Revealed: Queen’s sweeping immunity from more than 160 laws

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  1. *”The practice of preventing the Queen’s employees from bringing discrimination claims against her household dates back to the late 1960s, when courtiers told ministers that “it was not, in fact, the practice to appoint coloured immigrants or foreigners” to clerical roles in the royal household.”*

    I thought the (professed) point of the royal family existing was that they’re supposed to be exemplary role models for British families to aspire to.

    Actually, that does make sense now I think about it..

  2. >More than 30 different laws stipulate that police are barred from entering the private Balmoral and Sandringham estates without the Queen’s permission to investigate suspected crimes, including wildlife offences and environmental pollution – a legal immunity accorded to no other private landowner in the country.

    But of course, they have no actual power.

  3. So, she could slaughter a whole maternity ward of newborns with a corkscrew and she’d be technically immune from justice? Nice.

  4. They could be running a Meth Lab at Balmoral but Police Scotland couldn’t investigate unless she let them do so?

    Quite extraordinary levels of privilege.

  5. Abolish it and deport them. Draconian institution. Fuck the entire royal family and everything they stand for. “Let’s give 40+ million to councils to celebrate our jubilee” while millions live below the poverty line and starve. I fucking can’t stand the same oxygen they breathe let alone reading anything about them. “Oh but they bring in…” blah blah heard it all before. Whether they are dead or alive, people don’t come to the UK to see the royals, because you don’t see them in public when you come on your merry holidays here. You see the institutions they own and live in.

    Fuck em, all of them.

  6. Control the coinage and the courts and let the rabble have the rest. Padashar emperor shaddam 4th, Frank Herbert ‘s Dune

  7. Of course she can’t be hauled up in court, the monarch rules by divine right as a direct descendent of God, Jesus and the Tooth Fairy. The Guardian needs to be executed for lese-majeste.

  8. Her son is a sex offender and his castle is exempt from investigation for sexual offences.

    How awfully convenient. I wonder why she got that law passed.

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