and as far as i can remember, TOMLINSON penned this one...yes a lot of these comments were put onto the 'timer system' to be released later on - years later on, as far as i know:

david200March 17th, 2011 at 12:08 am
Inheritance of public office is immoral……
Tomorrow, 17th March, is the 362nd anniversary of the passing of an Act of Parliament which ran as follows:
“17 MARCH 1649
‘That the Office of a King, in this nation, is unnecessary, burthensome, and dangerous to the liberty, safety, and public interest of the people of this nation; and therefore ought to be abolished’”.
Agreed, this was passed just three weeks after same Parliament had removed the head of the king, so perhaps the mood in the house was still anti-monarchy. The Act was repealed some 11 years later, amid all the finery, outlandish expense, and bowing and scraping that accompanied (and still does to a large extent) the offering of the Office of King to Charles Stuart 2.
Point being, in the 11 years that we had the chance to govern our republic we cocked it up, gave it up and let the palace people back in to whoop it up again – and they’re still doing it.
We can discuss this until we are blue in the face. The Republican movement will make no progress until the press, the opposition parties and the people demand that the royal family be made subject to the Freedom of Information Act. Only when we can demand to see how much public money is spent on, say, bodyguards for Andrew’s daughters who are clubbing in the early hours, and why such funds are made available in the first place, will the royal minders start to realise that the game is up.
The Office of King is just as redundant in 2011 as it was in 1649 – and that redundancy should trickle down through all the family tree. Eventually their accounts would have to be balanced. If indeed it can be shown that they do go out and win export orders and bring an income stream into the UK, as lots of people tell us that they do, then let’s see the accounts balanced. What they cost us against what they bring in for us. If they make a profit – pay them a salary. If not, then out they go and we employ someone else to do UK Plc. We need politicians with some guts who can play hard ball with entrenched senior civil servants who see the status quo as the holy grail. The mandarins who desperately want absolutely nothing to change (well, not before they get their KBE and go fishing)will wheel out centuries of tradition and the politicians will want a smooth running department – which the mandarins control. Status quo.
We’ve got to crack that nut. But before I go, all hail the people of Hull who, not for the first time, and not for the last, have demonstrated their true spirit. NOT ONE application to the Council for permission to have a street party on the Wedding Day!!
FANTASTIC YORKIES !!