If new labour get there way with us being part of the united states of Europe or america it will be the slippery slope to a republic we need the monarchy it defines who we are as a nation and a people. what do you brits think?
2007-01-18 23:59:38 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Royalty
Absolutely!
I'm a Royalist and a Patriot. I'm proud to be British and serve in the ROYAL Air Force, not the republic Air Force. God Save The Queen!
Some people don't like this as the Queen seems to do nothing. Not true, She is the Figurehead of our Nation, and She does loads of Charity work.
She is our Monarch and part of the reason I joined the Military (It may sound cheesy to some, but I really did join up for Queen and Country!)
2007-01-19 00:12:44 · answer #1 · answered by genghis41f 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Not a Brit, but wanted to tell you... I have always enjoyed the monarchy. This is really important to your tourism.
Boy, I'd hate to see all that rich tradition thrown in the dust.
The Queen is a lovely lady. She's been through an awful lot in the past few years, especially. I saw the Queen and Phillip once, many years ago. They rode in an open carriage in a parade in a Canadian city near ours. (Never mind that someone could easily have pointed a gun at her.) I was so close, I could have reached out and touched her. Nobody seemed to be checking the people for possible weapons or anything. I was thrilled to just see her.
2007-01-20 16:05:37 · answer #2 · answered by kiwi 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sorry, I am not a royalist. If they make it a public holiday for mourning when she dies, I would have to go to work.
I would say that to a great extent the Queen does a reasonable job as an ambassador for England and brings in the tourists. What annoys me is the rest of the 'hangers on.' Anne is quiet and does her bit - Charles and Camilla are loud and a joke (and really what part did they have to play in the deaths of Dianna and Dodi?) - and when you get down to the lesser mortals, they take their share and don't do much apart from cost money.
Andrew - well, what happened to him and Fergie? Maybe he has taken a leaf out of Anne's book and just got on with his life. As for Edward - is he for real? I must be careful, could be treasonous!
Okay - so you can keep the Queen - just get rid of the rest of them, will you? Her majesty is probably just a scavenger and has been given that right for a long time - it's the rest of them that are the parasites.
2007-01-20 08:19:46 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The British Monarchy has been here for over a thousand years. It will take more than the petty comments from a few ne'er do wells to overthrow it.
Shove any notion of a republic, Britain and Monarchy go hand in hand, always have, always will.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN.
2007-01-19 18:21:33 · answer #4 · answered by Raymo 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I couldn't agree more the Royal family are not only an important figurehead of the country. They give us something to believe in. A national symbol. They bring in millions in tourism and create lots of jobs. IMHO the Queen should be in charge of the country!
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!
Frodette Baggins- Her Majesty is Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northen Ireland not England. Someone who cant even understand that simple fact shouldn't be allowed an opinion on the Royals. I met her Majesty once and it was a very proud moment of my life. She seemed a very nice and genuine woman.
2007-01-20 09:41:36 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Couldn't agree more....
Actually the members of the Royal Family who are now on the Civil List are Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Phillip...no others, and it might interest you to know that the Queen, at her own instigation, has been paying tax on her own income since 1993. The amount that the British taxpayer pays for the Monarchy works out at a paltry 65p a year.
God Save the Queen!
2007-01-19 08:48:08 · answer #6 · answered by sarch_uk 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I am somewhat puzzled as to what this question is aiming at. To ask a question and say what you consider the right answer to be simply invites people to agree with you- it is already clear what you consider the ‘best’ answer will be. That might provide some reassurance that there are others who share your view, but it does not expand your knowledge.
My view is that the British monarchy is an anachronism which, when we think about it carefully, is probably contrary to the values most of us hold dear. I say this because we live in a country where, in principle, anyone can aspire to hold any position, in government or industry or the professions or academia, on merit. In practice it may be rather different but, we hope, that when people are considered for such roles the sole consideration is how good they will be at it- their race, name, height, age, eye colour, hair colour and all those sort of irrelevant things are disregarded.
The exception to this ideal is the role of head of state. Whether I, or anyone else, can aspire to that role has nothing to do with how good we would be at it. It depends, purely and simply, on being the child of the last person to hold the job. You would be pretty worried if your doctor, your teacher, your MP, your bin-man, your Prime Minister (or anyone else you care to name) was going to be succeeded in that role by their first child, whatever their actual suitability for the job. Why then make an exception for the monarch, and apply this mechanism to decide who will hold that role?
I can think of no logical reason why, a country which purports to be meritocratic and democratic should have the question of who is to hold a public role, which carries with it unparalleled privilege at public expense, determined according to a mechanism which we would never consider for choosing generals or judges.
Consequently, and in the full knowledge that this is not going to get me a ‘best answer’, I would disagree with the person who asked this question. The monarchy does not 'define who we are as a people'- since the monarchy and the means of succession contradict the values which most people would adopt for all other spheres of public life.
2007-01-19 11:13:14 · answer #7 · answered by RB 2 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Absolutely! The Queen is part of what makes England, England. God save the Queen!! We all love that girl!
2007-01-20 16:13:35 · answer #8 · answered by bellegurl17 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Queen is such a lovely and devoted person, she truly deserves more respect that what many people credit her with. Britain should keep her! she has done so much work for us and she has never broken her oath "I declear before you all that my whole life whether it be long or short shall be devoted to your service" she has never broken this oath - how many presidents have? all the EU gives us is crazy laws, for instance a 17 year old boy was sentanced to prison for commiting the act of treason for 5 years - he fired six blank rounds at the Queen - during the 1984 trooping the colour yet somone who hasnt paid their tax maybe get 30 years? how can you possibly say we want the EU if its giving ua insane laws like this.
2007-01-19 08:45:38 · answer #9 · answered by djgunn16 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I used to be anti royal.
However, since living away from the UK (in Canada) it has become quite obvious to me just how important they are. I can't comment on them as people as I've never met them, what I will say however is that now I'm a firm royalist.
I'm proud to be a Brit and we've lost enough of our traditions as it is. What are we when our identity is stripped away, neo Europeans? Let's just remember who we are.
D.
2007-01-19 15:50:32 · answer #10 · answered by Prophet of Deed 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋