A Fascist Régime — God Save The Queen

As most of the UK builds up to so many street parties to celebrate the 70 years reign of Queen Elizabeth and a ‘generous’ extra-statutory day off, which of course businesses will have to pay for, and the State will receive tax revenues from that day’s holiday pay, we are all supposed to doff our caps, tug our forelocks, take the knee, and curtsy in gratitude. Forgive me if I don’t join in.
I’ll take any holidays they deign to give me, and I’ll sulk a little and sit in the corner of my local bar, but I won’t be joining in celebrating the existence of the monarchy in my country. It is all part of the establishment plot that is designed to make us plebs know our place in society.

I deliberately turned that headline around from the lyrics of the old Sex Pistols hit and send-up, I quote “God Save The Queen, a fascist regime.” We are at this moment in the grip of a near fascist government run by a lying Prime Minister, proven by his being the first Prime Minister to be handed a criminal fine whilst in public office, and overseeing his own office staff having parties during a lockdown, that he and his cronies wrote the law about.
This monarch reigns over a government that is illegally attempting to send immigrants found to have crossed the channel in rubber dinghies to Rwanda, thereby bringing back the transportation of minor offenders to a penal colony. The same minister responsible for that policy has also just brought in another bill to ban ‘noisy’ demonstrations and is seeking to go further by removing the Human Rights Act and our access to the European Court of Justice, an institution that the UK was instrumental in bringing about. Yet this Queen that we are all supposed to respect and ‘kowtow’ to when anyone is presented to her, does absolutely nothing, or even comments about.
I know that protocol dictates that she cannot comment on political issues, but the fact that they laud her when she or her representative reads out government policy at the opening of parliament just goes to prove that she is being used as a symbol of our repression.
She would get more respect from me right now if she did make some show of defiance and actually criticize a Prime Minister who was “on the piss” the night before she interred her husband and sent another minister to lie to her when he attempted to prorogue parliament to push his Brexit deal through.
All of this celebration proves to me how this country is going backward, looking into the past and looking up its own arse. The government rhetoric of anti-immigrant, anti-Europe, claiming some greatness from its imperialist past is now claiming to be leading the help given to the Ukrainians against a Russia whose money they have been happily sticking into their own MP’s pockets, you couldn’t make it up!
On the night of the celebrations my Essex village, in a true blue, Tory and Royalist heartland is having a fifteen-minute fireworks display on the playing field behind my garden. I’ll do my own noisy demonstration just before by taking my ‘Bose’ speakers outside and playing that Sex Pistols version of God Save The Queen, a much better one than the original turgid anthem.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqrAPOZxgzU
Lyrics
God save the Queen A fascist regime They made you a moron Potential H-bomb
God save the Queen She ain’t no human being There is no future In England’s dreaming
Don’t be told about what you want Don’t be told about what you need No future, no future, no future for you
God save the Queen We mean it, man We love our Queen God saves
God save the Queen Tourists are money But our figurehead Is not what she seems
God save history God save your mad parade Oh Lord, have mercy! All crimes are paid
When there’s no future, how can there be sin? We’re the flowers in the dustbin We’re the poison in the human machine We’re the future, we’re the future
God save the Queen We mean it, man We love our Queen God saves
God save the Queen We mean it, man We love our Queen God saves
No future, no future No future, no future No future, no future No future, no future
No future, no future No future, no future No future for you
