If the monarchy can have the royal crest removed from Harrods, they can have the HMP removed from British jails. Being the head of the British state means the royal family is identical with it (albeit in some qualified fashion). They’re complicit and share responsibility. They certainly reap the material benefits.
They can, of course, intervene in matters they choose to. And they often do, using media savvy to bamboozal the proles: The Queen herself celebrated Scotland’s decision to remain part of the union—we know through an ‘indiscretion. And Charles recently ‘let slip’ his feelings on the government’s appalling and cowardly Rwanda ambitions for refugees (the government is apparently now having a ‘rethink’). But hardened gangsters in Manchester pubs recognised that as a new low.
If there was a referendum on the monarchy tomorrow, they would of course win it. And if it was in two years time, wherein there would be time for the dots to be joined with the manifold of nodes of corruption and cruelty (both modern and historical) I suspect they’d win by a narrow margin—but be fatally holed (through the exposure) beneath the waterline.
The population of the North West of England, with its high density of Irish, Caribbean, Pakistani and Bangladeshi descendants, would naturally favour a republic.
Nothing to fear? Then bring the discussion on. The oxymoron of democracy with a shielded and secure monarchy is a national embarrassment. Particularly when its representatives famously rush to rub shoulders with the most undesirable individuals, and despotic regimes, on the planet.
As a beginning they might do well to apologise to the population of Ireland who provided ready target practice prior to the British occupation of the Americas. They might follow by saying sorry for giving the royal seal of approval given to the catastrophic lie of ‘the famine’, which remains beyond even the reach of the complicit ‘woke’ brigade in its ongoing propagation in UK schools. The Monarchy enjoyed the ‘fruits’ of the famine’s policy of syphoning the abundance of produce from Ireland, whilst blaming mass starvation on potato blight. Nice. But the thing is, even with the Soviet style censorship, shit like that will stain British royalty forever. And in the context of a referendum, I might just stick it on a pamphlet.