Apathy Sketchpad

The law that forces the eldest daughter of a monarch to make way for her younger brother in the succession could be abolished under new equality legislation. Ministers want to give women equal rights to succeed the throne, ending the rule of primogeniture set down under the provisions of the 1701 Act of Settlement.

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Vera Baird, the Solicitor General tasked with helping to steer the new equality bill through the Commons, said that the right of males to succeed ahead of their older sisters was “unfair” and “a load of rubbish”.

It’s worth pointing out, though, that Baird may be slightly mental, because…

She added: “I have always thought that what we have to do with the Royal family is integrate them as far as possible into the human race.”

Mrs Baird also wants to repeal the law that bans the heir to the throne from marrying a Catholic. She said: “The ban on marrying Catholics should be abolished too, because that is discriminatory.”

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Liberal Democrat equality spokeswoman Lynne Featherstone… said that she believed the reform would receive cross-party support. “We can’t have a law that is meant to fight Government discrimination and injustice and allow a blatantly sexist law on Royal succession to continue,” she said.

These are people who can arbitrarily pardon criminals, dismiss governments, command the army, and run our Established Christian church whose ministers get a free say in the running of the country on the basis that they were born into the right family, and you’re concerned that that might be sexist?!

This country is sodding mental.