Anti-monarchist rages to James O'Brien about the Coronation | LBC

I'll try not to rant here, you can if you want, but I probably will, so I've always felt that there was something inherently wrong with people having a position by virtue of their birth, the notion of royal blood, I think that's right. nonsense, but I think you just accepted it as a monarchy when we had the Queen, the queen was always there, the queen was part of the furniture, the pageantry seemed to work by decree somehow, but I find myself looking at our king and queen and feeling and Abyssal Rage yes, I look at them and I think how dare you um and there is a kind of incongruity between these individuals it has partly to do with that I think it also has to do with the other state of the country right now public money spending on this enormous amount of travel when people are struggling to feed their families, people are struggling to heat their homes, it feels bad and I think what it's done for me is just highlighted the horrendous inequalities and like a social justice in this. country, I think Brexit was perhaps the catalyst, Brexit in many ways was based on the same false patriotism that the monarchy gets its kind of oxygen from, if you like, let me clarify that for the benefit of people listening, I know that you are clear. what you mean, but what you mean is because I think the queen was pretty devastated by Brexit.

I mean, you have to read the runes and read between the lines and Charles has made a couple of interventions that would suggest that he also understands the idiocy of It's like a national policy, but you're talking about how it was won, so the priority of the flags and feelings about facts and evidence that lend themselves to Brexit and the royal family very clearly, don't they for the people who are persuaded to care more? more about flags and sentiment than facts and figures, for example, they are likely to be supporters of both Brexit and the Royal Family.

Yes, I think so, and I think Brexit and people's support for the monarchy is based on something that is not progressive. It's about nostalgia, this idea of ​​sovereignty is about nostalgia, I actually saw talk of levers, well Britannia used to rule the waves, yeah, you know, wake up, we're in the 21st century, this has been on the decline, this is a country where there is a bigger gap than ever between the haves and the have nots, we have less social mobility, fewer opportunities for people to advance in life and I feel that the monarchy represents the apex of this class system, which which is an obstacle to people using their talents takes so much away from society because people are not able to thrive and make a contribution because they are just stuck trying to survive and it's strange isn't it, but it gets older the more The longer you look at it, I think that's why the phrase "what was pragmatic is now pragmatic neutral" is the most persuasive the longer you look at it, the angrier it becomes, which is why most of us probably unconsciously don't see it.

We look for a long time or even look at it. that difficult and there are things to enjoy if you don't look at them very closely, probably incongruent with the values ​​we care about now, maybe it was different in 1952, yes, but I just don't think this would work and I think you know, bringing people from color and people of different religions to try to update it, it just doesn't seem to work because, fundamentally, everything is incredibly archaic that you were talking about within the Conqueror and the Duke of Westminster. comments, it is actually demonstrable that people in this country, if they have a name that is derived from a Norman name or a little better off economically, still more than a thousand or almost a thousand years later than people who do not have a Norman name, oh , it is. almost a thousand I was wrong in the sums before I'm sorry, it just holds up well, it was actually me who did the calculations, not here, you got it right, I said almost 1100 years, but in reality it's almost a third because it would be 2066, no.

Yes, it actually goes back centuries and I've seen the research is incredible because the Governor is originally a Norman also known, so there's a dichotomy here in which I share and in fact, I should tell you that text messages, actually, you got quite a few, um, Jenny, that's exactly how I feel, thank you, he says, he says, Trish and um, what this woman is saying is completely indisputable, um, you don't include those text messages in the, so this lady's position is simply indisputable um so you're obviously right and the history of deference and worse is absolutely built into the modern monarchy and yet people can understand that at the same time and not care as much as you do , that's the strange thing, isn't it?

Feel free, you know a caller, a caller, I would never say you will, you're probably right, um, I think another thing that's probably relevant or is probably the reason I feel so angry about this is That the institutions we all used to rely on feel like they no longer work. We have seen in recent years that we no longer feel like we have a benign establishment. We have seen unprincipled supportive behavior and a decline in standards. some of our political leaders, even things like letting people down abroad, what is currently happening in Sudan, what is happening with the way people were betrayed in Afghanistan, we used to have stature in the world and be British, something that was always associated with that was fair play and I just don't see that anymore and I see the monarchy as being in bed with the establishment and I really feel so radicalized by this that I feel like we have to tear down all these institutions, we need a Constitution written by an adult.

We need standards that are written, we don't need all these ridiculous conventions and prerogatives and all this bungling that can be exploited by bad actors. Thanks Jenny. I'm really glad you said botched. I had a momentary glimpse of panic. Because because you clearly had the underwear on, they caught you.