Wrongs galore so please don’t criticise

THIS week saw yet another letter where the writer banged on about the evils of rule from Europe and the “unelected” bureaucrats of its Parliament.

Are the writers of such letters really so unaware of the country in which they live? How do they have the nerve to criticise other places for (their) perceived lack of democracy?

Can’t they even remember that the UK has a hereditary and, therefore, totally undemocratic head of state?

Have they also forgotten that we have a totally unelected and, therefore, also undemocratic Upper House? Surely the clue lies in its title: The House of Lords!

And to make things worse, do they realise that the heir apparent to the above-mentioned head of state rejoices in a stolen title – the Prince of Wales?

That same family murdered the real Prince of Wales in 1282 and cut off his head to display in London.

And not only that! The very name by which so many of the subjects – yes, subjects, not citizens – of the UK call themselves is also stolen.

In medieval times scribes wrote of the British (the Welsh and Cornish), the French (the Normans) and the English.

But in the reign of Elizabeth I the powers that were in England decided that for geo-political reasons (during the grabbing of lands in the Americas) it would be expedient to start calling themselves “British” so that they could then inherit – or rather steal again – the Celtic British traditions of early travel back and forth across the Atlantic.

So what do these writers really have?

They live in a country that stole so much from others, they cannot elect their head of state or their Upper House of Parliament and yet they still feel they are entitled to criticise other countries and institutions for perceived wrongs that are in fact minute compared with those under which they live!

When will they ever learn?