So hereditary landed aristocracy was only detached from the formal government of the U.K. in like 1999
As part of a Blairite New Labor campaign that used fox hunting of all things as its pretext
That allowed the new \u201csymbolic manipulator\u201d gentry, the ones later to become anti-Corbyn \u201ccentrist dads\u201d, to still think of themselves as upstart underdogs by taking sides against literal hereditary aristocracy
That ALSO placated the hardcore republicans-as-in-end-the-monarchy at a time when Diana had just reenchanted it for another generation at least
(That DID ultimately terminate aristocratic rule thru peaceful legislation, that\u2019s a real, British thing)
New Labour was a Lib/Lab coalition within one disciplined party, that was the conceit
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