Our Queen is no longer a sovereign

From: Rodney Atkinson, Meadowield Road, Stocksfield, Northumberland.

ALTHOUGH as a Monarchist I will celebrate the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, we have not been able for many decades to call Her Majesty our sovereign monarch.

European Treaties signed under Her Majesty’s Crown Prerogative powers (which Her Majesty granted to Government Ministers to sign on Her behalf) made our nation subordinate to a superior power, the European Union.

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Her Majesty’s Ministers know every day how powerless they are to make laws as the elected representatives of the British people. Instead of election manifestos, British political parties have wish lists and must “argue for” or “fight for” policies in Brussels and our parliament can do no more than rubber stamp thousands of regulations and laws as they are forced on the British people.

As such, the Queen is no longer a sovereign but a suzerain, that is the Head of a subordinated state, not a sovereign (self-governing) state.

From: Peter J Brown, Connaught Road, Middlesbrough, Cleveland.

AS somebody who is passionately interested in modern history and was born at the very end of 1952, 11 months after the Queen came to the throne – but six months before the Coronation of the present Queen – I find it fascinating that in the summer of 1952 the Secretary to the then Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill, Sir John Colville, wrote in the early hours of one Sunday morning of the grave economic problems that the country faced.

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He wrote: “The facts are stark, we cannot live as we do, we can hardly till enough land to feed the people, the former wartime enemies of Germany and Japan are already taking up our overseas markets, the British may accept the challenge of a foreign invasion but will they accept a cut in the standard of living?”

He also wrote that Sir Winston had told that he felt that his zest was diminished, and Sir John wrote that he did not think that the Prime Minister could see the light at the end of the tunnel because of the grave economic problems.

By the end of 1952 the economic situation had improved and by the time of the Queen’s Coronation in June 1953 the UK was moving towards prosperity and an end of food rationing and austerity.

On the day of the Queen’s Coronation it was cold and rainy in some areas of the UK and it even snowed on Cross Fell, the source of the Tees.

From: David W Wright, Uppleby, Easingwold.

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I WONDER how many people have stopped to think about the implications and justification for the celebration of the Queen’s Jubilee celebrations?

There are the usual anti-monarchy and republican supporters who will view the celebrations with contempt, but I wonder whether they and the wider public have considered the alternative to the monarch, warts and all, should the UK ever decide to become a republic?

This possibility is not far away with our continued membership of the United States of Europe which controls almost every aspect of our lives currently, and if Germany and France have their way then our total independence and monarchy system will be doomed.

So let’s celebrate the Jubilee and also campaign to leave the EU!

From: Ron Carbutt OBE, Cawthorne, Barnsley.

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ON Coronation Day in 1953, I was in Korea with the Durham Light Infantry and thought your readers may like sight of a message which came to us from the Commanding Officer just prior to the big day: “Along the front at 09.55 on Coronation Day, the guns of the Divisional Artillary will fire red, white and blue smoke.

“At 10.00, all front-line tanks will fire a one gun salvo. After the salvo the GOC hopes that every man, whatever his particular task may be, will give three cheers for Her Majesty the Queen.”

I often wonder what the Chinese troops made of all of this!

GM crop protest was misguided

From: Ken Cooke, Wheatley Road, Ilkley, Leeds.

REGARDING protests over GM crops (Yorkshire Post, May 28), we should all be pleased that common sense prevailed and that the Take The Flour Back vandals were turned away at the gates of Rothamstead Agricultural Research Station.

I appreciated your even-handed reporting of the case on page four. The aggressors claim that all consumers are opposed to GM varieties of any kind, yet they only managed to rally a meagre 200 people in support of the protest. Some farmers are wont to say “they are protesting on a full stomach”.`

As the director of Rothamstead, Prof Maurice Moloney, said: “We have no idea who is advising TTFB scientifically, but they are absolutely incorrect.”

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