Feudalism and favour!

March 2, 2026

It appears from history that feudalism was followed by a long and difficult road to democracy in Britain. The road had many difficulties as the landed Aristocracy sought at every turn to halt and reverse that progress to a governance of the people, for the people and by the people.

In the end Britain ended up with a dog’s breakfast of democracy tainted by substantial remnants of Feudalism. One of these was an inherited royalty without accountability to the people but with substantial powers to frustrate the operation of that democracy, along with an upper House composed mainly of the remnants and bits and bobs of the old landed aristocracy substantially affected by genetic inbreeding.

That system was then adopted by those forming the new polity of Australia as our head of state, with lively expectations of royal honors to be showered upon them for retaining an institution already a hundred years out of date. That expectation was often satisfied by the conferral of meaningless titles to satisfy needs for recognition of submission and servility.

That such an unmerited power could dismiss a popularly elected government demonstrated the limits we had accepted on our democratic rights!!