LETTERS – Won’t be celebrating

As we expect coverage of events connected with the coming Coronation in many local and national publications, perhaps you would allow an alternative perspective on these events the courtesy of a word?
English republicanism is in a minority. It is however a far more substantial minority, and a more long-standing, honourable and patriotic tradition, than many powerful people and institutions would like to admit.
It is also a view which has apparently grown recently, assisted in part by the chequered past of the current king and the older of his two brothers.
There are in truth people, even in South Holland, not persuaded by elaborate, unnecessarily expensive frolics during an economic recession, bank holidays arranged suspiciously close once again to local elections, cringe-inducing, obsequious media coverage in national publications (some of them not even British-owned), and efforts to buy people off through the obviously and notoriously corrupt honours system.
“God save the King”? Not for us. We won’t be taking part in any related festivities. This is a reasonable position, and we are not to be sneered at for it as so often in the past.
G Kent
Pinchbeck