Abolish The Monarchy | Downstream
Channel: Novara Media
Date: 2021-03-09

Will Harry and Meghan bring down the monarchy? 

Ash Sarkar is joined by gal dem political editor Moya Lothian-Mclean and Novara Media's very own James Butler to discuss how we ended up with a family of dysfunctional aristocrats at the very top of British society, why republicanism is still so marginal, and the collision course between celebrity culture and 1200 years of feudalism.

00:00 - Introduction
2:50 - How did end up with our monarchy?
11:10 - What is the royal family today?
14:00 - Internal family dynamics and national crisis.
19:10 - Less family, more dynasty.
22:00 - Posh peoples misery, eugenics and boarding school abuse factories.
31:20 - Manufactured consent and the thiccness of Pippa Middleton.
35:00 - The ruling class in Britain vs the ruling class in America.
42:00 - Is this a radicalising moment for republicanism?
47:20 - Labour leaders, republicanism and our one party state.
51:00 - Britain basically isn't a democracy.
54:00 - Piers Morgan's departure from GMB 🙄

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