A question to those in the UK

[SciFiBoy]

tombi123 said:

SciFiBoy said:
@tombi123

when did we have this referendum on the monarchy that proved most people want one?

when did we they have refferendums in every other nation that said they like her?

well?

as for the popularity thing, yeah i dont know why i said that tbh, i tend to post sometimes without thinking.

keeping the monarchy for the sake of it just seems stupid to me, we do that, we aint a democracy.

If there was a public vote on whether to keep the royal family or not I can garentee you that the british public would vote for them to stay.

You don't need a refferendum to prove The Queen is liked all over the world. Just watch the reception she gets when she visits other countries.

We don't just keep the monarchy for the sake of it. As I have said before, she is really good for relations with other countries, and she brings in more money than she costs the taxpayer.

She has no political power so it doesn't really make us any less democratic. Would you prefer the American version of democracy which is a dictatorship in disguise.

there has been no vote though, thats the point.

so because people in a crowd like her, that means shes universally popular in that nation? crowds turned out to cheer the BNP in some areas, does that mean theyre the most popular party? youre using perception as fact, you have no concrete proof.

so good for relations with other countrys infact that were mocked by most of them for having her (i dont know this, but ive seen US tv shows that take the piss out of us having her, so im gonna do what you did, claim a perception is fact)

she does have political power though as is established in this thread, power that should be given to parliment. how is it dictatorship if an elected government does what its elected to do?

as i said earlier in the thread, i like the idea of giving her powers to parliment and im in favour of PR, so it wont be like america at all.