'a bankrupt and stunted nation'....yes i 'know' the references here....bankers' offspring and the 'stunted' genes - resulting from royal genome project 'experimentation':


T. Hughes
March 19th, 2011 at 11:38 pm
“We are suffocating in our own fiction and part of that is that a certain class, at the pinnacle are the Windsors, are so special that no one else can even aspire to that status. The most gifted, the hardest working, inspired ordinary member of the public still falls far short of a family of conspicuous mediocrities.
There is a vast energy locked up in the nonsense of the class system, we are repressed by the fiction that status takes its bearings from this family. Time to breathe free air, time to look to merit, time for a republic.”
That was an exceptionally good reply to my post. We are all suffocating in the fiction of this present British society we live in, and no, it seems that no matter how talented any ordinary person is, they can’t represent us on a national scale or global scale without being some aristocrat or royal, and frankly its nonsense from start to finish. If aristocrats and royals were so good at running things, we would have the best society in the world; is anyone under any illusion or delusion that somehow Britain leads the world anymore, or that we have moral superiority? We are at best a bankrupt and stunted nation, trying to hang onto an imperial past that does not bear even the slightest scrutiny, run by far too powerful, unnaccountable and totally out of touch elites running Britain like some private gentlemens club.
We are told, or it is inferred in many ways, that the system in Britain, is a natural one, the way things are meant and should be; but in reality this system is carefully manufactured and packaged and sold to us all, that some are meant to be rich, powerful and rule without question or challenge, and many others are by default excluded from this and kept out of a better life. To get the top, you have to be as ruthless, devious and a master of chicanery and double-speak seemingly like most of the people at the top. This also needs challenging. The idea of a republic is far more than just about electing a head of state, it is about issues of fairness, tolerance, justice, equality, the rights of all citizens as opposed to just a small family at the top, and many many other things.
I don’t see any reason why any truly thinking or intelligent person should not challenge the vile bigotry and prejudice that lies at the heart of so much British life, and that is spewed into the system we all have to live under, like poison from a factory infecting rivers. We need change here desperately and perhaps slowly the tide is turning. What have we got to lose?