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

Well even if it was financially less rewarding, at least it wasn't bear baiting.

Your Comment does not make sense ?

Nor did your question.

Then why reply to a question that doesn’t make sense to you?

I am not GSM, just for clarity.

Bridgeit

Your Comment does not make sense ?

I'll have another go then....

The ongoing job opportunities afforded by our having a Royal Family are not enough in themselves to justify having a Royal Family. Whatever the "100s" of people are doing, there are other jobs they could do. Possibly a good number of the jobs are involved with looking after a well-off family and their many homes, and so those jobs would continue to exist. Moving to a republican system does not mean depriving individual people of the assets or lifestyle, it means we have a different form of government.

But the structure of job markets change. Some types of jobs will disappear, and others will replace them. I suspect that when bear baiting was made illegal, there were complaints about what the bear baiters would do for a living. Well, they had to find other employment, because it was decided that bear baiting was not something that this country wanted to support any more.

So anybody currently working for the RF will have to find other employment, if and when we change our systems of government.

But totally unnecessary.

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I am lost now.

Why alter something that works to then have to find an alternative ie.other employment ?

Talking of monarchy, did you see the Duchess of Cambridge at the Commonwealth Service ? She is just too thin …..

It’s a bit like closing a factory, & then deciding to open a new one .

Bridgeit

It’s a bit like closing a factory, & then deciding to open a new one .

Or, a bit like abolishing slavery and having to start using the ships for a more honourable profession.

Do you think we should have kept the cotton mills open because of all the women they employed?

At that time yes, that is what I am saying .
Everything progresses, but everything is not necessarily progress .

Well some people thought slavery was a good thing, but that doesn't make it so these days. Why aren't countries which are republics changing over to monarchies?

Because they don’t need to.

crazyH

Talking of monarchy, did you see the Duchess of Cambridge at the Commonwealth Service ? She is just too thin …..

I think she works really hard to keep so slim.

You cannot escape the fact that the gorgeous clothes she wears look so nice on her tall, elegant figure.

Bridgeit

It’s a bit like closing a factory, & then deciding to open a new one .

It's not really.

Civilisations change, transform, evolve - what was once accepted as the norm become outdated or no longer relevant.

To borrow from Francis Urquhart (House of Cards)... "nothing lasts forever. Even the longest, the most glittering reign must come to an end someday."

I'm not arguing for or against, just pointing out that your comparison doesn't really work.

Prince William and Kate will celebrate the Queen’s legacy in Belize, Jamaica and the Bahamas with a Platinum Jubilee outing

Jamaica doesent want to pay for their holiday.

The queens legacy in Belize, Jamaica and the Bahamas? Maintaining and benefiting from the systems of oppression set up by her ancestors? Not paying reparations or apologising for the atrocities carried out buy her ancestors?

To celebrate the Imperialist legacy of plunder, racism and and all the vicious atrocities heaped on them. The oppressed would so love to be reminded of and celebrate what their colonial masters did to them.

Harry not going to be at memorial service Media that's a snub

William and Kate skiiing Media that's a surprise

Well I agree with you on Harry Grany.

Monarchs have often been adulterers, so that shouldn’t rule out Charles, but I think his rarified upbringing and life experience has made him unsuitable for the position of king. Perhaps William would be better suited to dealing with and understanding ordinary people.

Monarchs have often been adulterers
and their wives.

That's why we don't have the Plantagenets on the throne today.

I always have a little chuckle when we see posts that say they don't want Charles, we could have William though.

You want to choose the next head of state because the one that's being proposed isn't very good.

So that's a republic

OK

My vote goes to Simon Abney-Hastings

Who he? (I don’t get out much?).

The rightful heir to the British throne who lives in Australia, son of Michael Abney-Hastings
www.abroadintheyard.com/real-king-of-england-dies-in-australia-true-royal-lineage-which-would-have-changed-british-history/