Mick Hall ✒ is fed up with all the sycophantic  fawning over the death of Philip Mountbatten

 The media coverage of the death of the English queen's husband is well over the top. Elderly men die.  It's part of the process of life. Admittedly in the pandemic some were helped on their way due to the gross incompetence of Boris Johnson, but Betsy's husband wasn't one of them.

After he fell off the perch in his gilded cage BBC radio and TV, ITV, Talk Radio, and Sky News were awash with interviews and programs about the life of this man, whose only real job since his marriage was to walk two paces behind his wife. No respect whatsoever has been given to the millions of us who have no interest in him or his dysfunctional family.

So what is going on? The ruling class never miss an opportunity to nail down their privileges and stamp their feet and this ridiculous charade is an example of this. The front page of last Saturday's Times said it all: Phillip Battenberg is dressed in finery which harks back to the British Empire - need I say more?

Whilst the usually suspects like Johnson, Starmer and their toddies, along with court jesters like Keith Richards and Mick Jagger are praising him to the high heavens, others who really should know better are doing like wise. Amongst the worst of these is the Sinn Fein leadership in the North of Ireland. Alex Maskey said this:

I am very sorry to learn of the passing of the Duke of Edinburgh after a long and full life of public service. I express my sympathy to her Majesty Queen Elizabeth on the loss of her husband and the rest of the Royal Family for the loss of a father, grandfather and great-grandfather.

 Michelle O’Neill went further and said: 

I wish to extend my sincere condolences to Queen Elizabeth and her family on the death of her husband Prince Philip. Over the past two decades there have been significant interventions by the British Royal family to assist in the building of relationships between Britain and Ireland.

I did wonder if they were both doffing caps, genuflecting to the crown as they spoke. Still I'm digressing from the subject.

Let me be clear the monarchy sits at the pinnacle of the British class system and has done for hundreds of years, the unelected position they hold have given the ruling classes the legitimacy to plunder other people's lands, and grind the British working classes into the ground.

It's not a coincidence the current holder of the crown is the richest woman in the world. She pays little tax on investments and properties while her family and forbearers have carved out countless acres of land for themselves. We're told she has no real power, just a figurehead. Oh really - then how come she gets a veto on all new legislation which impacts on her family? Indeed this family have made an artform out of tax dodging, not paying death duties, manipulation, conning the working classes and filling their boots with other people's money. It's high time they all went into the dustbin of history.

⏩ Mick Hall is a veteran Left Wing activist and trade unionist.

Prince Philip Of Plunder

Mick Hall ✒ is fed up with all the sycophantic  fawning over the death of Philip Mountbatten

 The media coverage of the death of the English queen's husband is well over the top. Elderly men die.  It's part of the process of life. Admittedly in the pandemic some were helped on their way due to the gross incompetence of Boris Johnson, but Betsy's husband wasn't one of them.

After he fell off the perch in his gilded cage BBC radio and TV, ITV, Talk Radio, and Sky News were awash with interviews and programs about the life of this man, whose only real job since his marriage was to walk two paces behind his wife. No respect whatsoever has been given to the millions of us who have no interest in him or his dysfunctional family.

So what is going on? The ruling class never miss an opportunity to nail down their privileges and stamp their feet and this ridiculous charade is an example of this. The front page of last Saturday's Times said it all: Phillip Battenberg is dressed in finery which harks back to the British Empire - need I say more?

Whilst the usually suspects like Johnson, Starmer and their toddies, along with court jesters like Keith Richards and Mick Jagger are praising him to the high heavens, others who really should know better are doing like wise. Amongst the worst of these is the Sinn Fein leadership in the North of Ireland. Alex Maskey said this:

I am very sorry to learn of the passing of the Duke of Edinburgh after a long and full life of public service. I express my sympathy to her Majesty Queen Elizabeth on the loss of her husband and the rest of the Royal Family for the loss of a father, grandfather and great-grandfather.

 Michelle O’Neill went further and said: 

I wish to extend my sincere condolences to Queen Elizabeth and her family on the death of her husband Prince Philip. Over the past two decades there have been significant interventions by the British Royal family to assist in the building of relationships between Britain and Ireland.

I did wonder if they were both doffing caps, genuflecting to the crown as they spoke. Still I'm digressing from the subject.

Let me be clear the monarchy sits at the pinnacle of the British class system and has done for hundreds of years, the unelected position they hold have given the ruling classes the legitimacy to plunder other people's lands, and grind the British working classes into the ground.

It's not a coincidence the current holder of the crown is the richest woman in the world. She pays little tax on investments and properties while her family and forbearers have carved out countless acres of land for themselves. We're told she has no real power, just a figurehead. Oh really - then how come she gets a veto on all new legislation which impacts on her family? Indeed this family have made an artform out of tax dodging, not paying death duties, manipulation, conning the working classes and filling their boots with other people's money. It's high time they all went into the dustbin of history.

⏩ Mick Hall is a veteran Left Wing activist and trade unionist.

3 comments:

  1. Mick, That about sums it up. As for the elected SF lackeys, they'd sell thier own children for a few extra votes. Philip should be remembered for the man he was, not only was known for his arrogance and to expressions of contempt he had no conscience about the lives of those lower than him. Not that long before his death he had no crisis of conscience about almost killing a mother and her baby in a reckless display of his arrogance and sense of entitlement.

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  2. There is something very out of kilter with the likes of Alex Maskey and Michelle O'Neill going so far over the top that it reeks of the worst of Gombeen toadying .... the flip-flop is breathtaking ...

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  3. A Greco-German titular racist and bigoted welfare state parasite dies and the Shinners pay homage.

    Not long now for the Abstentionist policy to be quietly shelved for a slice of the bigger pie.

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