new baby

[stokemaveric]

so price edward and his wife have had another baby.....another royal mouth for us hard pressed tax payers to feed.banish the lot of them to a desert island and we would save ourselves millions..........

[Ric.ror]

And a very merry christmas to you miserable lot

[anotheoldgit]

I canot understand it some ABers on here don't seem to mind how many foreign families come into this country costing us billions, yet throw their dummies out of their prams over one family, that the rest of world adore.

What s the alternative a President such as Brown?

[Kromovaracun]

To those who endorse an elected head-of-state - i.e. a president - this would cost a good deal more to implement than the monarchy does at present. And they would also have very little power, so all that extra expense would go nowhere but to make a half-arsed moral point that doesn't actually have widespread popular support. And that same head-of-state would still get 'money back' from the system (as someone earlier put it).

Is the monarch-headed system perfect? No, far from it. I'd surprised if anyone was arguing that there are no problems with it, but from a financial perspective it makes sense, and from a cultural or traditional perspective it makes sense. The only perspective from which it doesn't is conceivably a moral one, and even there the grounding is rather iffy.

If one has a bee in their bonnet over aristocratic privelige, might I suggest focusing efforts on something a bit more useful or important, such as, say, reform of the House of Lords?

[Bazile]

Why is it that whenever this is discussed ,some on here always trot out the ' president ' alternative ?

Why would we need a president ?

How about ONLY an elected govenment with a Prime Minister -or is that too novel an idea .

[fagidill]

Newsdesk : Regarding My GRAMMAR , Sorry I Am Unable To Appolagise , You See I Tried Eating The Oxford Dictionary Some Time Ago, But Unfortunatly It Made Me Throw Up !

[fagidill]

Newsdesk : PS Who The H#ll Is Lucy ?

[Kromovaracun]

Bazile: The PM is constitutionally 'primus inter pares' - first among equals. That means s/he can't and shouldn't be elevated to a head of state role. Plus, the PM does a hell of a lot allready - if he had to do all the ceremonial (but necessary) stuff carried out by our incumbent head of state, it would likely infringe upon his/her ability to govern and administrate properly. For no good reason.

The monarch does enough to make it not worth transfering to the PM but not enough to make it worth the extra expense for another head of state. If there was a transference there would be a totally pointless constitutional headache.

[cazzz1975]

actually stoke the royal family earn us a fortune in tourism, without a monarchy, we would be a grotty little island that cant say no to anything

[LoftyLottie]

Wish people would not post questions like this without having actually found out some facts.

[Kromovaracun]

I am in agreement with Loosehead and AOG. I think this quite clearly demonstrates one of two things:

1) the universe is about to kaplode
2) we're right.

And there's been no indications of universal collapse just yet...

[david1702198]

mr benn i thought they were the british monarchy?? anayway id have them away . they contribute s h i t all to this country. there was a rumour that prince charles had an assistant to wipe his a r s e!!! away with the lot of them . snobs

[fletcher.5]

Stokemaveric were the hell are you coming from about banishing these people to a desert island.
put them up against a wall a shoot them would solve the problem