The British Monarchy

[BrianW]

If Hitler had the royals' PR in this country, he'd be popular too.

I find the whole thing amazing, but then I'm not into the worship of mortals so it's not surprising I don't 'get it. I also find it incomprehensible that people are addicted to Coronation Street.

 

[BobKowalski]

I like them, I think they do a great job and bring in more money to the country than they cost.

We can have the best of both worlds. They can have a palace or two and do the whole pageantry guff for the tourists. We can stop then stiffing the taxpayer for millions.

The UK is not, and should not be, a semi-feudal society.

 

[Trickyblues]

I like them, I think they do a great job and bring in more money to the country than they cost.

That’s not true.

 

[Churchlawtonblue]

That’s not true.

I believe it is based on what I have read over the years.

 

[Churchlawtonblue]

If Hitler had the royals' PR in this country, he'd be popular too.

I find the whole thing amazing, but then I'm not into the worship of mortals so it's not surprising I don't 'get it. I also find it incomprehensible that people are addicted to Coronation Street.

You mentioned worship , not me. I just said I liked them. I bet whatever you want you like people you haven't met!

 

[BrianW]

Versailles (no royals) gets far more visitors than Windsor.

In fact, if we had no royals we could let people roam about the whole of Windsor, as there would no longer be 'security reasons' for keeping parts of it off limits.

Tourists who come here with royals in mind are mostly interested in the history - which equates to the buildings. Not many come over in expectation of meeting the King, unless they are heads of state.

Apart from all that, I don't see that our constitutional arrangements should include a concern for what pleases foreign tourists. That really is 'cart before the horse'. After all, perhaps the tourists would like us all to wear smocks, carry pitchforks and walk about with a straw in our mouths. We are not here to be a theme park.

 

[heslops barnet]

I like them, I think they do a great job and bring in more money to the country than they cost.

 

[urban genie]

Now I wonder with it reveled they practically own liverpool do the red s ouse have to start singing GStK.


personally we should all boo that shitshow of an anthem and sing something else

 

[Trickyblues]

I believe it is based on what I have read over the years.

Where have you read it?

 

[johnny crossan]

I think for a long time the social contract meant people were previously much better disposed towards the aristocracy and those that ran the country.

There will always be a top, middle and bottom in a human society. It’s inevitable. Even if it’s founded entirely on happenstance.

But once those at the top start taking the piss, it eventually fragments. People will eventually say ‘fuck this as a way to order a society.’

The rich and the powerful need to be very careful imo.

They certainly do. Constitutional monarchies in the UK and Scandinavia have protected democratic institutions in those countries pretty well over the past two centuries, less so in Italy and Spain, but the power they deny is crucially important.