The UK Monarchy Explained
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- Опубліковано 4 вер 2024
- Queen Elizabeth II, distant cousin of her own husband, is head of state not only of the UK but many other countries. How does this fit in with the idea of meritocratic equality? Rue Britannia!
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Welcome back. We've missed you.
Truly. These are unique videos on youtube and I wish there were more of them
Dearly.
Like what I've done with the place?
Not me
Gosh, I only popped to the loo for 2 minutes!
But thanks, nevertheless. 💖
"Did he diddle the home?"
We've missed you Georg
🚨 BWEEEEEWEEEM BWEEEEEEEEEEEEM 🚨
But where will Ghislane Maxwell's inevitable suicide fit into all this?
Present Tense another suicide would be fishy even to eejits. Ghislaine will be shot en route to or from court, assassin will shoot self. They did learn one thing from LHO and Ruby.
@@nhmooytis7058 yeah...the media will say the shooter's family was screwed over by Ghislane years prior or something. Hire a black assassin and he wouldn't even have to commit suicide.
Present Tense or a female rape victim there’s a twist.
“And where is all the hemophilia coming from?”
That made me burst out laughing Georg.
The UK queen did nothing to stop Rotherham. Remember the girls of Rotherham.
wait so phillip and the queen are related?
@@givmespace If the question is "are these European Royals related" the answer is yes, it's always yes. The lot of em are all almost as inbred as pugs
@@givmespace Their family tree is a circle.
@@lizardlegend42 disgusting they should be jailed.
Everytime I see royal wedding footage I think of that South Park episode.
"And now the scraping off of the pudding. Isn't she beautiful, scraping off the pudding with the grace of a butterfly. She rubs the pudding on her face. The prince now attempting to remove one of the princess's arms. As is of course the tradition. The princess screaming with pain. Everyone watching with anticipation. And the arm is off! Things are back to normal here in Canada. Time-honored traditions are once again-yehhss, the prince is sticking the princess's arm up his ass. There it goes. He's really making a good go of it. What a glorious day for Canada, and therefore of course, the world."
I have no memory of this episode...
@Dash Star Bless you sir.
As is tradition
Quick point about the paintings/buildings/illiquid assets. The Vatican has similar artworks but lists them as being worth 1 dollar because they can never be actually sold as no one wants to go down as the pontiff who got rid of mutli-hundred years old sculptures.
i think conversely, listing their value as one dollar prevents them from being sold or stolen.
@@phoebexxlouise Eh, not so much prevents as discourages I'd say. If their sellable value is uncertain it's less attractive to unsophisticated thieves as there's no hard number to grab attention.
It's also a result of some of those works as being uninsurable as they are literally listed as priceless.
And you get into the issue most art thieves run into. The age old question of “who would buy the Mona Lisa?” Even if they did steal, say, that Mesopotamian sculpture of the fertility goddess, no sane person would ever buy it from them.
To be fair, stealing any of those artworks would make you shunned, to say the least.
If not outright beaten to a pulp.
Bring back the Plantagenets. We haven't had a war with France for a while.
Bring back Thomas Paine fuck slavery and authoritarianism fuck all your politics nigga u will never take our Freedom
Isnt the current royal family related to the Plantagenets
@@KingAgniKai I'm pretty sure all of the major european countries former monarchs were related.
@@slyseal2091 they are
Their coat of arms were far more cooler
War of the roses 2.0 when?
One day in the future, "Charles isn't a paedophile" will be printed on the new king's commemorative coronation tea towel.
@Anthony England didn't he have massive teeth?
@@hidden6ix742 Yes, but none of them were biologically his, their provenance yet remains a mystery at which we can only guess in horror.
@@zetetick395 i actually find that more disturbing than the necrophilia
I don't actually believe Charles is, Andrew on the other hand....
@@hidden6ix742 Well, I suppose at least the raped dead people are already *dead* - so they really don't mind being fiddled with at all at all.
(Such is the optimistic perspective)
...I mean, if it was MY corpse then:
10.34am Gets a strangers erection rubbed against my cold, inert body for 7 minutes.
2.17pm Get an autopsy chest-saw opening up my thorax and my internal organs roughly thrown into a butchers scales while I lay naked & leaking on a hard metal table.
I may have gained a fresh sense of perspective about the whole ' erection' thing come teatime.
I believe that the French have a solution to all of these "Royal" problems. A cutting edge solution.
off with the heads
they're on their 5th republic. removing monarchy didn't fix the turmoil its still there and always will be.
@@alexanderbarnes8991 Democracy is an ever evolving and engaging concept. England,Spain,Sweden France are all so called Democracy yet are very different, in laws and applications.
For all intent and purposes, a people that stay alert about the state of their country affairs, is a healthy one. Status quo is lethal.
@IIWII any time a government system is removed you will have a power vacuum that will result in consolidated power. ie
(Germany removes Kaiser, Reichstrag, you have an all powerful Fuhrer)
(France removes monarchy results in reign of terror and allows for an emperor Napoleon invading mainland Europe.)
(United States creates more bureaucracies and executive powers resulting in more federal powers at the expense of the states and the people)
Napoleon
"Where is all this hemophilia coming from" should be on a shirt with their genealogical tree
Genealogical wreath*
@@TheRedNaxelaUA-cam Perfect.
I would wear that. Sign me up.
* haemophilia
They fuckin they cuzins boy
Prince Andrew nailed that interview no sweat.
That's not all he nailed
Lololol
So when is Georg going to talk about Herod Agrippa?
always makes me think of the book Agrippa by William Gibson.
tad off i know but still, what what
😅😂
Only when the Reptilians finally threaten to take away his magic bubble lantern.
My mans gonna be in a "car crash" soon for that thumbnail XD
@m riggs also Malcom X..., wait a second, I'm starting to see a some pattern here, Chomsky is an anarchist and the others are more Marxist.
Nicanor Núñez or people are just dicks and kill people
Nah my money would be on Meghan Markle getting into an unfortunate accident sooner than anyone...
Yeah, I see he's been silent for a couple of weeks, is he ok?
who's in the thumbnail? I'm not British sorry
The five most important thing all in one scene. The lamp, the lava lamp, tea, Georg and most importantly of all that glorious robe.
Not sure Georg is going to be on this year's birthday honours list.
Don't worry, pizza express just went into administration anyway
Pretty sure Charles’s ties to record breaking peodo Jimmy Saville has more significance than is commonly known
“Record breaking peodo” made me laugh way too much
It is almost like pedos are good at manipulating people to get better access to their prey.
Savile never escaped prosecution due to police failing to investigate formerly lodged allegations by victims, or by a local CPS "forgetting" to forward a file to London. Former Labour MP Greville Janner escaped prosecution 3 times (one being for having abused an 8 or 9 year old boy with the notorious paeophile Frank Beck) due to suspicious 'incompetence' from the police or CPS, before he died when a "trial of the facts" had just begun, over 30 men had submitted formal complaints to the police about being abused by Janner, most of them whilst they were in children's care homes. The media, particular the Times, Telegraph, and BBC, have frequently ran propaganda pieces claiming he is a victim of false allegations by either antisemitic or money hungry liars. It's disgusting. Janner should be the default example of the elite getting away with the most hideous crimes, but most people don't know just how damning the evidence against him is.
Doesn’t every Brit have ties to Saville?
Mild Misanthrope heyyyy I’m a Brit and I’m not a nonce😔
If Ghislain Maxwell has dirt on Prince Andrew, it’ll be amusing how Windsors’ spin that one?!
She'll die in police custody long before that.
Death Cl💀ck:
Ghislaine
2 weeks
She’s a gonna
They'll just kill her like they did Epstein
Apparently she is reportedly ill... In other words, "when she dies, it'll not be suicide this time guys, we're getting better at this xDdd"
"Did he diddle the home?" Brilliant.
I just wanted to mention that the part about royal family being relatively cheap doesnt cover a lot of other costs. Like security and renovations of historical buildings that are used by royal family. The same goes for presumed indirect profits from tourism, France gets far more tourists and make much more money from them then UK and they dont have monarchs. UA-camr Shaun did a great 17 minute video that goes deeper into the topic.
Interesting.
Dude, that's cause London isn't Paris. It ain't romantic the same way Paris is. Also the food is way better pretty much anywhere in France. Without the royals and Jane Austen what would make the UK a hot tourist spot? Fish and chips? Oxford/Cambridge? France also has better chateaus and castles.
I don't mean to imply you don't have a point. I'm just saying I'll give the royals/crown jewels/royal castles a good amount of credit for tourism
@@ayameisastar
I was both in London and Paris more than once, and in my experience the food is way better in London. 😋
Also, no big city is romantic (apart from Rome maybe), they're all anonymous tourist hotspots. If you want to experience romance and friendliness, go to the countryside. 😉
@@ayameisastar Nice cope dude
Louis XIV is still the 'longest-reigning monarch in the world' clocking in at 72 years compared to Elizabeth II's 68
Longest reigning European monarch. I think there are others who reigned longer than king Louis.
good ole' Lizzy just has to make it to 2024
Hopefully the old girl last another 4 years
@@ThePresident001 Only if you count dependant states en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_longest-reigning_monarchs
@@CrashWeezerman hopefully not can't believe the british actually like her when she sold the british empire to the US LOL
9:43 "Whose Children?" 😂😂😂
Queen Elizabeth’s awful son Andrew.
'Don't think about Ireland, think about pith helmets' is one of my favourite summaries of the British attitude to their colonial past ever.
I loved that 'don't think about Ireland' and Kenya references lol Great to have you back!
Lets just replace the royals with you Georg, your name already sounds like it is royalty of dubious french-german origins
And have a wakanda style succession system
I disagree with your statement about the queen not choosing to be the queen. She makes that choice every day.
Not from her point of view. She's a devout Christian who believes God assigned her the role of Queen and to shirk that responsibility would mean defying God. Her faith is often what gets her through the most difficult challenges in her life.
I don't envy the Queen, but there are a lot of perks.
@benzo No amount of money makes the death of family or friends any easier. Or having your home burn down. Or having your children accused of crimes or dragged through media scandals. Or watching your country - the thing that you are meant to represent the very best of - gradually decline during your lifetime into global irrelevance.
@benzo Assets and power do not bring joy or peace. I am sure she has had many difficult times in her life, just different to those of common folk.
She might to be too dumb and sheltered to know she is a charlatan. It's a classic question whether a lie HAS to be intentional to be dishonest.
Maxwell didn't die of coronavirus complications.
Just getting ahead of the curve.
Robert Maxwell? No, he was just found floating around.
@@anonb4632 I meant his daughter, Ghislaine, although in my complete ignorance of Robert's death, I'm fully expecting a sordid tale of intrigue.
@@adamheywood113 You should look up his death. A lot of stuff going on. He had stolen from his employees' pension fund. He was also working for several spy agencies including MI5 and Mossad at the same time. I think it all caught up with him.
@@adamheywood113"I'm fully expecting a sordid tale of intrigue." Oh boy are you in for a treat.
Princess Alice was Queen Victoria's third child and second daughter, not the first. But yeah, it still makes the Queen and her husband third cousins.
To be fair, third cousins are barely related.
OMG it's been so long. I missed you so much. Very happy to see you back on youtube and looking well. You are, and always have been my favorite Lava Lamp. How's George?
A minute for every week of lockdown. Ok I'll take that.
We were so young and full of hope back in August 2020
The bizzare summary has always been a delight. Tied for favourite thing out of your channel with one minute to midnight.
When there's _BOTH_ the desk light and the lava lamp there, you know some serious shit's about to go down
"Your majesty, do you happen to have any spare cigarette filters?"
We're all equal, however, some, these days, evidently believe they are more equal than others. 🐷 Oink
Apparently, no respondent has read 'Animal Farm' by George Orwell.
@@sep9365 If you'd read 'Animal Farm' you would've understood the meaning of the comment, and, therefore, the point I was making.
@@ghoulinthegraveyard399 If you'd read 'Animal Farm', an allegory to the folly of socialism, you would've understood the simple meaning of the comment, and, therefore, the point I was making; I guess I was expecting a little too much.
And, frankly that's the dumbest explanation of the concept of equality I've ever heard. May God have mercy in your soul. 😔
@Forgotten You should read 'Animal Farm' by George Orwell, that book was the source of my comment.
bro youve read animal farm? the book literally everyone has read in school? poopoopeepee analogy of man you must be very smart
@@lukeparnell5572 Compared to you, I imagine so.
I've recently discovered your channel and I just wanted to tell you how much I've been enjoying your content. I really like how you analyze some of my favorite movies from the 80s and 90s I find it highly enjoyable. Thanks for all the quality content.
Not entirely true regarding the executive powers of the monarch never having been used independently since 1834. During the constitutional crisis of 1911, the King refused to accept the resignation of the Prime Minister, thus forcing him to continue in office without the support of Parliament.
The 'transition into constitutional monarchy' emphatically did *not* begin in the 19th century, but in the 17th, with the Restoration. Some might argue it began with Magna Carta.
The monarchy deposed Gough Whitlam in the seventies too.
@@anonb4632 Not quite. The Governor General John Kerr acted independently in dismissing Gough Whitlam. In fact it was the threat of having *Kerr* dismissed (as the Australian Prime Minister is entitled to demand of the Queen) that led him to act pre-emptively.
@@patavinity1262 Nope, that's the monarchy. The Governor General is the representative of the queen in the Commonwealth Countries.
@@anonb4632 No, because the representative of X is not X. The Pope is held to be the representative of God on Earth, that does not mean that he is God. If the Governor General had acted on orders from the Queen, then it would be accurate to say the monarch had dismissed him. As he acted unilaterally, it isn't.
@@patavinity1262 Kerr was in regular correspondence with the palace. Claiming he acted unilaterally is a very big call.
this guy style,taste and overall quality in video making is truly remarkable!!
You are a hero to me. I've been told to leave the UK for such criticisms, thank you bro.
George, please continue making videos. About anything, as long you make them I will watch them
Whoa, a mention of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. Rare! That's where half my family comes from.
That "executed for treason" bit got me. That it did really bummed me out.
"The empire had pros and cons. Don't think about Ireland, think about pith helmets" Lost it at that.
I'm American and, thus, have no stake in the British monarchy, but I find Princess Anne a far more compelling figure than Charles. I got to meet her when I was a teenager in the mid-1980s. My mom worked for a US company that was, at the time, part-owned by the royal family. Princess Anne came to visit, during which the company organized a large cookout; all the employees and their families were invited. We were instructed not to approach Princess Anne, that she would approach us if she wanted to interact. There were several hundred people in attendance, and my small group of school friends and I thought she'd never want to speak to a bunch of kids. So, myself and about 6-7 of my friends were just standing around talking. Princess Anne walks up and starts talking to us, but I was so awe-struck that I couldn't form a response. One of my friends answered her question, and I just stood there looking like an idiot. I remember thinking that she was so poised and elegant, the kind of poise and elegance that I could never hope to achieve, but she seemed very kind and sincerely interested.
"...and more..."
Canada: What's this aboot? Am I a joke to you hoosers, eh? I just had a holiday dontchaknow!
Whoa whoa whoa take 'er easy there, eh! Ya startin' ta sound a little miffed, donchaknow.
Might wanna take a few and have a Molson or twelve.
@@TheMetalAllfather Well Soory there bud, but dis here limey obviously didn't have his tea time because he kinda forgot we existed. Still, you wanna go out for Poutaine later or some Rick Hortons, eh?
Lard tunderin Jaysus!
@@Bluehawk2008 Fookin eh!
Tell me about it if memory serves me right she is the official head of State for Canada again Head of State not Head of Government.
Your videos are incredibly well-made and super-interesting!!
Your videos are like bathing in beans. I don't care if it happens regularly or once in the bluest of moons. It's still a cheeky thrill.
What does this even mean? I hate jerking off to your moonspeak
@@hatendiscontent with enough time, soul searching and meditation you'll come to realise that the beans were inside you all along
This is beans! This is food!!
I just found your channel in the last few weeks. I hope you keep making videos. Cheers
You're back! Hope the film is going well.
Always the most excellent channel on UA-cam. Great to see you back.
12:05 It's worth noting that the UK Royal Family's primary value is mostly rooted in landholdings that they have questionable rights and depend on the nitty gritty of how one goes about legally deconstructing the Monarchy. This is not to advocate anything but, rather, pointing out that working out a 'cost/benefit' hinges upon who gets what in the divorce and 'the people who claimed to be Divinely Chosen might have held unreasonable negotiating power and maybe shouldn't just get to keep literally everything' isn't exactly a legally untenable position.
Excellent video essay. Glad your're back.
Could someone please tell me the name of that powerfully haunting, classical, piece of music Georg played at the start of the video? Forgive my lack of culture.
Mozart's Requiem D Minor- Lacrimosa
Never be ashamed to ask that question.
Answer will always be Sandstorm by Darude
@@swissarmyknight4306 He should be ashamed to ask - the answer is in the description.
@Upsidedown Toilet Nah
Okay enough is enough. The Closing Music makes me gulliver shat endorphins all over my dopamine receptors. It takes me to a fabulous place where any and indeed EVERYTHING is not only possible but happening as well. Next to Lisa converting Homer's unintelligible noises to "Transcendental", I posit this music to "¡Mmmmatsgood!".
Discuss. SHOW YOUR WORK!
[8:25-8:55]
Just.... !!!!!MMMMMMMMMATSGOOD¡¡¡¡¡
"Diddle" Georg, *Diddle?*
You've been away from Airstrip 1 *far* too long, dear boy.
Not just outdated; a pernicious bulwark against good governance, institutional reform, and progress in general.
Enjoyed your video, Georg, as always.
Looking at the Monarchy from America I have to say I really like it and believe it to be useful. Here in America we attach almost religious reverence onto politicians. If we could divert feelings of patriotism and nation pride onto a person or a family that had no real power I think that would be a healthy thing.
That is actually a really interesting point.
We have kanye
Are you sure you're American? We only idolize politicians during election year, after their term is up, we couldn't care less about them. There's no royalty here, we have celebrities, of course, but they produce something to be worthy of their fame.
Or...You could just stop attaching religious reverence to polititians. That also works.😁
@@inframatic This aged interestingly
Welcome back georg it’s been a long wait but always worth it for your videos.
The UK benefits substantially from the monarchy because of the income on the Crown Estate. Since 1760, the net income of it has been surrendered to the British treasury, and it amounts to approximately 1.6 Billion pounds. If the U.K became a republic that would end and the Royal Family would retain that income. So it more than offsets any payments by the U.K to them. Then thrown in the tourist dollars and they're a substantial win.
So yes it is kind of weird, but it is enormously profitable to U.K citizens.
This man makes "peculiar topics of vague interest" very interesting. And this is a personal opinion but I've seen other videos treated this same topic in a preachy way but you took it serious and logical while sarcastically funny
Everything ok George!? I haven’t heard much from you in a while. Not that you’re expected to drop your golden content on a weekly basis or anything. The lack of uploads is slightly worrying, I just hope you’re well mate. It’s been a rough year. A complete stranger is sending some cyber love!! Waiting for more goodness from you when you’re well and ready!
Just found your channel and have been binging your videos for hours now. Even some of the videos I don’t think I’d enjoy normally based on the topics I find myself watching and liking, whether that’s through how you portray them or just because I enjoy your voice and face a lot. Nonetheless, I’m excited to see more content from you in the future, and I hope you’re doing well.
Hey, can you just make a statement saying you don"t intend to commit suicide.
It's easy to love these videos for the keen insights or the absolutely bone-dry wit, but the true fan keeps coming back for Georg's facial expressions.
I had to stop taking this seriously after I heard "the queen of England"...
I hope you start making the podcast again someday. I'd always listen to it while mowing my lawn.
I'd genuinely be interested in what you have to say about Herod Agrippa. About anything really.
And just to say, QE2 was a bit of a hottie back in the day.
Great red/geen color contrast!
The French and Russians both offed their royals and yet the Palace at Versailles and The Winter Palace/State Hermitage Museum each receive far more visitor per year than Windsor Castle and Buckingham Palace combined. All I'm saying is, if it's tourist dollars you want, precedent shows that your best choice is to kick the royals out and let the tourists in (I don't think the regicide is even a necessary component).
Versailles is an unequal comparison - it's grand and ostentatious - and very, very expensive. Versailles budget is over €100M per year - that's almost 3 times the amount spent on the entire UK monarchy just to keep one building tidy. Buckingham Palace is, to be honest, nothing special as a building - it's grey, dull, and the interior is bland. It brings special unique appeal though because it has a living connection to an active monarchy - it's part of a real, ongoing story. It's not just yet another dusty forgotten chateau which Europe has about 10,000 of already.
Brillaint as always Georg, love from your friends in Sheffield
@ Georg Rockall-Schmidt
You've done quite a few "How the XXXX-films changed", many of them from the 1980's. Have you considered doing one on the Karate Kid films?
Oh weird, I was just binge watching your videos earlier today. How serendipitous.
13:00 "if people are equal the monarchy doesn't make a lot of sense" but then you'll have to abolish all kind of government because people should have equal rights but for sure politicians can get away with many things the common folk cannot, and I guess that's not the point (as royalty and their court and are not legally treated the same as the plebes are) but it also makes sense to clarify that although people may have the same rights that doesn't mean all have the same roles.
This subject is way over your head apparently. Even though it isn't that complicated. Just stop commenting if you aren't even going to try.
@@eatfrenchtoast And yet you manage to post a comment about nothing, except unfounded self-aggrandizement. Congratulations.
Yay. You're Back. Don't usually comment but love your stuff
Well, she was just seventeen
You know what I mean
And the way she looked, was way beyond comparrrrreee
HE'S BACK!
And that's the Hiptang
You fail to identify the most important role that the Monarchy actually has - it safeguard our democracy and acts as a counter balance to Parliament. There is a reason why the Armed Forces swear allegiance to the Monarch and not the Government or the people. It separates power to an apolitical organisation where the leader doesn't strive for power (unlike parliament). It has contributed to a relatively stable system of Government for 100s of years. In turn the Monarch is constrained by Parliament (the people) in a very clever counterbalance.
When I was younger I was very pro-monarchy. I enjoyed the pomp and and I think it gave the country a lot of prestige and historical weight. But the older I get the less I feel that way. I think the real breaking point has been seeing William and Harry become husbands and parents, and with all the media attention on them and their families and the well-publicised conflicts I've come to the conclusion that royalty is actually pretty bad *for them*. I mean, there are a lot of constitutional and ideological points to make for or against the monarchy, but on a human level I think they and we would all be a lot happier if we just let them quietly sit things out and leave statecraft and politics to people who choose to be there at the top. At least the people we elect to rule over us clearly deserve our scorn and hatred, because only a real psychopath would ever run for office.
If you're worried about how "real psychopaths run for office" though, monarchy is actually beneficial in that respect. It's a check on ambition - even the most cynical and self-serving climber of the greasy pole has someone he can't pay off. In the monarchy you have at least one position in the state that by definition cannot be bought, by any level of corporate funding, electoral fraud or press subversion. The monarchy gives politicians a measure of humility - lots of politicians will of course tell you that they are mere "servants of the people", which is very easy to say when you're standing on a stage having a crowd of adoring followers chanting your name and singing songs after you, but rarely shakes out in practice. Being forced to say "yes your majesty" now and again reminds them that they are here to serve, not just fight for their own prestige.
@@kapparomeo I used to think that too, and in principle I think it seems reasonable, except for the fact that it doesn't appear to work. Being forced to bow has hardly appeared to be a restraining factor for any government within my lifetime. Humility is not abundant among the UK's ruling class.
@@TheMattastic To which I'd say, if you think it's bad now, look over the Atlantic and the madness their never-ending-election cycle puts them through every four years and imagine how much worse it could be. The Queen does have a levelling effect on politicians - one of her biggest fans was Harold Wilson, even though he was an Old Labour socialist he and the Queen got along really well, he always said that the Queen was the one person he could talk to in absolute confidence and honesty because the monarch was the only person who wasn't gunning for his job.
@@kapparomeo Nnnng, I'm unconvinced. The US is hardly representative of most republics. Their electoral politics is way too aggressive and reliant on big money and entertainment "news", and the president has way too much power. America's problems are mostly unique.
And I'm glad Wilson got a lot of mileage from talking to the Queen, but that was a long time ago. I mean last year Johnson lied to the Queen's face without remorse, so really it sounds like the levelling effect she has on PMs is really just distilling how much respect they have for their responsibilities of office into a relationship with one person.
@@TheMattastic "lied to the Queen's face" would be a matter of interpretation, really. A lot of those sorts of criticisms are also dishonest and made in bad faith - not saying it's the case with you, but many of the people who were acting outraged over the prorogation last year were left-wingers who normally would be only too happy to mock the Queen except when it served their interest. If you want to settle these sort of constitutional arguments you won't get them sorted out in a republic, either - a written constitution just means we'll have even more litigation over every comma of the document than we do at the moment. I don't think the America comparison is inappropriate either - if it's unfair to compare all republics to their worst examples then it's also unfair to blindly assume a change of system will always be its best and most optimistic version too.
Very refreshingly original commentary
The top three longest-reigning monarchs in the world are: Louis XIV of France, Rama IX of Thailand and Johann II of Liechtenstein. Elizabeth II is number four, Victoria tenth, George III seventeenth.
He's future proofing.
Ramses II: Am I a joke to you?
Louis and Rama had early starts. Elizabeth didn’t reign until her 20’s.
@@tisFrancesfault I don't see Victoria or George III climbing the ladder any time soon.
@@patavinity1262Well not with that attitude!
Love these vids. Nice presentation and set.
I recommend the video "Abolish the Monarchy! - A response to CGP Grey" by the youtuber shaun, who goes in depth and ecplains why "the royals make UK more money than they spend" is just a lie.
Left-wing bullshit!
Duuude, i was just thinking what happend to your videos and a notification pop up! This brings joy, indeed!
2:38 QE2 ... Queen of Australia among other things was party to the dismissal of the Australian government in a constitutional crisis in 1975
The 'Palace letters', correspondence between the Australian Governor General, Sir John Kerr and QE2, held at the Australian Archives have this year been deemed by the Australian High Court to be public, not private
What did she agree to?, Was it a fait accompli prior to her being contacted by the GG? ... All will be revealed ...
Yeah, no. Kerr made recommendations, she rubberstamped. The situation in parliament had caused deadlock and the ALP were unable to govern, the dismissal just triggered an election to break the deadlock. The electorate then did no reelect them.
It's worth pointing out a little discussed aspect of the Whitlam case. Shortly beforehand, his government had kicked some CIA spies out of Australia. The Aussies still kick out Chinese spies, but American ones are untouchable and like the UK, Australia is essentially a US satellite state. This had to be a factor.
@@anonb4632 lol source to spies being kicked out? Or is this someone else's rant that you half heard?
@@stevenobrien557 John Pilger's book "A Secret Country". You were saying? I'm sorry I can't remember chapter and verse, it's about twenty years since I last read it.
It includes photos of one of the alleged agent and also a photo of a newspaper at the time, so it was in the press there. Pilger's brother worked for Whitlam's government so he had an inside line.
By the way, if you think the CIA *doesn't* have operatives in the UK, Ireland, Australia etc, you're buttoned up the back. They don't just collect info on the enemy.
@@anonb4632 Falcon and the snowman
Excellent vid as always Georg! You’re one of the only decent youtubers left in my eyes
"People are equal"? ah but "some are more equal than others" Animal Farm.
Finally some good fucking youtube content! seriously your one of those "oh shit, drop everything" uploads!
Elizabeth is a great woman, she essentially the country's grandma. But after she dies, the monarchy's kinda done.
Let's hope so.
Nah, a few rough years of Charles then William will fix things again.
i very much enjoy these little chats
Ah, well this is an unexpected treat
That's what I said when they arrested Ghislane Maxwell
break out the HipTang!
The tourism angle doesn’t hold water, but the brand thing might, even so doesn’t mean that would disappear if the UK became a republic.
Violets are blue, the queen has a head, when you remove it, she winds up dead
Hey at least she would go out as she lived. As a Royal.
There u are brotha!!!!! Glad to see you're still alive and kickin!!!!
I mean we can say that "everyone is equal" or that we believe in meritocracy all we want; no objective look at our society would support these claims in any way. And the same is true in countries with a proud republican tradition like France or the USA. So the real choice is merely between a constitutional monarchy which wears its unjust hereditary power hierarchies on its sleeve or a liberal republic with false pretensions to equality in which these power hierarchies are hidden.
I was just about to think about tweeting, "where have you been."
We see at 2:08 the Emirates... I mean emissaries that rule Britons.
Ah! A welcomed installment from the Earl of Rockall! How are things out in the Atlantic these days? All joking aside, this truly was welcomed. I used to look forward to your regular post. Hope you will be back among the "posting" again!
There is something to be said about having someone who sits above the elected leader of the country who can box their ears and tell them to stop cocking stuff up, or yank them from power entirely if they are just going down a dark hole.
IMO, anyone with power over the people of a country should be elected (also why I don't like appointed roles). And anyone with power should have limits and oversight over them. If the PM f's up, I'm sure Parliament has a way of kicking them out.
Was rewatching your stuff just this week. Good to get you back.
P.S.: How's the film going?
in the Netherlands we have a royal family who refuses to give up their DNA to prove their ancestory.
Frankly, they look far less inbred than the country they ostensibly rule over.
A pretty gross demand don't you think?
@@tisFrancesfault rumour goes they are of Habsburg descent and not Orange
@@greenefieldmann3014 that's easy for you to say, Herr Fieldmann
@@schande well they'll likely have some Habsburg in them, they got their seed eeeeverywhere.
Your videos are impeccably Interesting! Keep it up sir ✌🏻