Jim Cousens: How Queen Victoria is protected from robust debate of her legacy by modern feminist mongrels.

www.jimcousens.com ^ | 16 February 2020 | Ozguy1945

[Ozguy1945]

Like Canada and many Commonwealth nations, Australia is a constitutional monarchy where Queen Elisabeth of the English House Of Windsor is the head of state.

Many Australians want Australia to become a republic, but not yet enough to make the change.

Jim Cousens discusses the debate and how political correctness influences what he is able to say.

NB This is satire.

[St. Louis Conservative]

Bring back the British Empire in all her glory.

Let’s be honest, most places were better off under British rule (Zimbabwe, South Africa, Egypt, Pakistan, etc etc)

Love live the Queen.

[ifinnegan]

“Bring back the British Empire in all her glory.”

So you want us to be under the heel of a regent?

[EvilCapitalist]

Only if you have a Prime Minister like Winston Churchill. The British Empire was a wreck after Neville Chamberlain.

[Verginius Rufus]

Churchill had his flaws--he wasn't right on every issue. But in the most important challenge of his lifetime--standing up to Hitler and ensuring the defeat of Nazism--he rose to the occasion. If not the most important person in the 20th century, he is among the top 3 or 4.

The British Empire couldn't be maintained forever as the colonies began to demand self-determination--the British could not have waged war in every colony seeking independence. The former colonial possessions which were largely settled by people from the British Isles or Europe are doing pretty well--Canada, Australia, New Zealand. The others, not as well, but probably on the whole a little better than former French colonies.

[Thilly Thailor]

My Irish ancestors would respectfully disagree.

[St. Louis Conservative]

The empire was crumbling by the time they got to Chamberlain. Really it was over after WW1. Even though they reached their territorial peak after WW1, the Great War left the empire severely in debt and a working class restless for great social change. Soon the aristocracy would fall....

[St. Louis Conservative]

Ireland was always weak

[Ozguy1945]

The British empire wasnt all bad but it wasnt all good either. The defects of British heritage have been catastrophic for me in Australia. I am profoundly envious of American heritage which threw off the shackles of imperialist ways of thinking and established much better defences of freedom: the Australian culture, which I was born into, has nothing as good as this: https://freedom-demokrasi-and-civilised-humanity.com/2020/02/07/one-minutes-silence-for-sotu/

[St. Louis Conservative]

Interesting perspective. Appreciate it.

I’ve always been one to admire British colonialism and imperialism.

But I don’t have the experience that you have had.

[Verginius Rufus]

When the potato famine hit Ireland and one million Irish people died of starvation, while English landlords were exporting food from Ireland, Queen Victoria donated one thousand pounds to famine relief (at least that is the figure I read somewhere).

Sort of like the woman who had $6 in her bank account and gave $3 to Elizabeth Warren.

/s

[Thilly Thailor]

Yes, that’s right. The English sent soldiers to take food from the mouths of starving Irish children to send it to English cities to feed their own proletariat. It’s one of those sins that cries out to Heaven for vengeance. Actually, I think that England is probably dead as a nation anyway, seeing as how they can’t even defend their own children from Muslim rape gangs. So, maybe there is some justice in this world.