My friend, Clive Lewis MP, has a petition on the Action Network today, which he explains as follows:
The letter he is asking people to endorse is as follows (and as you can see, I have done that):
I am not much into clicktivism these days, but I think this is good work by Clive and is worth supporting because it makes a simple demand of the new king, which I suspect many here would agree with.
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complete nonsense.. the monarch is entirely symbolic and basically is at the forefront of our tourists industry. We all know that so why pretend otherwise.
The exemptions are real.
What are you talking about?
Richard,
I claim a “spot the royal troll supporter” token which I understand I can redeem in various royal gift shops for high quality tat . 🙂
🙂
Spend it wisely
https://theconversation.com/does-british-tourism-really-need-the-royal-family-205158
This research disagrees on the whole.
The tourism industry generates £127 billion, of which only £500 million is because of royalty.
Strange isn’t it, the French have millions of site seers visiting their castles, stately homes, royal places of interest, including places connected with the excecutions and they got rid of their expensive figure head ages ago. Perhaps we would get more visitors if the Family were consigned to history.
If he agrees and then secretly reneges, how would we know? So long as the monarchy exists, the possibility will always be there.
I am into clicktivism. I can’t go and join in actively so it’s the best thing I can do.
It works for 38 degrees and weownit.
Agreed
It can work
Why are we not demanding that the existing exemptions are repealed?
Good question
I rather hope that is implied, but I might be overly optimistic
You know I was thinking about this the other day – that we could put pressure on the new king to reveal himself and ask for his help in dealing with the government who is running the country so badly. Whether it is the NHS, our transport system, police force or utilities – nothing seems to work anymore and is riddled with problems.
We should ask for his help en masse and see what happens. Just like the old days when commoners asked their king to deliver justice.
So Clive – a man who I have a lot of time for – is on the right track, but lets make the entreaties about ‘the people’s problems’ and not him.