🚨🚨 BREAKING NEWS: The Met Police are trying to ban Republic's anti-monarchy protest at Trooping the Colour, but we're still planning to rally for an elected head of state this Saturday. Here's the rundown 👇👇 #NotMyKing #AbolishTheMonarchy
Enough nonsense about royal duties and engagements. It's worth getting back to why we should #AbolishTheMonarchy, why we campaign for a republic.
Monarchies are corrupt and corrupting, they rest on feudal values, and our monarchy is bad for equality and democracy. 🧵
On a matter of principle we should reject the monarchy. It is an institution that celebrates inequality, that sees it as the natural order, rather than a problem to be resolved - except when posing for cameras with homeless people.
These principles matter. We compromise our committment to democratic values by retaining the monarchy, Lords and established church. Democracy rests on the idea that we're political equals, coming together as free citizens to govern ourselves. Monarchy stands against that idea.
It may appear trivial, but this kind of nonsense misleads the public about what kind of man we have as a head of state, and about the role of monarch. So it's worth taking a couple of minutes to look at what is actually being claimed here, and the evidence.
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The only sources for the claims are the royals, none of whom are well versed in 'hard work', and 'insiders', which is probably their press team. As for the paperwork, it's telling that it's just "paperwork" and we're never told exactly what it is he's supposed to be doing.
It is written in sweeping terms that avoid direct claims, such as there being no "average" day and how many engagements he does. The reader is left assuming this all amounts to a busy schedule. A look at the Court Circular shows he has long stretches without any appointments.