Prince Philip and Britain’s deluded deference to the ruling class.

There is something seriously wrong with a country that reacts this hysterically to the death of a 99 year old aristocrat.

Prince Philip, the Queen’s husband of 70+ years, has passed away. This is a sad event in any family, and of course my thoughts go out to the Windsor family for the loss of a loved one, as they would for any family loosing a great-grandparent. But the events that have unfolded around this (unremarkable in a normal country) passing, have shown us a lot about our blind deference to the ruling class, and just how out of whack Britain’s attitude to authority and class really is.

Let’s cut through the hysteria and hyperbole and make a few things clear: there was nothing remarkable about this man, and he wasn’t where he was through meritocracy or “hard work and duty”, he was a racist bastard who got everything handed to him on a platter, insulted and bullied wherever he went, treated his wife like dirt (at least historically), and defined everything wrong with our traditional conception of British masculinity.

Philip was a cheerleader for Empire, and a man with (exemplified by a lifetime of remarks) a thoroughly colonial worldview. A completely unremarkable old man who married the right person at the right time, and has embarrassed the nation with his “jokes” ever since. A national embarrassment much more than a national hero, and not someone I owe any deference whatsoever, nor do any of you, because you are being oppressed by the very power structures that gave this man his title, and made his death during this time matter more than the death of any of our loved ones.

The media coverage deserves a special slice of condemnation. Having people on the Sunday shows speculating about the dynamics in a family who’s lost a loved one is fully deranged, and demonstrates the “gilded cage” that the Royal Family really is, a horrendous institution that makes all within it miserable, and which we all must revere for a reason that in my lifetime so far hasn’t become even remotely clear. Having these chats on national TV about any bereaved family should be considered wrong in any sane country.

The whitewashing of Philip’s dire legacy has been particularly infuriating. We’ve heard of his jokes that “put people at ease”, and his “gaffes”. The word they’re looking for is RACISM. He wasn’t “un PC” or “controversial”, he was a filthy, racist old windbag, who insulted people and cultures wherever he went; don’t mistake the shock factor from that for sense of humour. Indeed, it’s possibly the most British thing in the world (in the worst way possible) that we daren’t speak the name of the racism right in front of us, with every media outlet this weekend not only covering it up, but actually DEFENDING and idolising it as somehow an admirable character trait. This from the establishment that said Jeremy Corbyn was beyond the pale for “racism”, reads like a sickening joke.

The most vomit inducing, truly deprived thing, dwarfs all of that. Prince goddamn Andrew, on the BBC, talking about the death of Prince Philip, somehow trying to rehabilitate his image; giving us all the middle finger, as if to say “that’s right, we can get away with anything”. This is a man alleged to have has sex with a trafficked minor, who never seriously answered these charges and wouldn’t comply with investigation. This man should be in fucking handcuffs. This is a literally an alleged pedophile, who was mates with Jeffery Epstein, with accusations to his name. Shame on the BBC, they deserve to come off air just for that, just for airing that clip with no scrutiny. Absolutely repulsive.

The media coverage has been over the top to the extreme, with our state propaganda outlet the BBC creating a special complaints page they were so inundated with complaints regarding the morbid hysteria over the weekend. I think it’s no exaggeration to say some lonely people may have been driven to suicide through all this. Think about the people, all alone, no internet, with the TV mourning, and the radio playing sad ballads; absolutely irresponsible and we need an apology for this from the nation’s media.

We live in an era of crises, the death of a wizened aristocrat shouldn’t even be top story, it should be lower down the agenda, with the headlines being things that actually matter to society. A news special on in the evenings, a tribute programme here or there, that would be proportionate, this, this is insane. This is the media showing themselves so out of touch that they’re forcing all this down our throats after a year when 100s of thousands of us have died; it really shows who does and doesn’t matter. The media wasn’t morbid then, it shouldn’t be morbid now; we need entertainment, not misery, even if we are sad about Prince Philip (absolutely your personal right, I completely respect that, just not to be splashed through the media thanks).

This whole ordeal could have been leveraged by the powerful to consolidate the national infatuation with the Monarchy, using that sympathy to secure their position as our national figureheads, but this has been so over the top, mark my words, some more republicans will have been politically born this weekend, and class consciousness will have increased, as some people see how much is it “us and them” and how different the deaths of those in the establishment are treated.

British people have an almost fanatical case of Stockholm syndrome; they revere authority and their deranged ruling class, and they really do vote against their interests consistently. They have been quite literally bamboozled and addled by a compliant media into thinking a hereditary Monarchy is somehow (??) a suitable institution to carry into 21st century. Both the perpetual Tory election victories and the consent for the Monarchy come from the same source: we can’t stop ourselves from worshipping our oppressors, even compared to other western nations such as the US and European countries, we are totally blind in our deference to the ruling class, no questions asked.