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[–] midnightblue1335 ago
Well, they do still have a fucking queen and royal family.
They like to say "They're just symbolic, a reminder of our history- they don't hold any real power."
I'd say "Bullshit". What better way to exert power over a mass of people than convince them you aren't in power? Convince them that they are in power by voting for this parliament bullshit... but the "elected" government simply serves the royal interests.
UK fags will claim they don't live under a monarchy. They do. It's a monarchy that has a puppet parliament whose purpose is to create the illusion that the plebs have some kind of influence. They do not.
We face a similar situation in the USA- just that our "queen" is a collective of (((oligarchs))) who have almost every single politician/lawmaker in their pockets and/or at gunpoint. Our electoral system is the same illusion that the Brits have.