HERE we go again — another royal birth is ‘imminent’.

We’ll all shortly be out on the streets again with tears of joy, hugging strangers, splashing money on souvenirs, organising street parties, pubs packed out with drinkers toasting the new royal baby, others dutifully waving their dusty Union Jacks, jumping for joy — get the picture?

At least that’s what the mainstream press would have us believe!

One national tourist board boldly claimed that ‘England is in a frenzy’ over the birth of Prince George.

However, several YouGov surveys reported at the time that 53 per cent of British adults were not interested in the birth whatsoever!

Baby Talk is an apt name for much of the drivel spoken and written in the UK about the Royal Family.

Not long after George’s birth, one newspaper declared Prince George (barely aged two months!), ‘the most influential person in London’.

Quite a feat for someone who had yet to utter his first word!

One newspaper gushed that ‘Prince George is our greatest tourist attraction’.

I ask you: How is a baby supposed to function as a tourist attraction?

Are tourists attracted to London in the hope of spotting the baby in a London cafe, shop, or public space?

Or do they line up outside Buck Palace to marvel at several pounds of wrinkles as they pass by?

One magazine went so far as to write nine pages of utter drivel about the prince’s christening and the clothes he wore.

It went on to claim the baby had ‘united the royals with the commoners’.

It strikes me that several of these publications are living in a London bubble — having a fantasy version of the rest of the UK where cheerful working class people doff their hats or curtsey to the royals and cheer as they drive by as their subjects queue up outside the ever-increasing food banks.

Isn’t it about time that the mainstream parties called for a serious debate on the monarchy’s future?

The institution is an aberration in the 21st century.

JEFF ADAMS Bloomsbury Road Swindon