IT should come as no surprise to Malcolm Char­nock (Letters, March 16) to see 'discourteous' MPs slinking from the House before the conclusion of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee debate. There's much betrayal around Westminster, and it's been around for some time.

And what's also around is a welter of internet websites which have popped up to maximise investors' returns on 'Jubilee year' ... the year of living luxuriously, the year when the Queen celebrates 60 years as a monarch.

The Oxford Dictionary defines a monarch as 'a sovereign head of state especially a king queen or emperor'. The same dictionary defines 'sovereign' as 'a supreme ruler, especially a monarch'.

Without wishing to suggest that Queen Elizabeth II has been anything other than the greatest blessing to us all, it's worth considering whether she has actually behaved, or been allowed to behave, like a monarch for the last 60 years.

In the Coronation ceremony of June 2, 1953, the first oath the Queen took on the day she described as 'the proudest day of her life' was to solemnly promise and swear to govern the Peoples of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, according to their respective laws and customs. And her second oath was to maintain, to the utmost of her power, the Laws of God and the true profession of the Gospel.

Since 1952 The Queen has given Royal Assent to more than 3,500 Acts of Parliament. So what, you might say... after all, her ministers are there to advise her. But actually, so everything!

Since 1972, Parliament has treasonably surrendered the supremacy of the peoples' sovereignty to an alien foreign power. It has unlawfully, and conspiratorially, allowed the Constitution and the Crown to be subjugated to the power of the European Union.

And so by giving her assent to the various European Union 'reforming' Treaties, which oppose the laws and customs of this country, the Queen, knowingly or unknowingly, has broken her Coronation Oath, an oath which was Holy because it was sworn on The Bible, and makes her answerable only to God.

And if the EU is not just a totalitarian state in the making, but an atheistic state to boot, which is determined to destroy the freedom of the individual and the nation state, you might ask yourself whether the Queen, according to her second oath has used, or been allowed to use, 'the utmost of her power to maintain the Laws of God and the true profession of the Gospel'.

Either way, the next time you catch a Westminster politician queuing up to bask in the reflected glory of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee ask them to whom they think they owe their allegiance. Because when they take their seat in Parliament they 'swear by Almighty God (or make a solemn affirmation) that they will be faithful and bear true allegiance to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, her heirs and successors, according to law.'

Westminster politicians who witter on about reforming the House of Lords or saving the Union without first addressing the monarchy's future and our relationship with the EU and the Commonwealth are ignorant of history. And by failing to debate a vision of how a fractured Britain might be mended, so as not merely to survive but thrive as an independent nation state, the same culprits are guilty of gross negligence.

Indeed, that our political elite should even entertain the idea that this sceptred isle of ours, this cradle of freedom, this refuge for the oppressed should be reduced, without debate, to the status of an offshore bourse is nothing short of treason.

'These are the times that try men's souls,' wrote Thomas Paine in Common Sense, the lifeline to American independence. He followed it with The Crisis, written at George Washington's request to remind the colonists that the struggle for independence was a struggle between good and evil.

For Britons' souls today, times are every bit as trying. But if we wish to be free of the yoke of EU serfdom, an understanding of the struggle involved is where a revolution in our thinking must begin.

Because when we know that 'more and more people feel in despair, disengaged, disenfranchised and are potentially disloyal than for a very long time,' we have to ask ourselves what kind of people we have become, what we have failed to do, and what we must now do to save our country.

Ours is a 'country' which is currently 'run' by self-serving coalition partners who, when they're not arranging to obliterate overnight eight centuries of marriage law, are mesmerised by mutual admiration and intoxicated with worldly power.

In 1912 Titanic struck an iceberg and in 1914 'the lights went out all over Europe' whilst the captains of our ship of state were dozing on the quarter deck... in 1939 there was no 'peace in our time' whilst our upper class appeasers were sleeping with the enemy... in 2012 our coalition chauffeurs need, for all our sakes, to sober up fast before we get taken off the road to salvation.

'For what shall it profit a man if he gain the whole world yet suffer the loss of his soul.'

– John Muir, Newnham.