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<div>REAL State Opening of Parliament, Democracy Village</div>
<div>Queen Tracy, long-term resident of the village, formerly homeless, to deliver Queen's Speech for the People's Parliament</div>
<div>Tues May 25, 11 am Parliament Square</div>
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<div class="h5">God Save Our Gracious Trees. Long live the birds and bees God save our trees send us victorious happy and glorious long to rain over us God save democracy.</div></div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On 24 May 2010 08:58, the democracy village <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:thedemocracyvillage@googlemail.com" target="_blank">thedemocracyvillage@googlemail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Press release from The Democracy Village, Parliament Square</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The REAL State Opening of Parliament, Tuesday, May 25, 2010 from 11 am</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">On Tuesday May 25 at the Democracy Village, Parliament will be formally opened by our monarchs Queen Tracy and her consort King Tarquin, two of the longest-standing residents of the Democracy Village.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Her Royal Majesty will deliver the speech setting out her Government’s programme for the next Parliament. The all-important speech is under embargo till Tuesday morning at 10am, but it is believed that a draft has been leaked (see attached). </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The Ceremonial Programme of Events, produced by Government of the Dead street theatre group, is set out below. All Court Correspondents are advised to take up their positions on the Square in good time since it will be thronged by the assembled multitudes (AKA the London Mob) on this historic occasion.<br>
<br>11 AM. THEIR ROYAL MAJESTIES OPEN PARLIAMENT.<br><br>11.30 AM THE ROYAL SPEECH IS DELIVERED.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">1 PM ROYAL BANQUET IS SERVED.<br><br>2.30 PM. THEIR MAJESTIES ARE RUMBUSTIOUSLY THANKED.<br><br>2.45 PM PARLIAMENT DEBATES THE LEGISLATIVE PROGRAMME.<br><br>4 PM VARIOUS PROCLAMATIONS ARE MADE.<br><br>
6 PM THEIR MAJESTIES GET ROYALLY DRUNK.<br><br>12 MIDNIGHT: IMPLEMENTATION OF THE LAW.</p>
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<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'" lang="EN-US">For further information contact:-</span></p>
<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'" lang="EN-US">Email: <a href="mailto:democracyvillage@gmail.com" target="_blank">democracyvillage@gmail.com</a></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'" lang="EN-US">Tel: Camilla on 07962 889459</span></p>
<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'" lang="EN-US">Chris on 07769 695359</span></p>
<p style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'" lang="EN-US"><a href="http://meltdown.uk.net/" target="_blank">http://meltdown.uk.net</a></span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt 32.2pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Wingdings" lang="EN-US"><span>§<span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span></span></span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'" lang="EN-US">The Democracy Village was set up on May 1, 2010 on Parliament Square to legislate the return of English soldiers from Afghanistan.</span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">QUEEN’S SPEECH</font></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">For the Occasion of the REAL State Opening of Parliament</font></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">Democracy Village, Parliament Square, Tuesday May 25, </font></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">Ceremony commences 11 am</font></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">[bit of a kerfuffle between their imperious royal majesties as they belabour each other with toilet brushes and rolling pins to decide which of their uppity highnesses shall dictate to the masses. The Queen naturally wins. Chants offstage of ‘Ingerland, Ingerland…’. The masses at this point can bang pots, pans and drums, blow horns, whistle whistles, laugh, whoop and clap their hands. The Queen’s top flunkey, Mister Mayhem, calls for silence.]</font></font></i></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">QUEEN: </font></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">Statute the first</font></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">We hereby declare the dissolution of the unelected CON-DEM government. Basically, the rule of the toffs shall cease.</font></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">Statute the second</font></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">The ‘first-past-the-post’ voting system is hereby abolished and replaced by the dictatorship of the proletariat. </font></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">The House of Lords is hereby abolished. MPs are to be paid no more than the minimum wage…Oh, actually, let’s sack them all anyway.</font></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">Statute the fourth</font></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">All our troops shall forthwith and with no further delay return from foreign soil. They will form themselves into armed militias. The officer caste is hereby abolished and decisions will be by consensus. Scotland, Wales and Ireland are hereby accorded their complete and utter independence. Union Jacks, wherever visible, shall be torn into little shreds. English soldiers shall henceforth march under the English flag.</font></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">Statute the fifth</font></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">We hereby reverse the priorities of the Housing List. Ex-service personnel currently sleeping rough across Central London are promoted to the top of the list. Buckingham Palace, centrally located and close to the tube, with nice carpets, magnificent accommodation for dogs large and small, and plenty of green space for allotments, shall henceforth be thrown open to the homeless. Also, the roofs don’t leak. The outgoing royal family shall be rehoused somewhere in Slough after waiting their turn at the bottom of the housing list.</font></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">Statute the sixth</font></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">Bankers’ bonuses are hereby declared illegal. All investment bankers and hedge fund managers are to undergo a period of rehabilitation cleaning the City of London’s sewers. All funds poured into the black hole of bankers’ gambling debts shall be forthwith returned – with interest – to the mob.</font></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">Statute the seventh</font></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">We hereby make a declaration concerning the deficit. England has no intention whatsoever of paying back to the bankers the so-called ‘deficit’. They can go and take a running jump. All banks are hereby nationalised and merged into the People’s Bank. Your nearest branch is your local Post Office.</font></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3">Turbo-capitalism is now, forthwith and without further delay abolished. We hereby inaugurate Slow Time, to be marked by the waxing and waning of the moon. For the two weeks of waxing moon, all workers shall be on strike. Henceforth, capitalist activities are permitted only during waning moon. Slow Time shall ensure all our subjects </font><span style="COLOR: #221e1f; FONT-SIZE: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Minion Pro'">can Reclaim Time – time for play, gardening, children, dancing, sex and life. </span></font></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #221e1f; FONT-SIZE: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Minion Pro'"><font face="Times New Roman">Statue the ninth</font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #221e1f; FONT-SIZE: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Minion Pro'"><font face="Times New Roman">English youth are hereby committed to a period of national service class consciousness training during which they must wear hoodies and make v-signs at the toffs. The elderly shall be randomly armed with AK47s and automatic pistols to ensure their health and safety. (We express our gratitude to the Court Jester Mark Thomas, esq., from whom we have nicked this idea).</font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #221e1f; FONT-SIZE: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Minion Pro'"><font face="Times New Roman">Statute the tenth</font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #221e1f; FONT-SIZE: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Minion Pro'"><font face="Times New Roman">We hereby declare England’s withdrawal from the European Union. We are no longer controlled by any foreign hand. We revoke all partnerships and treaties entered into by the previous regime. Nevertheless and notwithstanding, our revolution knows no borders. We extend solidarity to the people of Greece, and to any country prepared to stand up for its freedom. Towards a World Federation of Free Nations under the Rainbow Flag!</font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #221e1f; FONT-SIZE: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Minion Pro'"><font face="Times New Roman">Statute the eleventh</font></span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #221e1f; FONT-SIZE: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Minion Pro'"><font face="Times New Roman">The overriding priority of said World Federation of Free Nations is the current Climate Emergency. England’s immediate contribution to combat climate change is the nationalisation of public transport. Rail and coach travel shall be free. Domestic flights shall be cancelled. Free rollerblades shall be available to all, especially if you happen to be young and pretty. As far as Air Traffic control is concerned, helium balloons shall have priority over jet planes. Volcanoes of all neighbouring countries are urged to increased productivity.</font></span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #221e1f; FONT-SIZE: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Minion Pro'"><font face="Times New Roman">The sin of property we do disdain. No man has the right to buy and sell the earth for private gain.</font></span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="COLOR: #221e1f; FONT-SIZE: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Minion Pro'"><font face="Times New Roman">Concerning the National Anthem, we hereby declare that nobody needs to ‘Save the Queen’, least of all God. Therefore and forthwith God Save the Queen is no longer the national anthem. It is hereby replaced by The Diggers Song or alternatively Mark's one. All now stand for the new national anthem…!</font></span></p>
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