I’ll say right off that I did not watch That Interview last night because I was trying to have what little life I have available to me in these pandemic times, but judging from the reaction over the Twitter Machine, I have a feeling that we’re in for a week full of boneheaded op-eds and “tough questions” about being a constitutional monarchy, or whether we should abandon the monarchy. Well, good luck with that, because we’d need to rewrite the constitution from top to bottom, because the Crown is the central organising principle, and good luck deciding on just what we would replace the monarchy with. No, seriously – good luck, because that exercise went so poorly in Australia that not only did their republican referendum failed, but support for the monarchy has been on the rise since.
https://twitter.com/EmmMacfarlane/status/1368770788128620544
https://twitter.com/EmmMacfarlane/status/1368771249464348677
https://twitter.com/EmmMacfarlane/status/1368771778047262727
Unfortunately, on most days, even that seems like pie in the sky thinking. So prepare for a few days or weeks of concentrated anti-monarchy sentiment following tonight's interview. I'm sure it'll be well-informed and nuanced lololololol.
'nite Twitter.
8/8— Emmett Macfarlane 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 (@EmmMacfarlane) March 8, 2021
And lo, some of our country’s Serious Journalists are already Asking Questions™. And it’s going about as well as you can expect.
We pay when they come on an official tour. That's it. https://t.co/LVWe7mpzAv
— Dale Smith (@journo_dale) March 8, 2021
And if we’re going to try and turn the story about the monarchy into our usual gripes about hairshirt parsimony, can we just not? Honestly, if you want to go cheap, what we’ve got is pretty much the cheapest option.
— Dale Smith (@journo_dale) March 8, 2021
So, yeah. That’s what we can look forward to this week. I can’t wait, because I’m sure it’ll be even dumber than we expect.
https://twitter.com/tomhawthorn/status/1368818526564229121