Similarly, I'm not necessarily abolitionist
(At least, I've mellowed over the years)
If they still turn a profit as the world's biggest hereditary tourist attraction, then they can carry on as figureheads, I just think it's time we did away with these dreadfully dated parts of the constitution (e.g., as Larry describes it "a democracy, unless the Queen says otherwise"). I know she doesn't wield any real power, it just strikes me as immensely hypocritical that we blunder round the world preaching the benefits and virtues of democracy when our own official head of state is appointed autocratically.
(LongJohnBaldry, Tue 11 May 2010, 17:26, Reply)