The United Kingdom shamelessly prostrated itself at the feet of Donald Trump on Wednesday, throwing a lavish welcoming party for his state visit to Windsor that resembled less diplomacy and more fealty.
In doing so, the U.K. has revealed something deeply unflattering about itself—in the scramble to keep America close, it will debase itself and its values completely.
It will silence dissent, empty out its traditions, and rent out its monarch like a sex worker, deployed to flatter the ego of a man who has spent much of his political life suggesting he should be treated like one, a monarch, not a sex worker, that is.
As stage props go, the monarchy is unbeatable. But if this is what the “special relationship” between the U.S and the U.K. now means, it looks to many in Britain less like a partnership and more like groveling, feudal servitude.
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True.
After all, Workhouses and Indentured Servitude (the later, curiously, a reintroduction of Slavery - this time Debt-based - 3 decades after Britain abolished Chatel Slavery) were very common British practices in the 19th Century.
Also things that never get shown in modern portrayals of that time - such as Downtown Abbey - are how the “house staff” really got treated: for example they had to turn and face the wall when the lord or lady of the house passed them.