I'm not going to be pledging my allegiance to King Charles during his coronation on Sunday night.

What a cringe of an idea.

And what a weird misstep from the palace. Because everything else in the coronation seems pretty on point with modern times.

It's a cost of living crisis so they're going small for the coronation. They've got diversity, they’ve got a black baroness and heaps of women participating, then they go and do something weird like this. 

By the way, in case you haven’t caught up on this, all of King Charles’ subjects in the UK and in realms around the world (which includes us by the way) are invited to participate in a moment during the coronation.

Where we will all, from the comfort of our living rooms or bedrooms, say out loud: “I swear that I will pay true allegiance to your majesty, and to your heirs and successors according to law. So help me God”.

As if you’re pledging your allegiance to Andrew and Harry.  

Problem with this though, is that it could backfire and cause a lot of people to really think about whether they support the monarchy. 

Because a lot of people just accept the monarchy in a passive way. As in: “They’re there, they don’t require anything, so just leave it”.

But now, Charles is turning it into something active, where you actually have to think about whether you want to pledge your allegiance.

He's basically rubbing your face in the fact that he’s the big man living a flash life and you’re a no one in New Zealand. In your pyjamas, in the middle of the night, just pledging your allegiance as his subject.

No, I'm not gonna play that game with King Charles.

This has actually just reminded me of exactly why I am a republican. Because I don’t want to have to pledge allegiance to a man who hasn't earned his job. He's just there because he was born into it.

And I really don’t like the fact that he thinks he can ask us to.  

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