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What are most people's opinion in UK of the Royal Family?
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Personally I don't think they're really relevant anymore - If you just took the lot of them a way life would go on much the same and we'd never notice the difference.
You'll find a lot of people will tell you that they "bring in a lot of tourism" but even if that's true setting your constitution around what brings in most tourism isn't a sensible idea.
Some people will tell you they do a lot of good work - but then so does Bob Geldoff and I'm not putting a crown on him!
At the end of the day I think monarchists are often people who like the old fantasies of Kings and Queens and princesses in towers, removing them would make their lives duller.
We should remove the last vestiges of their power though like the theoretical right to choose who forms a Government
Personally I don't think they're really relevant anymore - If you just took the lot of them a way life would go on much the same and we'd never notice the difference.
You'll find a lot of people will tell you that they "bring in a lot of tourism" but even if that's true setting your constitution around what brings in most tourism isn't a sensible idea.
Some people will tell you they do a lot of good work - but then so does Bob Geldoff and I'm not putting a crown on him!
At the end of the day I think monarchists are often people who like the old fantasies of Kings and Queens and princesses in towers, removing them would make their lives duller.
We should remove the last vestiges of their power though like the theoretical right to choose who forms a Government
Not really it's just that we haven't had a minority government for many years when such a perogative may be used.
See here:
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ZCBUMMFpHHk C&pg=RA1-PA34&lpg=RA1-PA34&dq=queen+invitation +to+form+a+government+government+minority&sour ce=web&ots=9lM6QK2YCx&sig=Dxdns0TWrg3MluRyYhDu wXE9wgw&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct= result
and especiallythe following section on refusal of advice
See here:
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ZCBUMMFpHHk C&pg=RA1-PA34&lpg=RA1-PA34&dq=queen+invitation +to+form+a+government+government+minority&sour ce=web&ots=9lM6QK2YCx&sig=Dxdns0TWrg3MluRyYhDu wXE9wgw&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct= result
and especiallythe following section on refusal of advice
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Probably 10% of people hate them and 10% of people love them, and the remaining 80% don't give them much thought at all. They're pretty irrelevant to our daily lives.
The media shoves them down our throats at every opportunity, but no-one's really that interested, or if they are it's only in the sense that you might be interested in following a soap opera.
The media shoves them down our throats at every opportunity, but no-one's really that interested, or if they are it's only in the sense that you might be interested in following a soap opera.
According to this poll http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7162649.stm
78% of Brits think we should retain the Monarchy. And I think the Queen herself commands enomous respect from very many people. We're still not sure about Charles, I reckon, but he seems to be widely thought of as well-meaning, at the very least. Princess Anne is respected for her public works and the glamourous ones in the younger generation get a lot of media attention, usually fawning. But only real fans of Royalty have any time for any of the rest - and as has been stated, there are an awful lot of them.
78% of Brits think we should retain the Monarchy. And I think the Queen herself commands enomous respect from very many people. We're still not sure about Charles, I reckon, but he seems to be widely thought of as well-meaning, at the very least. Princess Anne is respected for her public works and the glamourous ones in the younger generation get a lot of media attention, usually fawning. But only real fans of Royalty have any time for any of the rest - and as has been stated, there are an awful lot of them.
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