If you'd like to see the Monarchy abolished, why not join 'Republic'? It's a UK organisation dedicated to an elected head of state.

The link is provided below.

Membership costs 10 pounds normal price/5 pounds for students. If you can afford it, please join, so we can create some sort of organised resistance to this outdated and patronising nonsense.

I'm not trying to provoke an argument here but...
I'd like someone to explain exactly what good abolishing the monarchy will do for our country (apart from stemming the flood of irritating tourists).
I understand this is highly simplified, but the way I see it is, whilst they are symbolic of an outdated feudal and undemocratic system, they don't seem to have any power any more. Whilst they do live in luxury and cost the taxpayer money, they also create many jobs in the toursit industry.
Also, I don't buy the 'democratic head of state' argument because of the feeble attempt at democracy that we have in this country.
Surely little would actually change in this country if the Royals were abolished, except perhaps that the Daily Mail would have to find something else to write about.

A NEW MONARCH WILL PUT THE 'GREAT' BACK INTO BRITAIN!

With all the current debate in the media about the popularity of the monarchy being tested by public response to the Queen's Golden Jubilee, there is a very important figure who is often overlooked when discussing the future of the Royal Family, who has a crucial part to play. In our opinion, much of the current public apathy and dissatisfaction could be redressed by using 'The Fairytale Theory.' As everyone will recall, fairytale kingdoms are ruled benevolently and wisely by a bi-umvate of King AND Queen, in which they and their loyal subjects 'live happily ever after.' Therefore, surely, the reason that every area of life in the UK is in decline is that we have only half of the traditional number of monarchs.

To bring about fairytale utopian bliss in the British Isles, all we have to do is follow the clear instructions left by past literary giants such as the Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen - crown ourselves a king. Fortunately, the ideal candidate is not hard to find. Over the last fifty years, the Queen's spouse, the Duke of Edinburgh, has exhibited all the personal qualities that we should expect from an unelected ruler, and his abilities and beliefs also accurately reflect the attitudes, desires and mindset of the Great British public.

Constitutionally, if there is enough vociferous support from us 'Commoners' and the Lords that we wish to petition, there is still the scope in British statutes for the spouse of a ruling monarch to be crowned in their own right without bestowing hereditary privileges on any relatives, but this has not been used much since Queen Anne's time.


I posted the above message in the official Buckinghap Palace guestbook, but as yet, no royal equerry has contacted me to thank me for my great idea - I'm sure its because they're all very busy. The following list of just a small selection of Prince Philip's diplomatic achievements over the years should convince every single inhabitant of these sceptered isles to join us in hearty voice, shouting our multitudinous hurrahs from bunting-bedecked rooftops as we proclaim:

"God bless KING Philip!"

1) After accepting a gift from a Kenyan native he asked, "You are a woman, aren't you?"

2) After the Dunblane tragedy : "If a cricketer decided to go into a school and batter people to death with his bat, are we going to ban cricket bats?"

3) Last visit to the Far East - "If it has four legs and is not a chair, has wings and is not an aeroplane, or swims and is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it."

4) At a royal dinner at St Andrews University, he told a student from Brunei how sorry he was that the student had to fly to Glasgow.

5) On a World Wildlife Fund visit (of which he is president, despite his love of blasting all forms of wildlife with his beautiful handmade antique shotguns and riding with hounds at every opportunity) he refused to touch a Koala bear as "It will be riddled with ghastly diseases..."

6) Welcomed former German chancellor Helmut Kohl as 'Reichskanzler', a traditional German title that Hitler awarded to himself but has never been used since.

7) Suggested locals were cannibals on a visit to Papua New Guinea by asking a British anthropology student collecting project data there, "You managed not to get eaten then?"

8) Asked a wealthy Cayman Islander "You're all descended from pirates, aren't you?"

9) Asked a Scottish driving instructor "How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough for them to pass?"

10) Told a group of deaf school children at a fund raising event standing next to a Jamaican steel drum band "Deaf? No wonder you are deaf standing so close to that racket."

11) A famous one - On a visit to China, he described Peking as "ghastly" and said that if Westerners stay too long there, they will become "slitty-eyed."

12) Told a student in Budapest that "You can't have been in Budapest that long because you haven't got a pot-belly..."

13) In India visiting a site where the British army in the years of the Empire had slaughtered Indian civilians, He was shown a plaque commemorating the 2000 killed to which he quipped "No, no, we didn't slaughter that many."

14) Told a mother who had recently lost her two sons in a house fire that for people that enjoy a cigar "smoke alarms are a damn nuisance."

15) Another famous one - On a visit to a large factory, he told a group of workers that a fuse box "looks like it has been put in by an Indian."

16) On seeing Oliver Skeete, Britain's first non-white show-jumper, famed for his dreadlocked hairstyle - "Who's that formidable black lady?"

17) The Prince angered local residents in Lockerbie when on a visit to the town in 1993, he said to a man who lived in a road where 11 people had been killed by wreckage from the Pan Am jumbo jet: "People usually say that after a fire it is water damage that is the worst. We are still trying to dry out Windsor Castle."

18) He said of Canada: "We don't come here for our health. We can think of other ways of enjoying ourselves."

19) At the height of the recession in 1981 he said: "Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed."

20) In 1966 he provoked outrage by saying: "British women can't cook."

21) Commenting on stress counselling for servicemen in a TV documentary on the 50th Anniversary of D-Day, he said: "It was part of the fortunes of war. We didn't have counsellors rushing around every time somebody let off a gun, asking 'are you all right - are you sure you don't have a problem?'. You just got on with it."

22) Prince Philip's joke to a blind girl at an award ceremony: "A blind man walked into a pub and swung his guide dog around his head by the tail. He told the barman - 'I'm just having a look around'."

Rule Britannia!