However, the administration led by Sir Keir Starmer seems unhappy with this. Subtly – almost, one might say, on the sly – communications from “His Majesty’s Government” now come from the “UK Government”. Never mind the wicked waste of taxpayers’ money that has funded this pointless and offensive re-brand. The very fact of it is a slight against our history and our constitution: and neither I nor anybody else seems to have been consulted about whether we wanted it, and particularly about whether we wanted the insult it conveys to our Sovereign and to our history.
In both Houses of Parliament questions are still put down to “His Majesty’s Government” and the administration led – at time of writing – by Sir Keir Starmer is known by that description. And Mrs Badenoch leads His Majesty’s Loyal Opposition, and not the UK Loyal Opposition, which sounds like something one might find in a banana republic. However, all communications to the people of the United Kingdom must now come from something called “UK Government”. His Majesty, and a thousand years of history, have been written out of the script: and we were never asked.
The Government (His Majesty’s, that is) say it was a “strategic” decision. Whom does this strategy benefit? With its customary contempt for the public (only 21 per cent of whom with a vote actually supported it at the last election), do Labour ministers, their army of anti-monarchy special advisers and their collaborators in the blob really think the British people are so thick that they would otherwise think that His Majesty sits on a throne all day directing the country?
Can somebody list the advantages of this unpleasant change? Or, by downgrading King Charles III in this deeply offensive and ahistorical fashion, do they feel they have struck a blow for republicanism, and are now at the thin end of that particular wedge?
Every poll shows that the King and most of his family have popularity ratings far higher than those of any elected politician, and especially of the present Prime Minister and his chums. You can bet that will not change even when (and not if) Sir Keir gets chucked under the proverbial bus.
It is not too late for a “strategic” re-re-brand, reverting to the correct and time-honoured style: something this benighted “UK Government” would be well-advised to do if it does not wish to be even more despised than it already is.
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