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March 23rd, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda A cross-party group of MPs led by Foreign Office aide Tobias Ellwood and supported by cabinet ministers and senior members of the three main parties is calling on the House of Commons Commission, which runs the Commons, to approve renaming London’s best-known attraction, the Big Ben tower, into the Elizabeth Tower.
“I can’t think of a greater tribute for Parliament to bestow on Her Majesty than the naming of such a landmark as the Clock Tower. If we get the support I hope we will, I would like to see a formal announcement or a ceremony taking place on June 2,” Ellwood said.
A similar tribute was made to Queen Victoria on the occasion of her diamond jubilee in 1860 when Commoners renamed the western tower of the Palace of Westminster, originally called the King’s Tower, into the Victoria Tower.
Mirroring their action raises speculations that Queen Elizabeth wields the same political influence Queen Victoria enjoyed – as reflected in her biographies including in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography – or at least the MPs are as much willing to bow to the Queen as it was the unspoken norm more than a century ago.
Such a scenario puts a big question mark next to the democracy Britain claims to be because the MPs’ move as the representatives of the British public suggests ‘all’ Britons support the continuation of monarchy in their country, not to mention, implying the queen wields far greater political leverage than British politicians tend to acknowledge.
Raising the status of the sovereign in Britain to the position Queen Victoria had back in the 19th century also risks encouraging heir apparent Prince Charles, who has been repeatedly accused of interference in state affairs, to widen his grip on politics to ensure he has an unspoken executive king position when he will succeed to the throne.
Prince Charles has been accused over the recent years with meddling in urban planning projects including the Chelsea Barracks while former PM Tony Blair’s spin doctor Alistair Campbell disclosed in his diary that Blair kept complaining about Charles for sending ministers notes on major policy areas, effectively trying to “challenge” and “influence” them including on genetically modified food and Lords reform.
In a high-profile revelation, The Mail on Sunday reported back in July 2011 that the Prince of Wales had upgraded his interference from sending letters to summoning ministers to his residence, Clarence House.
The report said Charles had called at least nine senior members of the government including Chancellor George Osborne and Education Secretary Michael Gove to his London residence for secret discussion of his “pet subjects” over a ten-month period.
That leaves one wondering whether Charles would have also one of the Westminster Palace towers to his name when he ascends to the throne.
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