From @LabourList
The New Statesman has a provocative cover and lead article this week, entitled: “Why Ma’am must go”.
The article cites the recent poll conduted by Republic, which found that 62% of respondents wanted royal finances to be open to full public scrutiny.
Ted Vallance, who wrote the feature, says:
“At worst, the timing of this debate, in the middle of a recession and in the wake of a serious crisis of confidence in our political institutions, threatens a repeat of the Queen’s “annus horribilis” of 1992.”
“The thought of President Branson might be less appalling when the alternative is King Charles III. Just as they have done in the past, the British public may then decide that a republic, not a monarchy, is “what works” best.”
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