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Charles III is a gormless halfwit whose coronation bears witness to a failed revolution
Britain is humiliated, infantilised and disgraced by its enduring tolerance of the monarchy. Any talk of progressive reform must include the abolition of this semi-feudal farce, writes JOHN WIGHT
Making matters still more abhorrent is the fact that King Charles inherited £650m tax-free from his mother, gets £350m a year tax-free from the taxpayer and has an estate worth £22 billion that’s never taxed — yet the still man can’t pay for his own coronation

THAT most famous anti-monarchist and defender to the death of democracy and meritocracy, Thomas Paine, was not a man who was minded to pull any punches when it came to his excoriation of the existence of a hereditary monarchy:

“Kings succeed each other, not as rationals, but as animals. It signifies not what their mental or moral characters are. Can we then be surprised at the abject state of the human mind in monarchical countries, when the government itself is formed on such an abject levelling system?”

Over £100 million of taxpayers’ money is being spent, but not on feeding the hungry or housing the homeless, of which there are millions across a land whose apologists never miss an opportunity to wave their Union Jacks while boasting that Brexit has made Britain great again.

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