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The British monarchy
Jane:
What do you think of the British monarchy? Is it an outdated institution? How does it combine with democracy? Wouldn`t Britain be better off without it?
Kaleidoscope_Eyes:
Although I loved studying about the British monarchy at school, I think it's loosing its vlaue over the years. I mean , we are in the democracy age, I dont see why the monarchy should "rule" [not that they do it really]. By all means, keep the monarchy as a memory and a peice of a history, but let the "demos" rule.
Geoff:
I'm a Tory softy: I'm fine with the monarchy; they seem to be an interesting lot who perform their ceremonial role well. But of course I'm not paying for it.
Joost:
Not really an opinion about the British monarchy in particular...
But I am against the concept of a monarchy. Our Dutch queen really just has a purely ceremonial function nowadays so she really is pretty much 'harmless'. But... Officially she still has the right to veto any decision the government makes. Of course she'd have a HUGE problem if she'd actually use that right... But still, it's not very democratic. And besides that, our royal family costs 113,9 million euros of our tax money per year, even though our queen Beatrix has an estimated fortune of 2,5 billion euros...
Kevin:
Gawd bless Her Magesty!
Outdated maybe, but consider the revolutions, civil wars, fascists, communists, dictators and absolute-monarchists that that have stalked the history of almost every other nation* these past 300 odd years and we're obviously doing something right.
(* except the Scandies and the Lowlanders. But wait, aren't they also constitutional monarchies?? )
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