UK : why put up with pampered inbreds like the royals, let alone make them your head of state?

Question

Yank... Hah! I'm a scot.

Answer 1

At least President Blair would have a fixed shelf life.

Instead we have to put up with the saggy, dowdy, old bint until she croaks. Then we get the inbred to$$er who can't even put his own toothpaste on his toothbrush, and so on...

The French & Russians had the right idea.

Answer 2

Whilst they are our heads of state (and yours aswell) they arent. They hold no real power at all. They are a constitutional monarchy; basically they are there as a respresentation of the tradition and history that the country has. Parliament has all of the power (if you want to get technical, parliament includes the queen but you know what i mean). The queen cannot refuse royal assent to a bill. Well, she can, but that would leave our country in a tremendous state. Parliament is sovereign. The crown controls pretty much everything, even the exercise of the royal prerogative (the crown meaning ministers ie the executive). So that deals with the head of state issue, they are, but without any of the power. Which i think is a bad place to be. Think, youve got all the bad sides of being a public figure, eg no privacy etc but what have you actually got to show for it? Ok you get to live very comfortably, but you have no power to show for your position.

Why do we put up with them? Tradition and History mainly. And believe it or not, the queen and things associated with the royals are the UK's biggest tourist puller, they do bring money in, probably more than we spend on maintaining their lavish lifestyle.

I like having a monarchy, even if I dont like the spoilt pampered brats that will never be able to comprehend a reall hard days work. I like it because it sets us apart from alot of the world and is a living representation of the fantastic history of the UK. As somebody said, what other options are there? President Blair? Actually he probably does have about as much power as a president.

Don't worry though, I believe our legal system is americanising, slowly but surely. Before long you'll have your president.

Answer 3

Why put up with them? Do we have some sort of choice here?
Not all inbred BTW the Duke was imported to cut down on that, I don't mean John Wayne, but that could have been a better choice, yes the more I think about it the better I like it, imagine him at the horse guards ceremony, saying "Git down offa that hoss!!
BTW the English guy that says the English kept beating the Scots doesnt know much about history does he? How about the time Wallace went a lot further down South than York and just about wiped you all off the face of the earth, werent quite so smug then were you?????

Answer 4

First off the Queen is our back up incase Blair and his croonies decide they want total control like a dictatorship. The British army serves the Queen not the Prime Minister so if he was to go a little more crazy than he is the Queen would oust him from power and take charge while waiting for a new election. She has more power than you think, more power than anyone on earth really because she is capable of removing leaders of all commonwealth nations should they become corrupt. She can veto any law with no reason and as i mentioned she can choose to take command of the Armed Forces. She controls the Justice system ( she will have her say on the idiots in government who have messed the prison system up soon enough ), the tax system, the government and everything else in this country.The only thing being she gives the responsiblity to the Government aslong as they dont mess up to bad. She has never exercised her power as she believes it may upset the population but makes it clear she would if it became essential in order to preserve our national identity.

As for Charles, as mad and wierd as he is he hates the Government so maybe he would be a good thing and decide to sack the lot of them and hold new elections woth people actually capable. Hes the kind of king who would do that.

Bring on Charles, HM King Of Great Britain, Ender of Blairs crew

Also the Royals make more money than they are given in taxes, 3x more actually

£60million paid in taxes
£169million made from there estates and other assets.

Royalty rules and your just jealous mate because the English just kept beating you Scots. And now we run your country. Woohoo.LOL

Answer 5

The royals are not the only ones receiving a lot of income from owning tons of properties & lots of land - we should confiscate so much land that the top 12 land owners all end up with the same amount, and have an asset tax to take company shares & land away from the richest 1%. But this is very unlikely to happen, unfortunately, with the current threesome of political parties in England.

Answer 6

for a start the royals do not get paid by anyones tax
they get paid from the privy purse which is the income from the royal estates and goes towards paying for parliament they are called the royal estates because they belong to the royal family the average anual revenue from these estates is aprox 170 million a year the Queen is returned expenses out of this moneywhich are aprox 7.9 million a year and the government keeps the rest
so if she stopped being head of state and took her assets back from the government she would be like a 160 million pounds a year richer so i think any of you lots tax wouldn`t make one iota of difference to her and she could live where she wanted and be even more pampered and however jealous people are they can`t do nothing about it

Answer 7

But why does the queen have all these estates? She has them because she is the queen! If we got rid of her, we'd take the land from her & her family, and make them get a real job. If they were ,as i supect they are, unable to hold a job down after a life time of 'pampering' then they'd go on the dole. i like to see them live of that!

Answer 8

As a figure head to bring in tourism and economic development then its fine ..however thats as far as it should go..This is the 21st Centuary we don't need it, as a proud Scot I do not recognise this family as figure heads in my country..The Scottish Parliment should and will become the figure head and the hub of all Scottish affairs hopefully in the not to distant future ;-)

Answer 9

That's it entirely (first answer)- the alternative could be President Blair as head of state - he gets enough of a joly being PM.

The Royals are worth having to prevent lunatics like Blair getting near that status.

Answer 10

eire also has a ceremonial President as head of state. it truly is little need they ought to have some teeth in the different case what use are they. i imagine you may say maximum individuals of British people do help the monarchy.