The Monarchy: Running Out of Time?
The Owen Jones Podcast
Owen Jones
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🗓️ 12 September 2022
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
The death of Britain’s longest reigning monarch is a cause of sadness for millions. But as a new unelected head of state assumes his role, now is exactly the time to debate the monarchy. Millions support having an elected head of state - but the media largely silences their voices - and even for many who support the monarchy, the passion is no longer there. Among younger voters, more support a republic and not. Is the monarchy running out of time?
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, hello, hello, and welcome to the show. So, kind of a bit of an internal discussion |
| 0:15.4 | with myself about whether it was worth doing this. I think it would be slightly remiss given. |
| 0:20.4 | We do show every Sunday not to talk about obviously the main event of the week, which is |
| 0:23.9 | of course the death of Britain's longest reigning monarch, Queen Elizabeth II, is it worth |
| 0:29.9 | the increasing death rates to talk about this? Obviously we are going to talk about it, |
| 0:34.8 | and the reason we're going to talk about it is because a new unelected head of state |
| 0:38.2 | has assumed office, obviously you and I and any other British citizen, or indeed subject, |
| 0:44.1 | which is of course what we are. We've got no say over that of any description whatsoever. |
| 0:50.3 | I just kind of feel if you're going to have again a head of state, the symbol of this country, |
| 0:55.2 | and also actually not just of this country, but Australia or Canada wherever, without any |
| 1:00.0 | discussion that by itself obviously is not entirely democratic. Now, I think lots of people would |
| 1:05.7 | say, well look, this isn't the right time. Lots of people are in mourning. Millions of people |
| 1:10.1 | are obviously very sad about the death of Queen Elizabeth II, and I have nothing but respect, |
| 1:14.7 | of course, for their grief and for their mourning. But there are millions of people in this |
| 1:19.0 | country do believe in an elected head of state, and those who say it's not the time, well, |
| 1:23.6 | it never seems to be the right time to discuss the future of the monarchy. And of course, |
| 1:29.0 | for those of us who are Republicans who believe in an elected head of state, it's nothing personal. |
| 1:33.2 | I have nothing, obviously, against the Queen. I didn't know the Queen personally, but lots of |
| 1:37.9 | people had huge amounts of affection, of course, and respect for her. Now, I do think it's not that |
| 1:43.4 | long, obviously, after she died. The coverage is, I think, it's been pretty predictable. I think |
| 1:49.6 | most of us would have guessed which direction would have headed in, which is very much enforced |
| 1:55.3 | national grief. Anyone seems to be deviating from that national grief. It's been quite heavily |
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