Do we need the monarchy in this day and and age?

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There's a Kind of Hush ......

Grany
Why isn't Charles allowed to do a live interview with a competent journalist?

???
Competent journalist? I’ve yet to read anything unbiased by any journalist.
Are you really unaware of how an interview, even a live one, can be manipulated?
So do you mean one who agrees with your POV?

I hear Sarah Smith is almost saintly in her lack of bias.

volver

I hear Sarah Smith is almost saintly in her lack of bias.

Well she’s a good match for that other lady who thinks she does everything right, I forget her name.?

Ruth Davidson?

Hasn't Ruth 's halo slipped since she took £20.000 off a Russian to have afternoon tea with her...nice work if you can get it .

volver

Ruth Davidson?

No, I meant st Nic.

Never...did you? ?

Buckingham Palace is being refurbished and Charles and Camilla will move in when his time comes to be King... That's why The Queen has moved full time to Windsor........

volver

Never...did you? ?

Yes Vulver I did!

Ok, I'm not sure how to answer that ?

Appropriate for International Women's Day, I suppose.

Sorry, I dictated my reply and didn’t check before clicking post. But yes I did mean st Nic.

Ah, OK. Apology accepted.

Santa then?

Jaxie

Germansshepherdsmum has chosen an apt moniker; those dogs were the chosen enforcers of the SS. Please don’t equate socialism with communism.

Oh FFS!

Mollygo

Grany
Why isn't Charles allowed to do a live interview with a competent journalist?

???
Competent journalist? I’ve yet to read anything unbiased by any journalist.
Are you really unaware of how an interview, even a live one, can be manipulated?
So do you mean one who agrees with your POV?

Yes a journalist who isn't afraid to speak truth to power.

Do you know of any other public person polititions who are allowed to have a 15 page contract of what they will talk about and also have editing rights? None.

And did you know RF are unaccountable, secretive what have they got to hide??? And are exempt from freedom of information act. You can't find out anything about RF even if you wanted to like other people in the public eye others who are accountable RF are a public body being paid from the public purse.

Surely anyone can have a contract before giving anyone in the
media an interview, it’s up to them to decide if they want to
carry out an interview.

As for not finding out anything about the royal family, grany
I think you have posted much about them, waiting for you to
tell how much lavatory paper they use.

A real parliamentary democracy

* Create a written constitution that sets out what power each part of the political system has.
* Ensure the constitution can only be changed by referendum or by a 'super-majority' in both houses of parliament (two thirds or three quarters of MPs, for example).
* Give the power to set parliament's timetable to MPs, not the government.
* Scrap royal powers currently used by the government, including scrapping the Privy Council.
* Introduce a fully elected upper house, giving elected representatives the power to challenge and, if necessary, block laws and decisions proposed by government.
* Elect an independent, non-political head of state who can act as referee and defender of the constitution. With the power to refuse to sign a law if they believe it's unconstitutional, and to help the parties negotiate in times of political paralysis this gives all sides of politics a more equal position in the constitution.

Of course the government must still have the power to govern, and parliament must have the power to make laws. But governing and making laws are two different things, and both should be done withing a system that has limits on the power of government and parliament, limits that are protected by an independent, accountable head of state.

Oh just get rid of them and be done with it. They are just a pointless relic of past times.

nanna8

Oh just get rid of them and be done with it. They are just a pointless relic of past times.

Totally agree a waste of space and money

volver

Ah, OK. Apology accepted.

Santa then?

Santa? Did you mean to write that or did you call her Satan?

No, definitely Santa. You must be thinking of Priti Patel.

www.heraldscotland.com/politics/19974046.irish-take-80-000-ukrainians-priti-patel-fire-uk-response/

nanna8

Oh just get rid of them and be done with it. They are just a pointless relic of past times.

Agreed!

Another “get rid of” vote here.

Perhaps it’s time the royals stopped trying to make the Commonwealth all about them. They didn’t create it, they don’t lead it and more than 90% of its citizens don’t have the Queen as their head of state.

Once again I ask, what would you do?
No one has a choice, we are who we are …