is the queen a 'fascist regime'?

Question

and how can the queen be a 'regime' anyway?

I thought a regime was a political system, so the 'monarchy' can be a fascist regime but not the queen per se.

Or am I being too ana.l about this?

Answer 1

You are analysing the words of the Sex Pistols "song", "God Save the Queen"

The words are
God save the Queen,
the fascist regime.

The grammar is faultless, having a comma, denoting two clauses. Sid Vicious did not sing the comma, though.

Answer 2

You're talking about the song "No Future" right?

The song goes:

"God save the queen.
Her fascist regime.
They made you a moron
Potential H-bomb"

It's not saying the queen is a fascist reigime. It's saying the regime the Queen is a figurehead of is fascitst. Back then it was quite shocking to compare the establisment to Hitler's Germany, but now not a day goes by without some trite parallell between an disliked point of view and that period of history.

Answer 3

I dont think we should bother to analyse Sex Pistols lyrics too much !!! Dont get me wrong I love the pistols and have done since 76 but they were intended to shock & shake the establishment so they said what they had to and their lyrics are inflammatory but hardly intellectual. Is it not a case therefore that Regime rhymes with Queen and sounds ace in the song cause it can be snarled & spat out. Alternatively Johnny could have meant two seperate things - 1. 'the queen' - and 2. 'the fascist regime'. The two do not necessarily need to follow together within the context of the lyric. God save the queen could be a statement on its own (as the track title). And the second line - 'the fascist regime' joins to 'they made you a moron'. Damn, I'm thinking about this too much. So it could be read as refering to the monarchy or government or whatever. No Future. Yeah right.

Answer 4

The line is, God save the queen, the fascist regime, so the regime refers to the monarchy, not the old hag herself.

Answer 5

How can the queen be a fascist regime when she has no real powers of her own. She is merely a figurehead - a pointless anachronism and it's way past the time when that particular family were put out to pasture!!

Answer 6

I agree, the Queen cannot be a regime on her own. I have never understood why we have the monrachy anyway and what she's there for. Its all a little bit too twee and stiff upper lip for me. I think we just have the monarchy for the sake of the fact we have had one in power always. they have no real say anymore

Answer 7

No the Queen is a monarch. She has nothing to do with "fascism"

Johnny Rotten just used "Queen" to rhyme with "Regime" (loosely)

He also made "Antichrist" rhyme with "Anarchist".

Nuff said

Also george I - how can the Queen be a "bloody kraut" when she was born here and so were her parents and their parents and their parents and their parents. You have to go back about 200 years to find her German ancestry. That doesn't make her a "kraut" anymore than that makes me "Irish" (my great great grandparents came to Wales in 1860) . . .

Answer 8

The Queen is merely a figure head and has no influence upon the political structure of the UK.

Answer 9

the queen is an anachronism rather than a facist, seeeing as she has no power she can't really be considered to be facist.
A Monarchy is autocratic rather than facist.

Answer 10

Sure, why not call her a fascist? I mean, every other world leader at some point is being labeled that, especially when they do the difficult or unpopular things.