Revolutionary Rants

The Guardian is this morning reporting that the dashing leader of the opposition wants to remove some of the Queen’s powers!

Now, this is a little bit scary for me, as – since I was old enough to talk, almost – I have felt that there should be a complete removal of the money leaching Royals al la ‘The Queen and I’. Mr Cameron does not want this, he wants (and I quote the Guardian once again) to remove the Queen’s powers in a limited field, containing the Queen’s right to:

· declare war and send troops abroad;

· to make international and European treaties;

· to make appointments and award honours;

· to make major changes to the structure of government.

OK, this is small fry to the average anarchist on the street, but even so, coming from a Tory it is quite big news! What does this mean? In a decade or two’s time will I be a Tory for the same reasons my parents were Labour? Are the Tories under Cameron more left wing than bleeping Blair?! Will I be telling future generations how ‘it used to be in my day’ as they attempt to break the latest strike brought on by the tyrannical New Labour government?!?!

One of my old lecturers has a ‘Private Eye’ cover on his door, suggesting that Blair had a face transplant and became Cameron; but it is worst than that. Is it as I suspected as a teenager – that politics is all one big circle with left and right meeting? Or are we just so controlled by the media now that any politician has to fake it like a suited and booted porn star?

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