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Week in Review: Reluctant royalists hide from royal weddings

'There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.' - William S. Burroughs View this email in your browser From May 25th new EU regulations come into force and we won't be able to send you this email unless you resubscribe. Yes, we know. Those dastardly Europeans with their red tape. If you don't want to miss your Friday dose of politics and commentary, click the button below. Takes three seconds. RE-SUBSCRIBE Royal events bring out the worst in everyone. Monarchists turn into babbling mystics, as if they were discussing a magic ritual rather than a trumped-up Hello magazine photoshoot. Republicans turn into sneering bores, always banging on about the same old argument they've been making for the last 20 years. Even otherwise normal people become quite curtain-twitchy. What happened to Meghan Markle's dad? Will he come or won't he? Who will walk her down the aisle? Will her mum do it instead? If not, why not? No-one seemed to ask the most prescient question: Who cares? Maybe her mum wasn't up for it? Maybe someone with no experience of public engagements was a bit put off by appearing in front the entire planet. Maybe they don't get on. It is none of our business. There is a kind of tawdry public laundry at these events, where any privacy is eradicated and the messy personal lives of people involved are treated like legitimate matters of public concern. Did they know what they were getting into when they chose to enter the royal family? Yes. Is it still grim to watch the facile, busybody spectacle roll along? Yes it is. But spare a thought during this period for the smallest, most hard-done by minority: reluctant constitutional monarchists. They have few allies and no safe tribal grounds to hide away in. They baffle royalists and are condemned by republicans. They are horribly embarrassed by all the wedding nonsense, but don't even get to demand, intuitively, that we should just scrap the whole thing. They have to grin and bear it. Reluctant monarchists come from a variety of different schools of thought. For many of them, the question about the head of state isn't really about what would you like, but what you'd like less. They often don't support the royal family, it's just that they can't see any acceptable alternative. No-one wants a president. Just imagine a Labour or Tory careerist being put up as head of state.  For others, it's useful that the head of state role is fulfilled by someone without democratic input. As soon as you vote for them, some people did not vote for them. If someone is to function as a depository of benign patriotic sentiment, they need to be completely free of party politics and electioneering. For others, it's a simple 'if it ain't broke don't fix it' calculation. Of all the things that need repair in this country, the monarchy comes very far down the list. They still command public support, among members of all parties, among Leavers and Remainers, among young and old, in the cities and the countryside. The Queen in particular - but also, to a greater extent than is acknowledged, her offspring - continue to conduct themselves with a visible sense of duty and restraint. They get a lot of money for their troubles, of course, but the price is a life completely and utterly controlled by institution and national responsibility. Your life is not really your own, and it is hard to think of any income which would make up for that fact. Others find the constitutional function provides stability, continuity and a sense of shared social experience in a quickly changing and fragmented society. Whatever the argument, reluctant royalists are surprisingly common. And this is basically the worst time for them. The condition of membership is not just support for the monarchy - it is also acute embarrassment at all the pomp and ceremony hogwash a royal wedding entails. Reluctant royalism is a very British club. It demands discomfort, resignation and silent, simmering frustration. This club will spend the weekend neither watching the royal wedding nor ranting and raving against it. The best place for it is in the pub. Probably in the corner. But all things told, it's a good club for the times. It is a club which asks you to like and dislike things simultaneously. It is a club which asks you to weigh up political priorities, decide which one you value most, and then accept certain sacrifices in order to preserve it. It is a club of painful compromise. And in a world where politics is increasingly spoken of as if it were something very simple, as if easy answers could be provided for complex questions, that is maybe something to admire. Latest Articles If you want to have a real conversation about customs, talk about the backstop On May 16, 2018 9:07 AM Another day, another interminable conversation about two customs options which have already been rejected by Brussels, lawyers and the laws of objective reality. The British Brexit debate is trapped in an interminable and extremely tedious daydream with no pertinence to the reality of the process. Read more... »   Child poverty is being baked into govt policy On May 17, 2018 7:43 AM When Theresa May first stood on the steps of Downing Street she made a pledge to focus on "fighting the burning injustice" that meant people born into poverty died an average of nine years earlier than others. Read more... »   Britain's democratic farce: This is how the upcoming 'hereditary by-election' will work On May 15, 2018 9:42 AM A peer has decided to retire. No big news usually, but this is no ordinary peerage. Nor will it be an ordinary replacement. In fact, it will represent the totally unreformed, undemocratic nature of the second chamber. Read more... »   This is what free movement means to me On May 15, 2018 8:03 AM I flunked my A-levels badly. It was self-imposed failure, really. I was fed up with the sausage-factory approach to exams and decided to give the system a bloody nose by doing no work. This had absolutely no effect on the system and lots of effect on me Read more... »   MPs must learn from the Lords and stand up to the Daily Mail On May 14, 2018 7:48 AM The government is a shambles on Brexit. Even many Conservatives concede that. But there is a much deeper Brexit malaise at the heart of our government and across the civil service. Read more... »   There is a crisis of free speech in university - and the govt implemented it On May 14, 2018 7:58 AM "A society in which people feel they have a legitimate right to stop someone expressing their views on campus simply because they are unfashionable or unpopular is rather chilling." Read more... »   Opinion Former videos    Planning for people On May 9, 2018 11:33 AM The English planning system is under review. This video explains the issues and loopholes that lie in the current (and proposed) planning policy. It describes how we'd like to shape it to work for local people and the countryside, rather than to profit developers. Read more... »   Rural communities denied affordable housing as developers exploit loophole On Mar 5, 2018 11:35 AM This animation, from the CPRE, highlights that England hasn't built enough genuinely affordable homes in rural or urban areas for decades. Read more... »   Opinion Formers articles Government to offer funds for new fully selective religious schools out of free schools pot Today, while the Government announced it will not allow the opening of new 100% selective religious free schools, it also announced it will allow the opening of new 100% selective religious voluntary aided schools.  Read more... »   Opinion Formers press releases   Concern about extension of time limits on tax investigations The Chartered Institute of Taxation (CIOT) is highly critical of the Government's proposal to extend significantly the tax assessment time limits indiscriminately in cases involving offshore matters.  Read more... »   BASC showcases benefits of shooting in government sports inquiry BASC has told a government inquiry how shooting can help to get more people active, reduce social isolation and promote personal wellbeing while encouraging engagement with the natural environment. 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Week in Review: Total Brexit stalemate

"You may delay, but time will not" - Benjamin Franklin View this email in your browser From May 25th new EU regulations come into force and we won't be able to send you this email unless you resubscribe. Yes, we know. Those dastardly Europeans with their red tape. If you don't want to miss your Friday dose of politics and commentary, click the button below. Takes three seconds. RE-SUBSCRIBE Nothing is going on. You can leave the room of British politics without pausing it, go make a cup of tea, and it'll still be in the same place when you get back.   Theresa May has reached an impasse in the Cabinet. Idea one is staying in the customs union. She can't do that because the Brexiters will not accept it. Idea two is a customs partnership, which is either an invented system already rejected by the EU or a sneaky rebranding on customs union membership - no-one is quite sure, including probably herself. She can't do this because the Brexiters will not accept it either. Idea three is a so-called 'maximum facilitation' model, which is basically a fancy name for using smartphone apps to not check lorries at the border. She can't do that because Cabinet moderates and the EU won't accept it. She's stuck.    Nearly every day there is a newspaper report saying that May's team or some other minister have a new plan to move things along, and that new plan always involves delaying things. The latest wheeze is to have May divide the Cabinet into two groups - you'll remember this from school - and have them duke out the differences between the partnership and 'max-fac' systems. But of course this involves pointing out the problems with the models, which are legion, and that will invariably lead to her saying both need more work, which was itself what the government was saying last summer when it released its original position paper on the subject. And that then means she'll have to delay again. It's political purgatory.   Both sides of this fantasy-land debate have their own delaying tactics. Former May aide Nick Timothy, who supports the 'max-fac' model, is suggesting that they could perhaps extend the transition period to get it all set up. In truth, they'd need to extend it by about eight further years and join the single market if it was to have any chance of success, but that is a level of objective reality he is not yet ready for. Nevertheless, the fact hard Brexiters are starting to acknowledge what all experts are saying - that a two-year transition is clearly not enough time - is worth noting. Wherever you look, delay is the only inspiration.   Over in parliament, nothing is also happening. Commons leader Andrea Leadsom has given no timings for the return of the EU withdrawal bill from the Lords, or indeed any news on any of the other Brexit bills. The 14 Lords amendments aren't being brought to the Commons because the government is afraid it will lose. Plus it is quite hard to whip MPs into a position when the Cabinet cannot agree on one.   So Cabinet cannot reach a decision because it does not know what it is doing and parliament is not allowed to scrutinise legislation because the government cannot trust that it will do the right thing even though it doesn't know what that is. And all the while Brussels sits there waiting, as the Article 50 clock ticks remorselessly down.   We have all become slowly accustomed to this level of ideological and practical ineptitude. But in the future, historians will marvel at how the government was allowed to behave this way with comparatively little outrage, given the scale of the inadequacy. Latest Articles Lords vote: No place left for Corbyn to hide On May 9, 2018 9:44 AM Yesterday's vote was shocking. Just before 8pm, the House of Lords defeated the government by 245 votes to 218 and demanded that Britain stays in the single market. Eighty-three Labour peers resisted Jeremy Corbyn's demand that they abstain - nearly half the party's backbenchers. Read more... »   Glimmer of light: Could Sajid Javid make a difference on drug policy? On May 11, 2018 7:59 AM The first time I met the new home secretary was when he came to my house. Sajid Javid is our local MP and he came over to hear the story of how two of our sons had been killed by heroin. It was 2015. Read more... »   Voter ID: This trial fixed nothing but Tory election fortunes On May 11, 2018 7:48 AM There was rightly a storm last week when it emerged that nearly 4,000 people were denied the right to vote following the pilot of an ID scheme at a handful of polling stations. Read more... »   It's time for a Lib Dem - Green party merger On May 10, 2018 8:48 AM An alliance between the Green party and the Liberal Democrats may seem like an absurd proposition. For what reason would the Greens, who've historically been to the left, want to offer their support to a political party which propped up the Conservatives as they implemented an austerity programme?  Read more... » This is what the hostile environment did to asylum seekers On May 8, 2018 7:47 AM The Windrush scandal is a stain on our national conscience and there has rightly been a great deal of political handwringing and moral outrage.  Read more... »   Opinion Former videos     Planning for people On May 9, 2018 11:33 AM The English planning system is under review. This video explains the issues and loopholes that lie in the current (and proposed) planning policy. It describes how we'd like to shape it to work for local people and the countryside, rather than to profit developers. Read more... »   Rural communities denied affordable housing as developers exploit loophole On Mar 5, 2018 11:35 AM This animation, from the CPRE, highlights that England hasn't built enough genuinely affordable homes in rural or urban areas for decades. Read more... »   Opinion Formers articles   Construction start for Stockport bridge Work has begun to deliver a new road bridge over the River Mersey in Stockport, which is due to open to traffic next year. Read more... »   Opinion Formers press releases   Digital thinking to cut down on rail closures Bank Holiday blockades of train lines to allow for engineering could soon be consigned to history with the advent of the 'digital railway', a conference heard yesterday. Read more... »   BASC gives city children a taste of the countryside BASC representatives spoke to children and teachers at a farm run by the charity Farms for City Children about wildlife management and the role of the gamekeeper. 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