Posted June 8, 200619 yr What do you think of the monarchy. Should the Queen stand down and let Prince Charles takeover, or should they leave the country. Personally we could do without the monarchy
June 8, 200619 yr Abolish them when dear old Lizzie dies, I have a lot of admiration for the queen but the rest of them should be put against a wall and shot, Phil the greek excepted as he is amusing oh and Zara Phillips as she is sexy as **** :wub: The monarchy is an ancient out dated concept and its time it was dumped after the queen dies
June 8, 200619 yr Phil the greek excepted as he is amusing Nah, Phil should be buried with her.. He's a tw@t, a racist old dinosaur who has no place in 21st Century Britain... :puke2:
June 8, 200619 yr Nah, Phil should be buried with her.. He's a tw@t, a racist old dinosaur who has no place in 21st Century Britain... :puke2: I disagree with a lot of his views and he is a kinda rich version of Alf Garnett but I admire him not having time for convention and political correctness
June 8, 200619 yr If they didn't attract so many tourists then it would prbably be best to get rid but I'm not so sure. Though they probably get more money than the tourism brings anyway :puke2:
June 8, 200619 yr I disagree with a lot of his views and he is a kinda rich version of Alf Garnett but I admire him not having time for convention and political correctness Erm, no, Alf Garnett was a fictional character who was constantly undermined within the script, which totally negated his views, Phil is unfortunately all too real.....
June 8, 200619 yr If they didn't attract so many tourists then it would prbably be best to get rid but I'm not so sure. Though they probably get more money than the tourism brings anyway :puke2: Well, nobody said 'burn down the buildings', so of course they'd get tourists. In fact if we got rid of the royals and totally threw open the palaces to the tourists, the country would probably get even more tourists. Look at Versailles Palace in France, gets a hell of a lot more tourists than Buckinham Palace, AND the French have the added bonus of not having a bunch of leeching Royal scum to put up with....
June 8, 200619 yr Actually we need the monarchy as the Queen is the only person who can stop the country turning into a police state.
June 8, 200619 yr Actually we need the monarchy as the Queen is the only person who can stop the country turning into a police state. The queen is nothing more than a figurehead now though, she is politically powerless Her job is to wine and dine ruthless dictators with appalling human rights records on state visits and to open fetes and wine and dine rich arabs on Britannia at middle eastern trade fares where we are looking to sell missiles, warplanes and chemical weapons to any takers Politically she is impotent
June 8, 200619 yr The queen is nothing more than a figurehead now though, she is politically powerless Her job is to wine and dine ruthless dictators with appalling human rights records on state visits and to open fetes and wine and dine rich arabs on Britannia at middle eastern trade fares where we are looking to sell missiles, warplanes and chemical weapons to any takers Politically she is impotent That pretty much sums it up....
June 8, 200619 yr The queen is nothing more than a figurehead now though, she is politically powerless Her job is to wine and dine ruthless dictators with appalling human rights records on state visits and to open fetes and wine and dine rich arabs on Britannia at middle eastern trade fares where we are looking to sell missiles, warplanes and chemical weapons to any takers Politically she is impotent When i watched a programme about her duties when it was her birthday it said that if the government got too out of hand the monarchy can over rule them. The english armed forces belongs to her not the government, just cos they tell where the troops go doesn't mean they have complete control, the queen does.
June 8, 200619 yr Maybe they should do a Royal reality show where you get,some sex mad types, some loonies, a chav, a druggie, a posh bird, etc etc could be quite amusing. Wait a minute We've already got one living in Buck house :lol:
June 8, 200619 yr I wish every last one of them would leave the country pronto. I can't stand the whole concept of Royalty. I'm sorry but I refuse to bow and scrape to anyone just because through an accident of birth he/she is deemed 'better' than me. In my mind 'Royalty' should have disappeared centuries ago. It has no place in modern democracy.
June 8, 200619 yr It will always have it's place i think for the reason i've said above. We don't want a modern Hitler ruling our country. The people who can stop that happening is the monarchy. The whole thing about them being better than us cos they're born into that family is tosh though, i disagree with that, but we do still need a monarch.
June 8, 200619 yr I can see both sides to this discusssion! For: Some of the members of the Royal Family work damn hard on behalf of this country. I think the Queen deserves respect, she has given up a life of her own to be the head of state. yes, she gets to live in fabulous luxury, but I wouldnt swap all the perks for having what is, in effect, a totally transparent life. The Royal family also attract tourists (I see Scott's point about Versailles and France) and the presence of them cannot be replaced by an empty house full of memories. They alos represent a national identity (good ort bad, thats up to the individual). Against: They take some of my tax, and I need the money myself! :lol:
June 8, 200619 yr I can see both sides to this discusssion! For: Some of the members of the Royal Family work damn hard on behalf of this country. I think the Queen deserves respect, she has given up a life of her own to be the head of state. yes, she gets to live in fabulous luxury, but I wouldnt swap all the perks for having what is, in effect, a totally transparent life. The Royal family also attract tourists (I see Scott's point about Versailles and France) and the presence of them cannot be replaced by an empty house full of memories. They alos represent a national identity (good ort bad, thats up to the individual). Against: They take some of my tax, and I need the money myself! :lol: I don't understand this myth well a myth in my opinion anyways that the royal family bring in tourists, I have never understood that claim 1) If tourists take in royal palaces they do so as PART of a general tour of London 2) They would still watch trooping of the colour and changing of the guard and tour Buck House even if there was no royal family 3) The chances of any tourist actually seeing or meeting any member of the royal family on their vacation are as likely as me meeting Elvis 4) The royal family spend summer at Sandringham and that is not a tourist hotspot, if people came all this way to see the queen surely they would go to Sandringham and wait by the gates While I am sure royal buildings and ceremonies are part of the attraction of a trip to London I don't think the royal family itself would make any difference to the figures and if Bernard Manning and his wife were living in Buck House and not the Queen the tourist figures would not go down
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