An extract covering Queen Victoria reign A polemic by Charies Bradlaugh
Her present Majesty, Alexandrina Victoria, was born May 24th, 1819, and ascended the throne June 20th, 1837, as representing her father, the Duke of Kent, fourth son of George HI. On February 10th, 1840, it being the general etiquette for the Brunswick family to intermarry amongst themselves, she was married to her cousin, Prince Albert of Saxe Coburg, who received an allowance from the nation of £30,000, to compensate him for becoming the husband of his wife. The Queen, more sensible than others of the arduous position of a Prince Consort, wished her loyal husband to have £100,000 a year. The Government reduced this to £50,000; Joseph Hume and the Radicals reduced it still further to £30,000. For this annual payment the Prince undertook to submit to naturalization, to be the first subject in England, to reside rent free in the Royal Palaces repaired at the cost of the nation. He also, on his own account, and for his own profit, attended to various building speculations at the West End of London, and died very rich. He is known as Prince Albert the Good. His goodness is marked—not by parks given to the people, as in the case of Sir Francis Crossley; not by improved dwellings for the people, as in the case of George Peabody; not by a large and costly market place, freely given, as in the case of Miss Burdett Coutts—Peeress without her patent of Baroness;—but by statues erected in his honor in many cities and boroughs by a loyal people. As an employer of labor, the Prince's reputation for generosity is marked solely by these statues. As a Prince, he felt in his lifetime how much and how truly he was loved by his people; and at a dinner given to the Guards, Prince Albert, in a speech probably not revised beforehand, told the household troops how he relied on them to protect the throne against any assaults. The memory of the Prince is dear to the people; he has left us nine children to keep out of the taxpayers' pockets, his own large private accumulations of wealth being inapplicable to their maintenance.
In 15 years of her reign there has been a massive increase in paupers in England and Wales and Ireland.
And so it continues with our present Queen She did not pay tax for the first 40 years of her reign and only voluntarily She does not pay hereditary tax exempt from corporation tax even though the Duchy is run like a business giving them an unfair advantage. Then has huge increase in Sovereign Grant Royal Family are spending more Johnson could have reduced this the Queen didn't offer a reduction. She keeps her investments in offshore accounts. And cannot intervene when Johnson is breaking the law, or when this government is giving billions for test and trace to their mates private companies that do not deliver no she does not or cannot step in to stop this.
And
So many Bills before Parliament now contain provisions to place the state, ministers and/or its agents outside or beyond the law
1. Internal Market Bill
2. Overseas Operations Bill
3. Covert Human Intelligence Souces Bill
This is not normal
The House of Lords is a joke. The fundamental principle of democracy is that those who make our laws do so with our consent. Time for a fully elected parliament.
Former England cricketer Ian Botham has just been sworn into the House of Lords.
What are your thoughts?
Coincidentally I have a video out on Thursday pointing out how poor our constitution is and making the point on how easy it is to attack our rights. youtube.com/c/RepublicCampaign
