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  1. Really The Guardian? Another 'Harry and Meghan' story?

    Sounds a bit like when you went all in on Jason Arday with the others...

    #TheGuardian #AbolishTheMonarchy #FourthEstate #UKPress

  2. "These anomalies exist only because government remains entangled with the Church of England. In a modern democracy, the state should have no role in appointing bishops. The long-term answer is a clear separation of Church and state."

    #AbolishTheMonarchy

    theguardian.com/politics/live/

  3. Very lucrative this waving and ribbon cutting lark if one's a beneficiary of the magic vagina method of choosing a country's head of state.

    #NotMyKing #AbolishTheMonarchy

  4. "Yesterday, during the royal garden party at Holyroodhouse [sic], activists unfurled a banner on a nearby hill reading "Cut the Half Billion Royal Budget" in view of the royals and other guests."

    No election = no legitimacy.

    #AbolishTheMonarchy #NotMyKing

    thenational.scot/news/26244401

  5. There is no such thing as a 'fair' society when the head of state is not elected, but the eldest child born into one single family.

    #NotMyKing #AbolishTheMonarchy

  6. I would never swear allegiance to Charles Mountbatten-Windsor and his parasitic family.

    #NotMyKing #AbolishTheMonarchy

  7. UK - Under-22s to be excluded from #incapacity benefits

    by Mitchell Labiak, March 18, 2025

    Excerpt:

    'Trapped out of work'

    "The reforms come as part of a wider push by Labour to cut spending by reducing the number of people on incapacity benefits, which is forecast to reach a record high by the end of the decade.

    "Experts say the increase is due to a combination of worse #MentalHealth since the #pandemic and a higher retirement age meaning some are instead claiming incapacity benefits.

    "#Starmer said he is 'not prepared to stand back and do nothing while millions of people – especially young people – who have potential to work and live independent lives, instead become trapped out of work and abandoned by the system'.

    "However, #DisabilityRightsUK said that barring under-22s from claiming the health element of universal credit alongside the proposal to increase assessments 'mark dangerous cuts for all #disabled people'.

    "The charity added that the package of reforms was 'not about supporting disabled people into work, but making brutal and reckless cuts'."

    Read more:
    bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckg8pz
    #DisabilityRights #UKPol #BudgetCuts #TaxTheRich #AbolishTheMonarchy

  8. HT @RadicalAnthro Arrest of #Australian #FirstNations protestor at #Sydney Opera House

    by Katy Watson and Tiffanie Turnbull
    10/22/2024

    "Before [the royals] arrived, #WayneWharton, a prominent #IndigenousActivist from Brisbane, was arrested after shouting #AntiMonarchist slogans and refusing a police order to move on.

    "It comes as backlash over an #Aboriginal senator's heckling of #KingCharles in Canberra on Monday intensifies."

    bbc.com/news/articles/c79n9l0p

    #AbolishTheMonarchy #Australia #Decolonize #YouAreNotMyKing

  9. #UK government planning nuclear site in #Scotland - Jack

    "The #SNP leader said the Scottish government would not support new nuclear power stations in the country, and was investing in #renewable energy projects."

    "Scotland's last nuclear power plant - at #Torness in #EastLothian - is scheduled to be shut down by 2028."

    May 16, 2024

    "The UK government is planning to build a new #nuclear reactor in #Scotland despite opposition from Holyrood, according to Scottish Secretary Alister Jack.

    "He told a House of Lords committee he had asked the UK energy minister to plan for such a site as part of a UK-wide strategy.

    "The Conservative minister also called for the Lords to be allowed to scrutinise Scottish laws.

    "First Minister John Swinney accused Mr Jack of being a 'menacing behaviour' and said his government would have 'nothing to do with #NuclearPower.'"

    bbc.com/news/articles/c9eze1dz

    #NuclearBullying #NuclearPowerNoThanks #RethinkNotRestart #NoNukes #ScottishIndependence #AbolishTheMonarchy

  10. If #JoeBiden announced that he was stepping down as #POTUS and named his son #HunterBiden as his successor and the whole thing was going to happen automatically in two weeks time whether we liked it or not… I’m guessing that quite a few people would object, right? So why is it okay that #monarchy in otherwise progressive countries like #Denmark still works this way? #AbolishTheMonarchy #IkkeMinKonge #RepublikNu bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-67

  11. @SharonCrockett @2hip2bL7 @StillIRise1963 Behind every great fortune are great crimes. Problem is we don’t always have those crimes spelled out for us in history books & Shakespearean plays. When it comes to British Royal #wealth we can see exactly where it came from. A millenium of wars, theft, #slavery, colonialism & accumulation.

    #1066 #royalfamily #GreatBritain #UnearnedRiches #Taxation #Coronation #NotMyKing #AbolishTheMonarchy #forfeiture