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June 3rd, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda The comment comes as anti-monarchy campaign groups in Britain are to stage protests against the British Queen’s Diamond Jubilee celebrations during the extended Jubilee weekend.
The leading anti-monarchy campaign group in Britain, Republic, has announced plans for two major protests against “the hereditary system” in Britain which they consider as offensive to all “democratic values.”
The first protest, which has been described as the “biggest republican protest in living memory” is to be staged on Sunday June 3 at 1:30 pm near City Hall.
The June 3 protest is organized so that the demonstrators will be in full view of the Queen and her family as they disembark the lead boat in the Queen’s Jubilee Thames Flotilla, expected to travel down the Thames in London.
The other protest is scheduled to be staged on Tuesday June 5 outside St Paul’s Cathedral as the Queen arrives for Jubilee celebrations and again later on that day in the Whitehall on the route of the royal procession from parliament to the palace.
Press TV has conducted an interview with director of the Lyceum, Adrian Thurston, to further discuss the issue. The following is a rough transcription of the interview.
Press TV: Mr. Thurston, how democratic is a type of government where the ruler inherits the power from birth?
Thurston: Well, it’s not very democratic at all, is it? It’s an archaic system of rule which went out with the arc but no one really has been able to remove the monarch or the system of privilege which the monarch imbues in this country.
Press TV: The ruling monarch in Britain is not an elected official. How do you think this may affect the decision making process and the accountability for the decisions that the queen or the king makes?
Thurston: Well, the king or the queen isn’t accountable. They make their own decisions and they have friends and relatives and extended family and financial acquaintances throughout the world and they put a tremendous amount of pressure on the business community in England and this has nothing to do with the government at all.
Press TV: And in terms of the costs that this is going to bring to the taxpayers in essence, estimates vary, 200 million pounds plus obviously austerity measures and also the fact that the UK is in recession. How does that reflect? What kind of sentiment does that bring out from people there?
Thurston: Well, first of all I think the celebrations and the promotions are above 1 billion pounds not 200 million and the British media have been imposing and promoting and propagating this idea that everybody loves the monarchy and everybody loves the old queen and it’s completely false. I think that if there were a referendum tomorrow, I’m not sure that the monarchy would still be after the referendum.
Press TV: And if you were to take a poll across Britain do you think that Britain has fared well under the queen?
Thurston: Well, I think up until the Second World War Britain had fared well but after the Second World War, I don’t really see that there was any real imperative for a monarchy. The whole system changed after World War II and we had more austerity than prosperity and the monarchy is really for a prosperous nation and a prosperous empire.
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