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

Most confusing, the Queen is exempt from transparency act
to disclose her wealth yet we are told by grany details of the
Queen’s wealth , can we assume grany is just plucking figures to suit ?

And it's not OK for anyone to use a derogatory form of a name because you don't like the person

I didn't

And I didn't say I didn't like paddyann, just dislike some of her views and I think we all got thoroughly fed up of being shouted at over the years.

I assume you reported me nadateturbe

We have a very unequal society in Britain and monarchy sits at the top and perpetuates this inequality

In short it is inconsistent with morality and democracy

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/pandemic-royal-family-queen-lobbying-consent-how-much-wealth

We all have a choice it's right what Paddyann54 said. And the queen is called Elizabeth so it can be shortened to Liz or Lizzie and Co which includes the rest of her extended family nothing wrong with that.

The British should ask What is the monarchy for?

We found out queen lobbies had her lawyer exempt her from transparency act to hide her wealth.

What is particularly notable about this revelation is the extent to which the royal family may influence the formation of British laws in their own favour. Using the parliamentary procedure of the “Queen’s consent,”

When the receipts are laid bare, such as they are now, can we continue to affirm this cultural artefact that costs millions every year?

We are now in the middle of a pandemic that has caused incredible economic devastation—to say nothing of the many years of austerity. Poverty rates have now hit record highs. Can modern Britain really accept this lack of transparency on top of the already vast wealth and immunity of the royal family?

British people, and Britain, appear as small and vulnerable as everyone else on this planet. Revelations of overt Crown self-interest may finally puncture the appeal of living in a fantasy—even if it is only through the grandeur of somebody else.

Paddyann expresses herself rudely sometimes and does the Republian cause no favours.. I've told her so. But it's not OK to question her intelligence.
And it's not OK for anyone to use a derogatory form of a name because you don't like the person.
I too would like to see an end to the monarchy for the same reasons. Sooner rather than later. But I feel it will take time.

Such hatred , such talk puts one off being a republican, what sort of President would they want

But then some posters really are venomous and perhaps should be pitied.

No, not at all well said.
A viewpoint can be expressed without venom

paddyann54

Everyone has a choice,IF they want to leave a never ending flow of cash and privilege ...guess thats not Lizzie and Co .
We can all change direction if its what they really want..or they can complain about the intrusive press all the while courting them for the publicity to ensure the flow of public money .
Its medieval ,its out of date and our of touch with the real world.Let it go when Lizzie dies

Well Said I quite agree very well put.

I too am fed up with it and hate to see the Queen called Lizzie.

So strange, I am frequently criticised for my spelling of Megan
not a squeak from those posters when the Queen is called
Lizzie, never was when the same poster use to refer to
Phil the Greek.

MerylStreep
Straight to the point as usual
?

nadateturbe

How rude Callistemon.

Maybe if you’d listened to this shite for years and years you might be just a tad pissed off with it.

Thanks Mollygo
I try to always be polite on GN even if I disagree and even if goaded, but just very rarely, if someone really tries my patience beyond endurance with their unpleasantness, I might say exactly what I really think!

No Callistemon21 and if you were rude you’ve had a good example set by some of those posting the continual onslaught you mention.
I’m almost convinced to be a royalist by them.

Possibly nadaturbe

But the continual onslaught of anti-English, anti-monarchist rhetoric from this poster has become tedious over many years.
I'm not a staunch monarchist by any means, but the hatred and bile about anything English is relentless.

I don't think I'm the only one fed up with it.

How rude Callistemon.

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Everyone has a choice,IF they want to leave a never ending flow of cash and privilege ...guess thats not Lizzie and Co .
We can all change direction if its what they really want..or they can complain about the intrusive press all the while courting them for the publicity to ensure the flow of public money .
Its medieval ,its out of date and our of touch with the real world.Let it go when Lizzie dies

I was a royalist until Prince Andrew’s grim behaviour was exposed. That he was sheltered, protected, and his payout was funded by the RF, enraged me. Looking up some of the posters points and doing my own research regarding the obscene amount of money they are paid and hoard, I’m now completely over the lot. I’ll be sad on the event of the queen’s death, but after her I would like the rest of the rag tag bunch of the English royal family to be abolished.

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

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.

Another “get rid of” vote here.

nanna8

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

Agreed!