...and What Do You Do?: What the Royal Family Don't Want You to Know - Softcover

Baker, Norman

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1785906216 ISBN 13: 9781785906213

Verlag: Biteback Publishing, 2020

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A provocative and timely examination of the Royal Family's role in contemporary Britain covering their finances and constitutional role.

The first time a Privy Councillor has broken ranks and spoken about the Royal Family.

Members of the British Royal Family have become celebrities, like upmarket versions of film stars and footballers. But, argues former MP Norman Baker, they have also become a byword for arrogance, entitlement, hypocrisy and indifference to the gigantic amount of public money wasted by them.

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Norman Baker was the Lib Dem MP for Lewes from 1997 to 2015 and established a reputation as one of the most dogged and persistent parliamentary interrogators the modern House of Commons has known. Following the 2010 general election, he was appointed Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Transport, then Minister of State for Crime Prevention at the Home Office. He is the author of the acclaimed The Strange Death of David Kelly and the political memoir Against the Grain. He is an established singer-songwriter and has released three albums, and also hosts two weekly music shows on his local FM station.

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The royal family is the original Coronation Street – a long-running soap opera with the occasional real coronation thrown in. Its members have become celebrities, like upmarket versions of film stars and footballers. But they have also become a byword for arrogance, entitlement, hypocrisy and indifference to the gigantic amount of public money wasted by them.

The monarchy itself is an important part of our constitution with considerable influence on the kind of nation we are. Yet you will struggle to find much in the way of proper journalism that examines the monarchy in the way that their position and influence merit. Instead, we are fed a constant diet of sickeningly obsequious coverage which reports their activities with breathless and uncritical awe.

In this book, former government minister Norman Baker argues that the British public deserves better than this puerile diet.

… And What Do You Do? is a hard-hitting analysis of the royal family, exposing its extravagant use of public money and the highly dubious behaviour of some among its ranks, whilst being critical of the knee-jerk sycophancy shown by the press and politicians. Baker also considers the wider role the royals play in society, including the link with House of Lords reform, and the constitutional position of the monarch, which is important given Prince Charles’s present and intended approach.

What makes this book so unusual is that Baker is himself a member of the Privy Council, the body that officially advises the monarch. By turns irreverent and uncompromising, … And What Do You Do?

asks important questions about the future of the world’s most famous royal family.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Biteback Publishing
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2020
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1785906216
• ISBN 13: 9781785906213
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 416
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