King Charles’ coronation is a 'pointless vanity parade,' says Britain’s leading anti-monarchist
TIME spoke with Republic’s chief executive Graham Smith about why support for the monarchy is declining, what support for a republic indicates, and where Britain’s anti-monarchist movement will head next.It’s very simple: Instead of a coronation, we want an election. Instead of Charles, we want choice.
For people who are more conservative in their views on the monarchy, what message would you give them? There’s no such thing as a modern monarchy. It’s either what we’ve got or nothing. I mean, it just doesn’t… there’s no room for it to reform. And they talked about modernizing, but the coronation is a great big advert for them not modernizing. It’s the same medieval nonsense that they did 70 years ago, the same disguise for public spending as 70 years ago.
The crown is a source of legal and political power in this country, and it puts all that power in the hands of the government. We have a highly centralized government, a parliament that’s by and large a rubber stamp for the government, and very few checks and balances. The Monarch is a puppet of the Prime Minister, rather than an independent head of state. So it’s really no good for us at all.
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