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Wednesday, 8 November 2023

“Speech From the Throne”, Revealed Plans to Increase Spying Powers and showed a Complete Disregard For Human Rights.

 King Charles III made his first speech to parliament as the British monarch yesterday. “The “Speech from the Throne”is a key part of the State Opening of Parliament ceremony, marking the start of the parliamentary year. The speech is written by the government, so it is essentially Sunaks speech. therefore it is unsurprising that it “outlined priorities” set by the UK government. While failing to address many important areas, plans were reiterated to increase powers of surveillance or as Silkie Carlo, Director of Big Brother Watch terms it, the “Snoopers Charter” and also showed the UK Government’s almost complete disregard for human rights according to Amnesty UK

There was also a complete disregard for the excess deaths in Britain, the barbaric war crimes, and calls for a ceasefire in Gaza, and much more, including the fact that

“People are sitting at home unable to pay their electricity bills…. & then you see all this pomp & ceremony… I’m not sure this is the right image that anybody wants to be seeing… said Kirsty Blackman (SNP MP)

he speech included 21 pieces of legislation, notably, lower than the 38 bills announced in the Queen’s Speech, which King Charles delivered in his mother’s absence, in May 2022. and despite knowing what the Bills were this time, he said that his Government’s priority “is to make the difficult but necessary long-term decisions to change this country for the better”....<<<Read More>>>...