OPPORTUNISTIC pro-republicans have completely misread the public mood, demanding Australia break ties with the monarchy at a time when support for Queen Elizabeth is surging.
In the wake of a nasty tell-all interview with two of the world’s most privileged “victims”, Australia’s anti-monarchist politicians scrambled to cash-in after the royal family was called racist and mean.
- Anti-monarchists have scrambled to cash-in after the royal family was called racist & mean.
- Yet support for Queen Elizabeth has soared in the wake of the name-calling.
- Meanwhile, pro-republican sentiment in Australia has plummeted to new lows.
Instead, the Queen’s popularity sky-rocketed.
Only 21 per cent of UK adults believed this week’s Meghan Markle/Prince Harry interview was “appropriate”.
Public support for the so-called “under-siege” Queen Elizabeth was overwhelming with 79 per cent of Brits siding with her post interview, according a JL Partners poll.
In Australia, meanwhile, the monarchy’s popularity continues at near record levels with support for a republic plummeting to just 34 per cent – compared to 57 per cent in the lead-up to 1999’s failed republic referendum.
IDENTITY POLITICS
Worryingly for Australia’s pro-republican politicians, only 26 per cent of 18–24-year-olds want to scrap the constitutional monarchy, according to a January 2021 IPSOS poll.
Many pro-republicans – who tend to embrace the Left’s radical brand of identity politics – were overjoyed when the tanned skinned Duchess of Sussex used the words “racist” and “royal” in the same breath.
The Oprah Winfrey interview was aired in Australia on Monday to an audience of about 1.8m viewers.
With Prince Harry clutching at her hand, Meghan used the two-hour royal hit-job to pour scorn on his family.
She claimed she was denied help after becoming suicidal, that there’d been a conspiracy to deny her “mixed race” child a royal title and that there had been “official” speculation regarding the skin colour of unborn Archie.
She failed to mention, however, if other normal “baby shower chit chat” had occurred – such as speculation on eye and hair colour or which parent the newborn may resemble.
SHALLOWNESS
The emotional shallowness of the interview didn’t, however, prevent Australia’s Leftist republicans from rapturously leaping in.
“Modern” Liberal backbencher Jason Falinski said the monarchy’s role in Australia had been diminished.
“It reminds Australians that this is a British institution which no longer plays as big a role in our national life as it used to,” he said.
Mr Falinski chairs the parliamentary friendship group for an Australian republic.
He was joined by troubled Federal Greens senator Mehreen Faruqi who accused the royal family of presiding “over an empire that has enslaved millions of black and brown people”.
“Queen Elizabeth needs to give back all the money and culture her family stole … with interest and reparations,” she wrote on social media.
Meanwhile, NSW One Nation Leader and self-proclaimed republican Mark Latham attempted to add some perspective.
“As for Mehreen Faruqi, this is British derangement syndrome,” Mr Latham told Sky News anchor Peta Credlin.
“You have to admire the Queen for the leadership she has given her nation and the leadership she has given her family – where she has had to deal with some pretty whacky characters.”
Mr Latham signaled out the Duke and Duchess of Sussex and the Prince of Wales for special mention.
“The Queen must look askance at how Meghan and Harry and even Prince Charles have gone woke, lecturing us from their mansions about inequality and how the world is about to end from climate change – while they have big carbon footprints themselves.
LOW ORDER ISSUE
“I think we need to calm down. I see [NSW environment minister] Matt Kean beating the republican drum saying ‘Australia should get out of the royal set-up just as Harry has’.
“Most Australians recognise that the question of a republic is a very low order issue.
“They also recognise the Royal Family made a mistake when they invited Meghan Markle in. They didn’t need Hollywood celebrity woke culture to tamper with their institution and they’re paying a pretty heavy price for that,” Mr Latham said.
Australians for Constitutional Monarchy national convener David Flint said the interview would play no serious part in the debate to change the nation’s constitution.PC
How can anyone outside the Royal family and perhaps the royal household, know whether what she said was true or not and even if it was true we don’t know the context in which it was spoken.
The truth means nothing to the anti conservative, anti freedom of thought and speech rabble, already the lunatic left have trial by media strongly entrenched in Australia, regardless of the rule of law. This is a very dangerous time to be a person with conservative views and a believer in democracy.
Perhaps if the Woke paused their self indulgent whinge for a bit and focused on being grateful for what they do have, they might find happiness will follow. Megan Markle and Harry Wales as icons of the downtrodden and abused is one pretty sick “joke”.
The real issue is that the public is so stupid as to think that allegations are equivalent proof that’s not to be questioned. You’re labelled a denier if you question them, and we all know what happens under mob rule when someone is branded a denier.
Young people have lost the ability – assuming they ever had it – to assess claims critically and to evaluate evidence. For them it’s all about “belief” and never a matter of evidence.
It’s no wonder that so many people believe that man-made warming is a threat.