Prince Phillip’s death has unleashed a carnival of Establishment drivel

Just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse in this post-Brexit, post-colonial husk of a sinking ship otherwise known as the UK, it does.

The death of Prince Phillip at 99 has produced a veritable flood of servile paeans to the most regressive, archaic, anti-democratic institution in Europe, the British Monarchy. The BBC in particular has lost its mind, devoting an entire’s day’s programming to sanctifying the legacy of an open racist whose life was spent living in the lap of luxury at the UK taxpayer’s expense.

You could be forgiven for thinking Prince Phillip fought and won the Second World War singlehandedly, going by the mountain of obsequious nonsense being spouted about his navy service, or that he’d spent his entire life committed to public service. Here we enter an upside down world, wherein those who are served and served lavishly are deemed public servants, while those who really do serve — NHS nurses, teachers, fireman et al. — are in the eyes of a British establishment that exists to keep the UK entwined in a tight embrace with the 19th century treated as just so much flotsam and jetsum in the grand scheme of things.

Eight days of mourning for the death of a 99-year-old man who knew nothing but privilege in a country in which 150,000 souls have been lost to Covid due largely to the criminal negligence of a government whose ministers have spared no platitude or superlative in their near beatification of the former at the expense of the latter, this is nothing less than a provocation.

Assorted Establishment flunkies would have us believe that the UK is in a state of national mourning, when clearly it is not. It would have us believe that the royals are worthy of our unthinking and unconditional veneration, when clearly they are not. And they would have us believe that being British is something to be when again clearly it is not.

The vast population of the homeless and hungry and despised across these islands not the monarchy…