2007-08-30 10:48:38 · 17 answers · asked by Coraline 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Royalty
It would be nice if people understood what they were talking about. The Civil List pays the Queen and royal family roughly 30% of what the Royal Estates turn over to the treasury. Do away with the monarchy, and she could take back all that revenue and be much richer than she is. Plus she could put her feet up.
As for Sandringham and Balmoral only being used a few weeks of the year - so what. Those are the private property of the Queen. The taxpayer does not pay for them. The British taxpayer pays for Buckingham Palace, Windsor and the Palace of Hollyrode House. Even without a royal family, those are hardly about to be turned over for low income housing, so the cost would always be there. However, all three generate income. Tourists pay to enter them.
And as for how people feel about the monarchy - well, they vote with their feet. They still turn out to see the Queen and various members of the family.
2007-08-30 11:51:23 · answer #1 · answered by brian s 4 · 3⤊ 4⤋
Two reasons:
1) As we become more like American society we adopt their values of personal advancement by hard work. For "the American way" read "an emerging British way". The Royals are the antithesis of this. The live a life of luxury and privilige that was handed to them on the day that they were born.
2) In a modern democracy we should be citizens of the country not the subject of a individual purely on the basis of the family that person was born into. The Monarchy is the antithesis of this also.
2007-09-01 10:19:06 · answer #2 · answered by THE PROFESSOR 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
According to the figures only 15% of the British population don't want the monarchy
2007-08-31 13:54:25 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Fascinating isn't. This page is supposed to be to ask and answer questions on Royalty, the the cult of Diana and the anti British Royal family hound down anyone with opposing views. The first I would have thought would be in celebrities and the second in News and current events. You will never find out if the British do not like their monarchy because these two cliques will not allow any thinking person to have an opinion other then the ones they allow
2007-08-31 03:05:57 · answer #4 · answered by Lucrezia 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
According to a recent poll, between 15 and 25 percent of Brits would prefer a republic while 10 percent are undecided. The move towards a republic--or rather for an independent Scottish republic--is probably stronger in Scotland (particularly after the Scotsman has published an article on the Scottish Nationalist Party).
Now for a pseduo-Marxist interpretation: the average Brit is very aware of social class--as compared to the average American (who will most probably claim middle class status regardless of his or her income), and the monarchy smacks of privilege earned not by merit but by birth right.
2007-08-30 21:41:11 · answer #5 · answered by Ellie Evans-Thyme 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Nearly 80 p.c. of the British population support the Monarchy. If it appears that "so many British" dislike the Monarchy then it is because on the internet very courageous people take up a fight against the institution.
In any referendum an overwhelming majority would approve the Monarchy and the Westminster system. A republic of any sort wouldn't stand a chance.
2007-08-30 17:52:18 · answer #6 · answered by MelbRoyalist 3 · 4⤊ 4⤋
The ones against the Monarchy are of that opinion because they aren't in the position.
2007-09-02 13:33:16 · answer #7 · answered by rann_georgia 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The British people are getting sick of having pay pay for the monarchy to enjoy a lazy, self indulgent life style. We pay for the up keep of 4 royal residences when some like Sandringham and Balmoral are only used for a few weeks of the year. The queen is a very rich woman. why should the working class have to pay AND I dispute the figure of 80% of the population support the monarchy. Yes the monarchy are still popular, but that popularity is dropping.
2007-08-30 18:43:47 · answer #8 · answered by JanJan 7 · 6⤊ 4⤋
Unfortunately, most 'British' people - I presume by this you mean English, Scottish and Welsh - do like the monarchy. This is of course incomprehensible as they are a bunch of reactionary parasites who reflect this country's obsession with social snobbery, material self-aggrandizement and imperialist arrogance. Shame on the British people for preferring this parody of a constitution to the true democratic version embodied in the best Republican thinkers from Aristotle to Grotius. Salus populi suprema lex.
2007-08-30 21:20:11 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Do not like the idea of hereditary power. What they like more is a Monarcy with a Monarch who does not rule that is left to a system deemed more fair one in which gives the people a choice of ruler. The other reasons there are no wars between Royals fighting over who has the claim to the throne if people figure someone is not worthy they can either vote for someone else or call an election and get the person out of office without the land being ruined by a possible civil war between factions like The War Of The Roses
2007-08-30 18:07:52 · answer #10 · answered by darren m 7 · 2⤊ 3⤋