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The government is considering introducing legislation to remove Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor from the line of royal succession.

Defence Minister Luke Pollard told the BBC the move - which would prevent Andrew from ever becoming King - was the "right thing to do," regardless of the outcome of the police investigation.

Currently Andrew, the King's brother, remains eighth in line to the throne despite being stripped of his titles, including "prince", last October amid pressure over his ties to paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein.

On Thursday evening, Andrew was released under investigation 11 hours after his arrest on suspicion of misconduct in public office. He has consistently and strenuously denied any wrongdoing.

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[–] MBech@feddit.dk 52 points 5 hours ago (5 children)

The fact that they think making andrew a simple peasent like the rest of us, is an appropriate punishment for raping children, either tells us a lot about how they see us regular people, or a lot about how much they care about children being raped.

[–] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 1 points 54 seconds ago

You know that the government doesn't conduct criminal investigations?

[–] NABDad@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Everything I've read about this says that the misconduct in question was sharing state secrets with Epstein.

The child raping doesn't appear to be concerning them.

[–] Avicenna@programming.dev 2 points 12 minutes ago

Nevertheless, whistleblowers spend their whole life being hunted down by goverments for exposing state secrets that reveal crimes.

[–] wheezy@lemmy.ml 1 points 43 minutes ago* (last edited 40 minutes ago)

God damn. Comment hit hard. No notes. I just wish the people in the US realized that even the monarchs of Britain are being "punished" more than the equivalent rulers of our similar class structures that exist in modern day with just different names. Our "Epstein class" (capitalist class) have less punishment than modern day monarchs.

The punishment of the monarchs is to become a rich capitalist with no titles. The punishment of the capitalist is nothing.

[–] ericatty@infosec.pub 21 points 3 hours ago

I'm not from the UK or living there. So grain of salt and all... But I read this not so much as a punishment, but closing a loophole so he can never ever be in a position of royal power or benefits. And it would hold even if he wins in court.

If we in the US had closed some loopholes 2021-24, we would be at least 50% less fucked.

And maybe 90% less if we'd done it after Nixon.

It's not enough. But it's not nothing.

[–] cynar@lemmy.world 5 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Different parts of the government. Charles has all but kicked him out of the royals themselves. This would just be finishing the job.

Neither group has any real say in prosecution etc. This is just an additional ceremonial "Fuck you for making us look bad!"

[–] NihilsineNefas@slrpnk.net 4 points 2 hours ago

"They expect one of us in the wreckage, brother"