She's served her country for an incredibly long time, I don't love her as such my I have a massive amount of respect for anyone who serves there country for so long, in any role, by that an accountant, an advisor or a constitutional monarch, as proven by statistics constitutional monarchs are some of the most stable and democratic countries.People who 'love' the queen. Please talk me through exactly why you love her? What has she ever done for you to deserve your love? She wouldn't piss on you if you were on fire. I honestly don't get it, so please explain to me why she is deserving of your love?
She has done all sorts of things over her reign, most of which we probably don't know about but let's go through some of them shall we: met and advised every Prime Minister with experience she's got her advice is obviously very important, organised mass charity fundraisers, promoted charities' and organisations and she's been a symbol of hope and stability.
The queen being advised is purely symbolic, she will in effect rubber stamp whatever the ruling PM says.This reminds me of The Stonecutters episode of The Simpsons when Homer is asked what the organisation was about and why he wanted to join so eagerly in admiration of them when he had no idea what it was about.
I agree with @BarryZola on this one. Since not bowing down to the queen seems to be so frowned upon, if me, him and @rob666 suddenly stop posting, you'll know we've been whisked away in black land rovers in the dead of night and sent to the Tower.
I find patriotism pointless (I'm actually quite ashamed of my country of birth in many ways, particularly at the moment) and I just don't get all this weird worship of some billionaire bunch who "rule" over us as some sort of superior beings? Something extremely unsettling and sinister about it all, especially since no one has ever been able to give me a single decent explanation for it and why often opposing media outlets are so in on it all as well? It's quite disturbing actually.
I ensured I was out of the country. Sadly though, the UK Boarder force at Bristol airport had no reason to deny my re-entry. And it was raining.
Bob Geldoff has advised Prime Minister's and organised mass charity events. He doesn't get a Jubilee or his face on a tenner.
This is my position exactly, I can't see a presidential system working and most presidential systems are fairly politically unstable, there are exceptions of course. As for the Royals privilege, it's true they are very rich however they are imprisoned, they aren't free, they can't say and do what they want, it's not a job I'd want and I don't think most people would either. They are serving the country by putting up with that, sure they can have luxurious food and items but they can't do whatever they want with there cash.I don’t think I am instinctively a royalist, but I am massively in favour of keeping the current system. I am never quite sure how much I buy into ‘immense privilege’ levelled at the royal family, when people talk about privilege in the financial sense, it typically opens up opportunities for you to do whatever you want – but the royal family seems to be the opposite ? You’re essentially imprisoned by your privilege, which sounds pretty grim to me.
When politics is going nuts (when isn’t it, these days?) I do like the fact that there is a fairly benign steadying presence in the monarch. I think you need something above the Prime Minister, but I am yet to be convinced that a president would be a winner. More elected politicians, what could go wrong.
That was exactly what I was referring to, as well as his general involvement with Epstein on the whole… I was looking for a more subtle way to put it.Prince Andrews antics...do we mean the rape of an underage young woman?
Another recent angle of one rule for them...
The majority of people who support the monarchy do not worship it, for the Queen I have massive respect, for certain other members of the family I have decent respect.I don't get why people worship the royal family. They're just people born into money who couldn't care less about anybody in the real world.
constitutional monarchies are statistically more democratic and stable than republics, that's simple fact. It's possible to make the UK a federal system (which I think we have both agreed on in the past although I may be mistaken?) without the need for a republic. I dislike the idea of a republic because I simply don't trust the system, there are few republics system's I would like in the UK and I don't have confidence in that the British electorate would appreciate such systems.Regarding the alternatives, I don't see any problems with a republic system as long as that's also upgraded from the FPTP system too while we're at it.
I get the sentiment of this, and if it were completely true I would agree. The monarchy is funded in what is quite a complicated system, however almost all of there property is controlled by the government and not the royal family themselves. Further to this it has been shown that the Monarchy actually make a profit, mainly due to tourism attractions. My position is that there needs to be some changes in terms of the wealth the royal family have though, I would prefer a smaller personal allowance for each member of the family and a government controlled system for the households, where perhaps a minister makes the decisions on where to spend the money. I agree in slimming down the Royal Family so that it is cheaper to run, which of course will lead to larger profits which can be used to help with this sort of thing.When there's people living on the streets and people unable to pay to feed their kids I don't get why we should pay for the upkeep of this archaic system.