The #UK is ejecting hereditary #nobles from #Parliament after 700 years

By Jill Lawless, March 11, 2026

Excerpt: "Centuries of British political tradition will end within weeks after Parliament voted to remove hereditary #aristocrats from the unelected House of Lords.

"On Tuesday night members of the upper chamber dropped objections to legislation passed by the House of Commons ousting dozens of #dukes, #earls and #viscounts who inherited seats in Parliament along with their aristocratic titles.

"Government minister Nick Thomas-Symonds said the change put an end to 'an archaic and undemocratic principle.'

" 'Our parliament should always be a place where talents are recognized and merit counts,' he said. 'It should never be a gallery of old boys’ networks, nor a place where titles, many of which were handed out centuries ago, hold power over the will of the people.' "

https://apnews.com/article/uk-house-of-lords-hereditary-peers-expelled-535df8781dd01e8970acda1dca99d3d4

#NoKings #AbolishTheMonarchy #BullshitTitles #UKPol

The power of a King’s Speech: https://www.aurianneor.org/the-power-of-a-kings-speech/

#art, #aurianneor, #CharlesIII, #coronation, #costofliving, #culture #war, #democracy, #dukes, #elections, #environment, #fascist, #inflation, #jetset, #king, #migrants, #monarchy, #nazi, #opulence, #people, #Photomontage, #politics, #pollution, #poor, #princes, #royalfamily, #terror, #Tories

Hype for the Future 68I: The Historical Significance of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, County by County

https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026/01/07/hype-for-the-future-68i-the-historical-significance-of-the-commonwealth-of-massachusetts-county-by-county/

Hype for the Future 65C: Martha’s Vineyard, the Island of Dukes County

https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026/01/04/hype-for-the-future-65c-marthas-vineyard-the-island-of-dukes-county/

Hype for the Future 65B: Nantucket, a Queer Haven, Town, County, and Island

https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026/01/04/hype-for-the-future-65b-nantucket-a-queer-haven-town-county-and-island/

The currently trendy obsession with being a "#king" is poison.

Buddy, the vast majority of #men throughout human #history—past, present, and future—are not kings. If you think you are, or can be, you don't understand how people function. We're not #knights either. We're #peasants. We're born, we live, we work, we die. Nobody but our friends and families will ever know we existed. When they die too, we will be completely and utterly forgotten.*

The ones who are kings? Or #dukes, or #barons, or knights? Shitheads, by and large. Even the "good ones" turn out to be pretty bad when you look closely. #Rulers need the #people, but people don't need rulers. This is a lesson the world learned through millennia of blood and pain. Those who want to discard that hard-won knowledge are scum.

If that's what you want to be ... okay, thanks for letting us know what you are. We won't forget it.