The UN is almost there. Just a teensy bit away from the "beyond parody" stage...
BRITAIN has been told to get rid of the Queen in an official United Nations report.
They can't do that. That'd be like Florida being ordered to close Disneyworld...
The UN Human Rights Council says the UK must “consider holding a referendum on the desirability or otherwise of a written constitution, preferably republican”.
We have spoken! Harrrumph harrumph harrumph...
| NOW maybe the Brits will see how useless the Human Rights Council is ... |
The demand by the council, which includes regimes like Saudi Arabia and Cuba among its 29 members, caused outrage last night. Advisers to the Queen refused to comment publicly. But privately they admitted being astonished.
I say! Perhaps they might be told to blow it out their wog arses? Politely, of course...
| The Brits should hold the referendum on abolishing the monarchy the day after the Saoodis hold theirs ... |
One senior Palace official said: “People here certainly haven’t detected any appetite for a referendum. “The Queen is a focus for national unity, identity and pride.”
Royal commentator Robert Lacey said the report showed a complete lack of understanding of the British system. “Parliament could change the law and abolish the monarchy tomorrow,” he said. “We don’t need a referendum to do that.”
| Parliament did it once, way back when ... |
Even campaigners representing hard-pressed taxpayers said yesterday they felt no need to get rid of an institution that costs each adult in Britain around 62p a year. Matthew Elliott, chief executive of the TaxPayers’ Alliance, said: “With so many human rights abuses around the world, the UN should be busy reporting on issues of starvation, execution and the denial of the vote to huge numbers of people around the world. Saudi Arabia and Cuba should pay a little more attention to their own human rights record.”
The UN comments about the Queen were included at the request of the councilÂ’s Sri Lankan envoy, Dayan Jayatilleka. Amnesty International revealed last week that hundreds of people have been kidnapped and murdered in Sri Lanka by shady forces allied to the government. But it is not the only country with an appalling record of its own queueing up to have a go at Britain.
The UN report also includes criticisms of the UK’s record on treating migrants from Sudan – whose government stands accused of killing at least 200,000 people in Darfur. Syria, whose previous president killed 25,000 in suppressing an Islamist rebellion in Hama, accuses the UK of discriminating against Muslims. And most bizarrely, Iran – where a woman was stoned to death for adultery last year – takes issue with Britain’s record on tackling sexual discrimination.
Ah for the days of gunboat diplomacy...
| But to do that you need a gunboat ... |
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