discussion Is it time to end the Monarchy?

[illia]

No Lizzie, no Crown 

[LadyDiana]

Abolish it and what is england left with? Rain? They are part of a society and life in the uk. In a funny way, they've kept the nation sane.

[Both Sides Now]

[gatito]

D TO ALL OF THEM

[Wonderland]

15 minutes ago, LadyDiana said:

Abolish it and what is england left with? Rain? They are part of a society and life in the uk. In a funny way, they've kept the nation sane.

I've always found it interesting that the national anthem is entirely centered around the monarch.

 

Is there really nothing else to sing about aside from that this family were born to reign?  

[Madonno]

1 hour ago, LadyDiana said:

Abolish it and what is england left with? Rain? They are part of a society and life in the uk. In a funny way, they've kept the nation sane.

Harry Potter

 

Ot: yes, abolish them

[MadonnasBoyfriend]

1 hour ago, LadyDiana said:

Abolish it and what is england left with? Rain? They are part of a society and life in the uk. In a funny way, they've kept the nation sane.

And we already stole there Gordon Ramsay

[Zeferino]

Long overdue 

[byzantium]

I might have voted wrong.  Either way, abolish it. The mere notion of maintaining much less defending a nobility in the 21st century is absurd.

[scenekiller]

2 hours ago, MadonnasBoyfriend said:

not every country in the world needs to adopt the forced woke mentality of the us. They can continue to do there thing there because not everything needs to be woke everywhere

There's nothing "woke" about it, all of your posts are always so dumb

[mercurialworld]

wait I thought it said "I am from a Commonwealth Nation and I DO wish the monarchy to END" NOOO

[Katamari]

im from the us and really dont care tbh

 

its not a good look for them but im not living there so....

[unino]

It's dated and unnecessary.

[OrgVisual]

Who cares? They have no political power anyways. Just think of them as the Kardashians of UK aka giving people and the media something to talk about all the time 

[Wonderland]

So if we crunch the numbers....

 

United Kingdom (15 votes):

13% pro-monarchy

87% against 

 

Commonwealth Nations (11 votes):

18% pro-monarchy

82% against

 

Rest of World (55 votes):

22% pro-monarchy

78% against

 

Combined (81 votes):

20% pro-monarchy

80% against

 

[Kuromi]

We can't just press a button and suddenly end the monarchy. Lots of legislation would need to be done. The monarchy has way too much power right now. Perhaps it could someday when most citizens are on the same page, but not anytime soon. As long as they still have the people, the government, and other nations behind them, nothing will change, unfortunately. Thousands of people are still showing up for the royal family today and believe in the tradition of continuing the monarchy in the UK. Tons of UK citizens attended the coronation just to support them. It was interesting to see, because I thought they were losing so much popularity like everyone online says? Clearly that isn't the case and doesn't seem to be stopping them in any way.

 

[Robert]

It should have ended with Liz, the whole thing has just turned into a circus. 

[Robert]

27 minutes ago, Kuromi said:

We can't just press a button and suddenly end the monarchy. Lots of legislation would need to be done. The monarchy has way too much power right now. Perhaps it could someday when most citizens are on the same page, but not anytime soon. As long as they still have the people, the government, and other nations behind them, nothing will change, unfortunately. Thousands of people are still showing up for the royal family today and believe in the tradition of continuing the monarchy in the UK. Tons of UK citizens attended the coronation just to support them. It was interesting to see, because I thought they were losing so much popularity like everyone online says? Clearly that isn't the case and doesn't seem to be stopping them in any way.

 

Most of the people are older generations. Young people generally aren't supportive. 

[HANZ94]

4 hours ago, Kuromi said:

We can't just press a button and suddenly end the monarchy. Lots of legislation would need to be done. The monarchy has way too much power right now. Perhaps it could someday when most citizens are on the same page, but not anytime soon. As long as they still have the people, the government, and other nations behind them, nothing will change, unfortunately. Thousands of people are still showing up for the royal family today and believe in the tradition of continuing the monarchy in the UK. Tons of UK citizens attended the coronation just to support them. It was interesting to see, because I thought they were losing so much popularity like everyone online says? Clearly that isn't the case and doesn't seem to be stopping them in any way.

 

Yeah ending the Monarchy is not as easy as people on the internet think 

 

first off they would have to change the name of the nation, the flag and the national anthem and let’s not talk about the legislations 

literally everything about the UK would have to change 

And the monarch is also the reason the commonwealth is United if the monarchy disappears it would be a disaster for the Uk in political and economic aspects 

[cockatoo]

14 hours ago, Sept said:

Who cares? They have no political power anyways. Just think of them as the Kardashians of UK aka giving people and the media something to talk about all the time 

I think a lot of British people care seeing as our taxes pay for them

[OrgVisual]

55 minutes ago, cockatoo said:

I think a lot of British people care seeing as our taxes pay for them

That's not 100% true that taxpayers are paying for the royal family if you read about it. The royal family is the richest family in the country with shitloads of estates and some of the most popular tourist attractions in the country

[cockatoo]

1 minute ago, Sept said:

That's not 100% true that taxpayers are paying for the royal family if you read about it. The royal family is the richest family in the country with shitloads of estates and some of the most popular tourist attractions in the country

Yeah I know that but they do receive an income from the state which, as you say, they really don't need. If they could self fund I wouldn't care about them.

 

I know Charles wants to "slim down" the monarchy in some capacity so it will be interesting to see what that looks like. They definitely don't need all those extras

[OrgVisual]

8 minutes ago, cockatoo said:

Yeah I know that but they do receive an income from the state which, as you say, they really don't need. If they could self fund I wouldn't care about them.

 

I know Charles wants to "slim down" the monarchy in some capacity so it will be interesting to see what that looks like. They definitely don't need all those extras

They donated those said estates to the state

[Theshigo Washidu]

Yes, should've happened long time ago.

[MadonnasBoyfriend]

On 5/6/2023 at 7:33 AM, GoodGuyGoneGhetto said:

What “forced, woke mentality” are you talking about?

Like being overtly politically correct in an annoying manner. The whole world doesn't have to be like that just cause we are in the US