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sophiaserpentia ([personal profile] sophiaserpentia) wrote2011-04-29 09:56 am
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Writer's Block: The Royal Wedding

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A Sex Pistols CD.
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[identity profile] sophiaserpentia.livejournal.com 2011-04-29 02:54 pm (UTC)(link)
It's just especially appalling that they're holding this grand spectacle in the immediate wake of telling the poor that they're going to get less benefits to pay for measures that were taken to ensure that the rich didn't see an interruption in the flow of money into their bank accounts.

[identity profile] lassiter.livejournal.com 2011-04-29 05:03 pm (UTC)(link)
But wasn't her dress just stunning?

[identity profile] sophiaserpentia.livejournal.com 2011-04-29 06:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Did you see Jamie Oliver's segment on the Daily Show about it? He pretty much said the same thing -- the British may be in really dire straits economically, but now they have all this royal wedding kitsch to cheer them up!

[identity profile] the-alchemist.livejournal.com 2011-04-29 05:13 pm (UTC)(link)
It makes me feel sick. I would say "ashamed to be British", but republicanism is on the rise, and that's one of many things I'm proud of about my country.

[identity profile] sophiaserpentia.livejournal.com 2011-04-29 06:40 pm (UTC)(link)
I confess I'm not very well educated on republicanism. Do they (you) call for peerage to be entirely abolished, or simply the monarchy?

[identity profile] the-alchemist.livejournal.com 2011-04-29 08:58 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't think any political position should be appointed on an hereditory basis. Most republicans, including Republic (http://www.republic.org.uk/blog/?p=1293), which is the main organisation representing us, are in favour of a wholly elected House of Lords, but I'm happy to explore other options, like keeping Life Peers (who currently form the majority of the HoL) or something similar.

No-one so far as I know is happy with the House of Lords as it currently is: the Labour Party got part way through reforming it about twelve years ago, by getting rid of most hereditory peers but just keeping a few. The interim version was never meant to last this long, but it has.

I would also be in favour of abolishing titles altogether, even if they have no political power connected to them, but that's a less important issue to me.
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