You know, there can't be many - if any - other places on the face of the planet, where a political dissident goes to a shop, is greeted by a member of the public, who understands exactly what I mean when I say, "Yes, you're right having a monarchy is deeply problematic in....
...the modern era - a huge strategic vulnerability for any country, at the best of times - even in the case, as events show, a constitutional monarchy as in the UK - but in the case of a "Crown Dependency" like Jersey - in which we're not a "constitutional monarchy" but rather ..
...a remaining - covert - pure monarchy - with the monarch ultimately wielding all power - then that's a big fucking problem. And when that monarch's favourite son is in the habit of arms trading, consorting with the worlds major transnational mafiosi ....
....and fucking trafficked school-girls - then - obviously - that's a big - big - problem. The kind of problem not compatible with even the most basic notions of the effective rule-of-law.
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