“ACTIVISTS step up battle to end monarchy exemptions” was Thursday’s front-page headline. Read on, and by generally accepted standards, you may consider the behaviour of the late Queen Elizabeth to have been unacceptable. Some might dare to add cunning and devious.
Secret and influential lobbying of Holyrood on matters such as property taxation would not seem to have been beneath the dignity of the owner of Balmoral.
READ MORE: Activists in bid to end monarchy lobbying Scottish Parliament
How much longer can the true Scottish character put up with this UK top-down society of privilege and cap-doffing sycophants?
Matters of law and common decency must be left to consideration by the voting masses of an independent Scottish Parliament in a classless, republican democracy.
Iain R Thomson
Strathglass
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