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Even Morrissey won’t shout at the Queen on Christmas Day
By Andy Malt | Published on Wednesday 10 December 2014
Morrissey is known for his distaste for the royal family. However, he’s turned down the opportunity to deliver Channel 4’s alternative Christmas speech because he thinks that shouting at an old lady (even the Queen) wouldn’t really in the spirit of the day.
In a statement published via True-To-You.net, he says: “My view that the monarchy should be quietly dismantled for the good of England is reasonably well-known, but I don’t think Christmas Day is quite the time to be trading slaps. The Queen should be allowed the impassioned trance of her annual address to the British people, if only to once again prove that, in her frozen posture, she has nothing to offer and nothing to say, and she has no place in modern Britain except as a figure of repression; no independent thought required”.
He continues: “The Queen very well might be the most powerful woman in England, but she lacks the power to make herself loved, and the phony inflation of her family attacks all rational intellect. All over the world highly civilized peoples exist without the automatic condescension of a ‘royal’ family. England can do the same, and will find more respect for doing so”.
I think that basically was an alternative Christmas speech, so maybe just read it out loud to your family on Christmas Day while they’re all trying to listen to the Queen.
