Author: Cuckoo
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In the midst of the political turmoil in Britain, an egg flying towards the King of England reveals an unusual atmosphere. British aristocracy is facing challenges, national protests are constant, and the British Labour Party is ready to open fire on the aristocratic parliament again, and Britain's traditional power structure may face disintegration. It was not only the eggs that smashed at Charles, but also the people's frontal provocation against the constitutional monarchy and the aristocracy.
On November 9, 2022 local time, when King Charles III and his wife visited York, England, they were suddenly attacked by protesters throwing eggs, and the protester has been controlled by the police. The protester was allegedly a man who threw several eggs at Charles III and shouted the slogan "Britain was built on the blood of slaves". But none of the eggs he threw hit the target. The man was then controlled by security personnel at the scene. This is one of the few events in British history to directly attack the king, and although it looks more like a farce that makes people laugh, an incident that happened not long ago made the British aristocracy laugh. Taken together, these events confirm one thing, a situation that disturbs British politics, and that is that the current traditional British system of rule, the parliamentary system ruled by the high royal family and aristocracy, is facing disintegration.
For a long time, the British system of rule was considered very strong. To the anthem of "God Bless My King", the British people seem to have an unwavering belief that their royal family can lead them forward. But since the death of Queen Elizabeth, the status of the British royal family has become delicate. The new King Charles III of England did not have the same prestige as Queen Elizabeth, and a series of previous scandals in the British royal family had also damaged the image of Charles III considerably. So although the visit of Charles III was part of their pro-people activities, they were still attacked. Although not a serious crime, the attacker's use of eggs instead of a pistol meant he was trying to humiliate the royal family rather than assassinate him. But the emergence of this situation itself represents that the prestige of the British royal family has been greatly weakened in the hearts of the people. To make matters worse, with Elizabeth's trend, Commonwealth countries are increasingly alienated from Britain. For example, parliamentarians in the Canadian province of Quebec refused to pledge allegiance to Charles III when they entered the British Parliament to take the oath. They all say Queen Elizabeth is dead and the British crown should no longer lead Canada. And this sentence is also the voice of many Commonwealth countries and other countries that have been loyal to Britain, which means that the international status of the British royal family is becoming more and more precarious. The crisis of the royal family naturally does not exist in isolation, and the accompanying crisis in the British Parliament has also made British politics more turbulent.
Britain's long-standing two-house parliamentary system has brought long-term stability to Britain, but it has also solidified British society. According to the British themselves, over the past eight hundred years, Britain has undergone major changes such as religious wars, revolutions, industrial revolutions, the implementation of democracy and the welfare state, but there has not been much change between the upper and lower middle classes of Britain. The Norman surnames "Darcy", "Montgomery", "Pech", "Mandeway", etc., who followed William II to England, are still frequent visitors to Oxford and Cambridge or the fields of law, medicine and politics after twenty-seven generations. The House of Lords, also known as the House of Lords, has 730 unelected members, including two archbishops and 24 cardinals (known as 'priesthood') and 706 nobles ('secular').
On 5 November 1999, Britain passed the Labour government's "most radical" House of Lords reform bill of the century, i.e. the abolition of most aristocratic privileges in the House of Lords. More than 600 noble councillors had their privileges revoked and only 92 members retained hereditary rights. But the House of Lords aristocracy, with its intricate connections, still maintained considerable influence in British politics, leaving the Labour Party, which had dealt the House of Lords hard, still dissatisfied, and they were planning to further weaken the House of Lords. According to a previous exclusive report by the British "Guardian", according to a leaked report from within the Labour Party, the British Labour leadership is studying whether if they can win the next general election, then they will simply abolish the House of Lords, led by the aristocracy, and replace it with a House of Lords composed of representatives of regions and political entities such as Scotland and Northern Ireland.
The report also recommends greater oversight of the central government and parliament, the formation of a jury of ordinary citizens (elected by voting) and a new Integrity and Ethics Committee through which it can rule on complaints against MPs and ministers. If this plan is passed, it will mean a very heavy blow to the entire British aristocracy, who will not only lose their traditional political rights, but may even be "swept away". Even some of those who can be retained have their rights subject to various restrictions, which is a blow to the fallen British aristocracy.
The reason why the Labour Party is so persistent in dismantling Britain's aristocracy is, in the final analysis, because they are not all the way at all. The Labour Party is more from the British side, and they have long been unhappy with the House of Lords, which does not work much but spends a lot of money to support. And the British House of Commons is closely related to them, and the royal family is one of the symbols of Britain and cannot be moved, so once the Labour Party forms a cabinet, it always wants to take the aristocrats of the House of Lords. They had used the knife of the House of Lords before, and this time before they came to power, they wanted to take the House of Lords and open the knife again. And it is also good for them to attack the House of Lords, for example, in their reform plan, the use of local representatives to form the House of Lords means that their political power will be strengthened, which will naturally be of great benefit to them. Moreover, the old British aristocracy did not have many means to resist, which made the Labour Party feel that these soft persimmons were easy to handle, so they wanted to drive these old aristocrats out of parliament. And the Labour Party's approach has another purpose, which is to appease the "anti-thieves" in the independent areas in this way. If you can introduce these local forces into the British ruling system at the expense of the old aristocracy, give them some political benefits, or buy them. Reduce their willingness to be independent. So since the House of Commons cannot move, then it is a reasonable choice to open the door to the House of Lords again. Of course, if this approach succeeds, it means that Britain's aristocratic parliamentarians will face the danger of disappearing completely.
And Labour's "sharpening of knives" on the British House of Representatives is not limited to this. Staffer, the current leader of the Labour Party, said that the party had made a great reform in the late 90s (the one that Blair introduced to the House of Lords in 1999) and that it was now their generation's turn to "show its skills" and that this reform would be bolder than before. Once this "bold" reform is realized, it will obviously cause a huge subversion to the strength of the Conservative Party and even the "royalists", and further and even inevitably shake the British constitutional monarchy.
Much of the chaos in British politics stems from sluggish economic growth, which in turn will lead to political troubles. In order to solve these problems, the Conservative Party's approach is to change the soup without changing the medicine, constantly changing the policy to try to solve the problem, but with little success. The Labour Party is eager to overthrow the aristocracy in the House of Lords and give Britain a "new world". Now, if the British aristocracy cannot defeat the Labour Party in the next general election, then they are really in danger of complete collapse, and this time, even the British royal family is also in danger, and these eggs that smash Charles, and the slogan "Britain is built on the blood of slaves" are revealing the potential change in the attitude of the British people towards the royal family.