queen elizabeth II

I’m not making the case for her being some great and unique evil but saying that the monarchy is and was powerless is a lie used to perpetuate its existence.

Benign

Police have been barred from searching the Queen’s private estates for stolen or looted artefacts after ministers granted her a personal exemption from a law that protects the world’s cultural property, the Guardian can reveal.

Buckingham Palace and the government are refusing to say why it was deemed necessary in 2017 to give the Queen an exemption that prevents police from searching Balmoral and Sandringham.

A spokesperson for the Queen dismissed any suggestion that stolen or looted artefacts were being held on the monarch’s private estates.

His £1bn Duchy of Cornwall estate was later given special exemptions in the acts that denied residents the legal right to buy their own homes outright.

Under the opaque procedure, the Queen and Prince of Wales were allowed to vet the contents of the bills by government ministers and approve them before they were passed by parliament.

The exemptions have left residents living in homes that have diminishing or no financial value. The residents say they cannot borrow against their homes to pay, for example, for social care fees for themselves and loved ones.

Jane Giddins, who lives in one of the prince’s houses in a Somerset village, said a “feudal and anachronistic” system had unfairly favoured Charles, to her family’s detriment. “When we die, our kids will be left with a property that is very difficult to sell,” she said.

The exemptions enable the prince to preserve the financial value of his estate and brings in income as the tenants have to pay rent to him each year. The residents say they have been unable to find out why and how the heir to the throne was able to secure preferential treatment from the government.

The prince declined to comment when asked whether he or his family had lobbied the government for the exemptions in the three acts.

However, the Guardian has established that Prince Charles and his mother were allowed to approve the contents of the three acts under an arcane parliamentary process known as Queen’s consent.

The Queen successfully lobbied the government to change a draft law in order to conceal her “embarrassing” private wealth from the public, according to documents discovered by the Guardian.

A series of government memos unearthed in the National Archives reveal that Elizabeth Windsor’s private lawyer put pressure on ministers to alter proposed legislation to prevent her shareholdings from being disclosed to the public.

Following the Queen’s intervention, the government inserted a clause into the law granting itself the power to exempt companies used by “heads of state” from new transparency measures.

The arrangement, which was concocted in the 1970s, was used in effect to create a state-backed shell corporation which is understood to have placed a veil of secrecy over the Queen’s private shareholdings and investments until at least 2011.

The true scale of her wealth has never been disclosed, though it has been estimated to run into the hundreds of millions of pounds.

How others are getting treated for regulation criticism.

https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/uju-anya-s-tweet-shouldn-t-have-been-condemned-carnegie-n1298818

lol at Bezos pearl-clutching at that - another busy day for Jeff. But then of course she's a union ally.

fwiw sheltering failsons from the consequences of their crimes sexual and otherwise is also "common as dirt amongst the wealthy and powerful", if we're gonna be consistent about this.

I also don't care about the wealthy and powerful maintaining their position.

hang on WHAT?? pic.twitter.com/GX2QmBxzYE

— Russell Warfield (@russellwarfield) September 11, 2022

How others are getting treated for regulation criticism.

https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/uju-anya-s-tweet-shouldn-t-have-been-condemned-carnegie-n1298818🕸

Utterly draconian - two people were arrested on the weekend under the Police, Crime, Sentencing & Courts Act 2022 for expressing their opposition to the monarchy.

When this law was still a bill, many raised concerns that it would be used to silence free speech. They were right. pic.twitter.com/sm7EPnnSkF

— Fatima Said (@fatimazsaid) September 12, 2022

Red Nation Native American roundtable talking about the monarchy/commonwealth etc in a negative light and what has been done in its name over teh years. So why seeing so many people seeing this negative figurehead as someone to mourn so heavily is depressing
https://open.spotify.com/episode/5VqWZZn5ymYNgYYR9NLYx1?si=5c9dcaec6a184e38

I really want to check that out - thanks

This is sick. She's already dead https://t.co/y7JIRbsCuV

— ben flores redemption arc (@limitlessjest) September 11, 2022

maybe this time she'll stay dead

worms get in quicker if they have nice bullet holes to crawl through.

Proof positive lizard queen is still alive, our daughter just got a letter from her! She's 6, the school was all over the jubilee and she wanted to send a card to the queen, we weren't going to dissuade her; a thank you card with her maj's dead face on it arrived this morning.

not her dead face surely?

clearly some type of lament configuration deal going on here, don't fall for it

Did the letter read: "Help me! I am being eternally devoured by rabid corgis!"

https://i.imgur.com/Efzv2OD.gif

It read "Help me! I am in search of a new body to resurrect in to"...

awkward

🙄

On #BBCBreakfast Sally reveals the Royal Parks are asking that people don't leave any more Paddington Bears or marmalade sandwicheshttps://t.co/LnaLUb84yw pic.twitter.com/peTh8Osaul

— BBC Breakfast (@BBCBreakfast) September 12, 2022

Hounslow pic.twitter.com/tnHmUGakHE

— Nev Wilson (@NevWilson) September 12, 2022

sharpen the contradictions: ever more marmalade in the parks, the only king i recognise is king rat

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1f/Rat_King_Illustration.svg/1200px-Rat_King_Illustration.svg.png

Sharpening the contradictions

I'm struggling to believe the intro I have just written to a story but it's true..

"Morrisons supermarket has turned off the beeps at its checkouts in a mark of respect to the Queen."

🤯

— Andrew Ellson (@andrewellson) September 12, 2022

I can't remember who was telling me that this has resulted in massive queues in the self-scan sections as nobody can tell what they have and haven't scanned, RIP

some

good queueing practice, for those that fancied getting a sight of the mouldering corpse, lying in a state

Football is going ahead this weekend as a mark of respect for her majesty the queen!

When I die, please don't bring a 'Great Job!' balloon to my wake pic.twitter.com/1y2tHAjXG7

— Aisling Marron (@aislingmarron) September 11, 2022

Ok

perhaps the most unprovoked self snitching i've ever seen on here pic.twitter.com/4AHgChYjUX

— pez says up the workers (@periuspb) September 13, 2022

oh god help me i can't stop hearing "am I paedo too?" to the tune of "Dreamer"

He was not found guilty but charged with having sex with a seventeen-year-old, god I'm guilty of that, am I a pedo?… https://t.co/oO6xi7d1Rh

— John Healey (@JohnColonelputt) September 12, 2022

If that isn’t a textbook example of fucking around and finding out…

did QAnon post at all since she died? I'm not saying she was trolling the colonies but what if the Q stood for Queen and it was her all along? :D

A lot of Q accounts now tweet only in Russian

has the worldwide drug trade stopped yet? or will it take a week or so?

a: she died ("died") on lyndon larouche's birthday 🤔
b: both died ("died") at the age of 96 🧐

@Leanne61639007 Hello Leanne, if you are staying with us for 7 nights starting Friday you are welcome to leave your belongings in your lodge and access your accommodation again from 10:00am Tuesday.
Thanks, Demi

— Center Parcs UK (@CenterParcsUK) September 13, 2022

even the foodbanks are closing, some wag posted "let them eat wake"

Rocking up to the queen’s funeral with a large nachos and mixed tango ice blast https://t.co/IkMobNsvBb

— hannah strong (@thethirdhan) September 13, 2022

Fin du cinema

In celebration of The Queen's life, the BBC has said that it will air Paddington and Paddington 2.

The first film will air on BBC One this Saturday and the second on Monday, the day of The Queen's funeral.

— Scott Bryan (@scottygb) September 13, 2022

Weird times and all but this connection between Paddington and The Queen is so so bizarre..

"@Mark_Cassell: Hahaha!
"@HannahKincade: I love Paddington bear, but the new cgi Paddington is some scary ass shit. pic.twitter.com/jqX8BpW5RJ""

— The Dead Can Write (@TheDeadCanWrite) September 28, 2014

i'm thinking somebody reasonably smart noticed at some point that the Paddington movies played very well with cupcake fascists - nb this isn't strictly the movies's fault - and figured it was a good brand to associate the monarchy with

also something something 2012 Olympics i'm sure

I guess.

Meanwhile..

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/sep/13/king-charles-staff-given-redundancy-notice-during-church-service-for-queen

They were just a starter staff

thread for KING CHARLES III (regnal name george vii)

Paddington not even a British subject ffs

Paddington being a royalist has been canon since this 1986 book

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51ADlI0llkL._SX486_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg

'Rolling Stone' reports that Kanye West has decided to settle all outstanding beefs following the death of Queen Elizabeth II.

wife's breast cancer appointment cancelled Monday, which means all breast cancer appointments are cancelled on Monday. She has a new one in a month. I'm sure she'll be fine, but that's a wait that will almost certainly cost lives. This is an obscenity, in the name of the monarchy

— matt (@matted1) September 13, 2022