{"id":327042,"date":"2026-05-16T05:10:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T05:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=327042"},"modified":"2026-05-17T06:39:36","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T06:39:36","slug":"kit-knightly-quick-takethe-kings-speech-makes-me-laugh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=327042","title":{"rendered":"Kit Knightly: Quick Take\u2026The King\u2019s Speech Makes Me Laugh"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kit Knightly \u2013 Off-Guardian May 13, 2026<\/strong><\/h1>\n
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The King\u2019s Speech is hilarious these days. It\u2019s been irrelevant for a long time, but it\u2019s recently become genuinely funny.<\/p>\n

He rocks up to Parliament with this shiny hat and big old cloak, the MPs pretend to lock Black Rod out<\/a> to show they\u2019re independent, and then they all go and listen to him anyway.<\/p>\n

If the King were really a ruler it would at least mean something. But despite the trappings of a constitutional monarchy, he\u2019s really not at the top of the food chain.<\/p>\n

The speech we all have to listen to him give was not written by him, and he likely has no control over its content at all. It\u2019s supposedly written by his government, but that\u2019s not really true either.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a globalist policy document.<\/p>\n

Jury trials bad. Digital ID good.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a speech that could have been given \u2013 and, in fact, either already has been given, or soon will be given \u2013 by any politician in almost any country of the world.<\/p>\n

Sir<\/em> Keir Starmer is currently only Prime Minister because he\u2019s piled furniture up against the inside of Downing Street\u2019s front door, and keeps hurling cans of baked beans off the roof at anyone who comes near the place; but supposing the increasingly inevitable resignation had already happened\u2026would a new Prime Minister have changed the speech?<\/p>\n

Not in the slightest.<\/p>\n

Would a new government under a different party?<\/p>\n

Not really.<\/p>\n

Would a different king or queen?<\/p>\n

Nope.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s all pretend, none of these people really have any power \u2013 over the speech or each other \u2013 but it serves egos and systems to pretend they do, so MPs crowd around the big gold chair like kids in the story-time corner and nod along sagely to words they know his royal highness<\/em> might not mean and couldn\u2019t change if he wanted to.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s just funny to me.<\/p>\n

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Despite the crown and the trappings of a constitutional monarchy, King Charles is really not at the top of the food chain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61,58,67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-327042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Commentary","category-Current_Affairs","category-The_Rotten_Royals"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=327042"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":327070,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327042\/revisions\/327070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=327042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=327042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=327042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}