What does Prince Andrew need to do with political economic system? Quite a bit.

On this video I clarify how royal privilege reveals the deeper buildings of inequality that run by means of Britain’s politics and economic system.

When the highly effective resolve their very own punishment, democracy fails.

This isn’t about vengeance — it is concerning the rule of regulation, equity, and whether or not energy in Britain ever solutions to the individuals.

That is the transcript:

What has Prince Andrew obtained to do with political economic system, which is, in spite of everything, what this channel is all about? My reply is a really nice deal certainly.

Political economic system is about how privilege and energy are used to keep away from accountability when reallocating sources inside society to profit those that are possessed of that privilege and energy.  And if royals aren’t possessed of privilege and energy, then they’re possessed of nothing in any respect as a result of that’s what the entire level of their existence is, at the very least it appears so far as they’re involved.

Now we all know that Prince Andrew has been disgraced. I do know he denies all the fees in opposition to him. And for the sake of the file, I’ll file that reality. However he has already paid a  £12 million settlement with out accepting legal responsibility for his actions, and he has misplaced his Royal Highness title.

Now, he has chosen, supposedly, voluntarily, along with his arm being, I think, twisted very closely behind his again, to surrender his titles, together with the Duke of York and others in Scotland and Eire.

However he has nonetheless obtained the title Prince Andrew, as of proper, and the opposite titles haven’t been taken away. He has simply been given the choice of claiming he has voluntarily agreed to not use them, and I do not suppose that that is ok.

He is retaining privilege by deciding voluntarily what sanctions needs to be utilized to him. And he is preserving the ability by retaining the proper to model himself as Prince Andrew and eighth in line to the throne. And as a consequence, he and the entire of the royal household are failing to just accept their accountability for his or her duty to uphold the rule of regulation and, frankly, democratic society on this nation when Prince Andrew’s brother is, in spite of everything, our head of state.

Britain claims to be a democracy dominated by regulation, and but what is occurring right here appears to recommend that some are someway past the attain of that regulation.  If privilege shields these with energy from the implications of their motion, then justice collapses.

The monarchy can’t be exempt from the requirements we count on of everybody else.

Hereditary energy is especially pernicious on this sense. It’s embedded energy inside the framework of political economic system. And it helps outline the entire nature of inequality in Britain,  saying that some are destined to be rich, highly effective, wealthy, and to lord it over everybody else, and others are destined to not be in that scenario.

It’s eugenic by its very nature, and I discover that complete thought totally incorrect. There may be nothing inside our DNA that does ever predict that we needs to be highly effective or we needs to be weak. What we have are cultures that predestine, very largely, some individuals to these positions, and Prince Andrew was merely predestined by advantage of his start to the Queen to be within the scenario he is in. However  when his elite standing is protected, it legitimises inequality for everybody else.

Privilege breeds the thought of impunity. And if there’s one factor  that Prince Andrew now represents, it is that concept that he acted with obvious impunity and with none consciousness that he could possibly be held accountable for what he did, and that corrodes democracy.

So what ought to occur now? Fairly merely, parliament ought to legislate to take away all of Andrew Windsor’s remaining titles. He needs to be diminished to being a commoner, in different phrases. He has no privilege left to him due to what he has achieved. Accountability should apply to the royals as a lot because it does to everybody else.

And this has nothing to do with vengeance.  It is a declaration that nobody is above the regulation, and that the rule of regulation means guidelines for all. This isn’t about one man. It isn’t about Prince Andrew as such, though he is clearly the topic of this explicit video. It is about whether or not Britain’s economic system and politics stay structured to guard privilege or are as a substitute reorganised to ship equity and justice, which is what we require and which should begin on the high whether it is to be obtainable to everybody else as properly.

Democracy solely survives when energy solutions to the individuals, and Prince Andrew, Andrew Windsor, will not be doing that.  And the one approach he might be diminished to the extent of anybody else and be proven that he’s accountable as everybody else is, is by lowering him to the standing of a commoner, which is all that he deserves.

So what do you suppose? Do you suppose Prince Andrew ought to maintain his titles, even when he does not use them? Do you suppose he needs to be stripped of them? Do you suppose it does not matter in any respect? Do you suppose there are higher issues for us to be frightened about? Or do you suppose that that is elementary to the character of our democracy?

There is a ballot down beneath. Tell us what you suppose.

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