Vive la République!

 
Democracy in the UK is a sham.
 
Why are our so-called 'Royal' family exempt from suffrage?
 
Why does our House of Lords perpetuate the feudal idea of 'hereditary' peers?
 
Why is the anachronism of Church of England bishops sitting in the Upper House allowed to persist?
 
I'm open to some form of modifying institution to overlook the business of the House of Commons (maybe including 'life' peers as is the case currently), but in 21st century Britain, I believe the concept of eligibility to the corridors of power based upon one's birth or religion is an insult.
 
And yes, I know that as a constitutional monarchy, the House of Windsor wields no 'real' power, but as Russia's justified complaints over the recent comments by Charles prove, they are seen by others to be in a position of such.
 
Rant over.
 
 
 

I hear you...
 
 
Likewise, it's quite disturbing to see this sycophant's apparent dream of regressing Canadians to their state of loyal subjects of her majesty.
 

 
 
Oh how we're wishing (and working hard) for the green card.

SteveStrummerUK
I believe the concept of eligibility to the corridors of power based upon one's birth or religion is an insult.
 

I'd be willing to trade some of your insults in the corridors of power for ours. 

 
This is what should offend people.

Write a song about it. Some examples:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdeYfV4TD1U
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gp5JCrSXkJY


Read a strange story, but belief is another subject.
http://curiouscosmos.com/community/threads/i-am-from-2036.4/
 
not original thread: (a re-construction)
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/24232098/Post%20to%20Post%20I%20am%20from%202036.htm
 
still not but from original people.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/24232098/Parallel%20Universe.mht
 
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/24232098/Topics%20Limited%20to%2011%20Pages.htm
http://www.timetravelinstitute.com/threads/re-print-time-travel-paradoxes-timetravel-0-thread-uncorrupted.6595/
 
Have Sex!
Bang your head against a wall!
 
I think writing a song may be the best idea, and perhaps don't believe everything you read.
Affordable Care - so you can have surgery to get the foot out of your bun!
 
Also it has been discussed to Death.
And Death is what we are talking about here, and an appropriate subject for a song.
Love - what is that?
Death - yes, death!
Have some humor also.

 Song I have to still do over.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRv48PKv16c
also in my signature and older since I taken everything down and put some back up.
Death, well, back to the cave.
And let us all "crap"! I mean say "crap".
 
 
 

Same thing in the US.
 
The difference is that you put your rich blokes into parliament and make them show up and vote.
 
We let ours hire representatives to do their work in Congress while they sail their yachts.

I'm loathe to post on this thread, for fear of being branded 'a Royalist'. Which I'm not.
 
Seems to me though, that a powerless institution might as well be suffrage free.
 
As far as the cost of the monarchy goes, things have changed since 2012 with the introduction of 'the Sovereign Grant', it's worth checking out.

craigb
Royalist!!!
 

On somewhat of a different note, the school I attended to back home was called Royal College (British system) and we were known as "Royalists" (not in the same sense as above though).

The press sure seems to go overboard with the Royals though...
 

craigb
Royalist!!!
 

 
 
I like, admire and have much respect for The Queen. There was a picture of her on the wall in my first classroom at primary school, that's one of my earliest memories..she's been The Queen all my life.
 
This provides continuity, and reinforces part of what I feel makes me English. The England I grew up in is disappearing rapidly in a cultural sense, so I tend to cling onto touchstones like Her Maj.
 
When she 'appoints' a Prime Minister for example, to me, that's The State made flesh..she is 'us'.
 
The rest of them...... but all in all, they seem to do a reasonable job of 'being The Royal Family'