by antiaristo » Tue Apr 11, 2006 5:43 pm
Just by chance, in today's Guardian<br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr><!--EZCODE FONT START--><span style="font-size:medium;">Bottom of the class</span><!--EZCODE FONT END--> <br><br>The news that Prince William has been dressing up as a member of the working class shouldn't surprise us, says John Harris. <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>From sneering comedy shows to elitist politics, class snobbery is alive and well</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> <br><br>SNIP<br><br>There is, of course, a conversation to be had about whether an increasingly diverse Britain has made the old notion of working-class identity redundant, but the numbers still point up an absurd aspect of the new snobbery. If, as evidenced by politicians, comedians and our future king, <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>mocking and demonising supposed white trash is our new national pastime</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END-->, we're victimising an awful lot of people.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/britain/article/0,,1751272,00.html">www.guardian.co.uk/britai...72,00.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>The article is not well-written, but at leasy has the merit of timeliness. For does it not resonate deep and strong with what I wrote about my own feelings earlier in this thread?<br><br>Speaking of Sir Sean Conney, look at the lovely picture here<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://news.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=546062006">news.scotsman.com/scotlan...=546062006</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr><!--EZCODE FONT START--><span style="font-size:medium;">His and hers Tartan Day for royal couple</span><!--EZCODE FONT END--><br><br>ANGUS HOWARTH<br> <br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>CAMILLA, the Duchess of Rothesay</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END-->, proved a year of marriage has not altered her fashion sense when she visited a Deeside church yesterday sporting the same red hat that she wore on her honeymoon.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--> <br><br>CAMILLA, the Duchess of Rothesay.<br>You thought she was Duchess of Cornwall?<br>No. Not always.<br>The truth is they call themselves different names according to whether they are in England or Scotland.<br>And they spend an enormous amount of time in Scotland.<br><br>Now here's the thing about those two pinnacles of the British class system.<br>They could have done the same as his sister, Princess Anne.<br>They could have re-married in the Church of Scotland, before a churchman, and done so quite legally.<br>But they chose instead to participate in an illegal ceremony held at Windsor Town Hall before a lay official.<br><br>That is illegal:<br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr><!--EZCODE FONT START--><span style="font-size:medium;">Not for the first occasion in this government's lifetime is there a dispute over a piece of legal advice.</span><!--EZCODE FONT END--> <br><br> <br>Paperwork on Royal weddings has a long history <br><br><br>The Attorney-General's assertion that the war against Iraq was lawful continues to divide experts in international law. <br><br>Similarly constitutional lawyers are at odds over the legality of the marriage in a civil ceremony of Prince Charles to Camilla Parker Bowles. <br><br>It is doubtful whether <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>the Lord Chancellor's statement</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> will end the disquiet. <br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>It is clear and unequivocal that the 1836 Marriage Act, which introduced civil marriage to England and Wales, did not apply to the royal family</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END-->.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--> <br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4292089.stm">news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4292089.stm</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>So why partake of an illegal act in England, when a lawful ceremony was available in their beloved Scotland?<br><br>The English Crown. That's where the power and money is.<br><br>That's why the daughter of the Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne stole the English Crown in 1937.<br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>For the Scottish upper class.</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br>You know, that person that engineered the coup against Harold Wilson in 1976.<br><br>{Added second edit<br><br>This thread explains the source of that power, and what must be done to secure that power.<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://p216.ezboard.com/frigorousintuitionfrm10.showMessage?topicID=3180.topic">p216.ezboard.com/frigorou...3180.topic</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>End second edit}<br><br>And that's why her grandson is trying to steal it once again.<br>What we are seeing right now is the beginning of a massive public relations campaign, to just that end.<br>Look out for interminable "Queen Camilla" stories everywhere in the media.<br><br>Next, the Lord Chancellor.<br>Who just happens to play the defining role in both "dodgy advice" examples cited in the BBC report quoted above.<br><br>And the man that explains patiently why it is that we English do not need a parliament of our own to look after our interests.<br><br>Added on edit<br><br>Here's a clue, Lord Chancellor<br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr><!--EZCODE FONT START--><span style="font-size:medium;">Met chief warns more could be shot</span><!--EZCODE FONT END--> <br><br>Rosie Cowan, Vikram Dodd and Richard Norton-Taylor<br>Monday July 25, 2005<br>The Guardian <br><br><br>Britain's most senior policeman remained defiant last night over the new "shoot-to-kill" policy for dealing with suspected suicide bombers, despite the killing last week of an innocent man by armed officers.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/attackonlondon/story/0,16132,1535605,00.html">www.guardian.co.uk/attack...05,00.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>The story does not refer to the fact that more could be shot in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, but not in Scotland.<br><br>But it DOES refer to "<!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>Britain's</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> most senior policeman".<br>So we are given the strong impression that he is talking about the whole of Britain.<br><br>Not so.<br>There is no shoot-to-kill in Scotland.<br><br><br><br><br><br><br> <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=antiaristo>antiaristo</A> at: 4/11/06 4:22 pm<br></i>