2 hours ago · Culture · 0 comments

In our last post on this subject, we noted that an article published in My London on 30/3/26 about the removal of the Freedom of the City of London from Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor quoted a City Council spokesperson as saying that: There is no effective legal mechanism available to remove the Freedom in this case. Nonetheless, the City Corporation is listening to the concerns raised and is reflecting on what further steps, if any, may be open to us. We commented as follows: The second sentence in the quote above is revealing. It signals, in the coyest possible terms, that the Council has started to succumb to pressure to change its position on removing the Freedom from Mountbatten-Windsor. But only started. This is a typical Council strategy: it repeatedly defends an indefensible position, then changes its position so gradually it hopes no-one will notice, then takes full credit for adopting the new position, then smears those who forced it to change its position as being the cause of…

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