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The Campaign Team:

On Saturday June 25 Republic will be staging a protest outside Buckingham palace to challenge the continuing scandal of royal spending, despite the Royal Parks agency banning the demo.

Staff at the agency have refused to [read more]

The Campaign Team:

On Saturday 25th June we’ll be protesting outside Buckingham palace to highlight the continued waste of public money being spent on the monarchy.

Details of the protest are on the website, it will start at [read more]

Graham Smith:

In another recent post one commenter was suggesting that the cost of becoming a republic would be astronomical because the state would lose the Crown Estate, the palaces and the royal art collection (among other [read more]

Graham Smith:

We received this email from a monarchist called Charles recently, in which he suggests that we don’t need to worry about the institution being democratic because it makes money. Here’s what he said:

As far [read more]

Ashley Walsh:

After the Treasury’s decision to steal UKIP’s abysmal policy of linking royal funding to the profits of the Crown Estate, there was a lot of equally abysmal press coverage re-evangelising absurd ideas about the Windsors [read more]

Graham Smith:

I’ve had a few emails via our monarchist page which I’ve not had the time to respond to lately. Here’s one from Thomas, who takes up the issue of the Duchies of Lancaster [read more]

Graham Smith:

We haven’t responded to the “I’m a monarchist…” emails for a while, so let’s get back to them. Here we have one from Edward, with my responses interspersed between the paragraphs, who says:

I am [read more]