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7th
MAR

Mrs Windsor wouldn’t miss our outpost colony

Posted by karere under Maori News

Matt McCarten on the Monarchy

  • When will we stop pretending we are a South Pacific outpost of the Windsor family who reside in London? Betty Windsor is the Queen of England. She’s still ours, too.

    • When her parents ruled us, one fourth of the world was part of their empire. Now Britain ranks barely equal to France and Germany in influence.

  • Globally, it’s content to being the erstwhile deputy sheriff to the United States. How absurd is it that our head of state dons her English regalia and sends off her subjects to be slaughtered in an Iraq invasion whilst the loyal government she heads, in New Zealand, opposes it?

    • Do we suffer some deep grained inferiority complex that we want some old English biddy to be our head of state? I suspect and hope it’s more about that we don’t really care.

  • But it does matter. It’s surreal that our law prevents a New Zealand-born citizen being our head of state. Instead we let out-of-touch dysfunctional English toffs take that honour.

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