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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..........
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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?
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: 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.
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.
