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Merseyside monachrists

Are you for or against the Monarchy

  • For

    Votes: 37 19.7%

  • Against

    Votes: 109 58.0%

  • Cheese on toast

    Votes: 42 22.3%
  • Total voters
    188
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Much of the monarchy love in seems like a nostalgia kick to me, people often cite parents/grandparents love of the queen/queen mum from a different era when talking about them. Charles may benefit from that as well to some extent, plus he's a bit of a character and was outspoken at times even while the queen was running the show. It'll be interesting to see how he conducts himself in matters of government and politics now he's the big deal.
As far as the main point if the thread, i went for option c.
 
frank rizzo said:
Much of the monarchy love in seems like a nostalgia kick to me, people often cite parents/grandparents love of the queen/queen mum from a different era when talking about them. Charles may benefit from that as well to some extent, plus he's a bit of a character and was outspoken at times even while the queen was running the show. It'll be interesting to see how he conducts himself in matters of government and politics now he's the big deal.
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The Queen was given a lifetime of goodwill due to her "conduct" during the war, by yes, our Parents and Grandparents.

The whole country seemed to be behind the Royals till pretty much the whole Diana thing, thats when it changed I think, I cant say for sure, I was fairly young and there wasnt Social media back then.

But Charles has no goodwill, so good luck Sausage fingers.
 
davek said:
These people are serfs. They'll listen to the media and then love him to bits.

It's the English disease. Utter forelock touchers and cap doffers most of them.
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It’s a disease of humanity unfortunately. Tell a population that someone is better than them and deserves to be a leader (usually at the behest of a deity) and they will happily lick their boots. Revolutions only happen when they get too greedy or forget to keep their piglet mate’s troughs full.
 
JimmyJeffers said:
It’s a disease of humanity unfortunately. Tell a population that someone is better than them and deserves to be a leader (usually at the behest of a deity) and they will happily lick their boots. Revolutions only happen when they get too greedy or forget to keep their piglet mate’s troughs full.
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There's something deeply disturbing about the English proles these days though. Utter serfs.

It wasn't always that way. They chopped off the head of one of them once upon a time. The good old days as I call them.
 
JimmyJeffers said:
It’s a disease of humanity unfortunately. Tell a population that someone is better than them and deserves to be a leader (usually at the behest of a deity) and they will happily lick their boots. Revolutions only happen when they get too greedy or forget to keep their piglet mate’s troughs full.
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So our recent departed superior did or didn't run the hundred in 7 seconds and hit 18 consecutive hole in ones?
 

davek said:
There's something deeply disturbing about the English proles these days though. Utter serfs.

It wasn't always that way. They chopped off the head of one of them once upon a time. The good old days as I call them.
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Was speaking to a non Brit work mate the other day about this, and there is this stereotype in some other countries that we are all these mad flag waving bootlickers. Was a bit taken a back to be honest. I threw down my Union Jack plastic hat and stormed out the room.
 
Charro said:
It’s just attention seekers on twitter all patting themselves on the back. People with twitter handles like ‘scouse republic’ and all that nonsense.

I’m not a fan of them myself but I cringe at all the performative nonsense from people in this city.
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That's exactly how I see it, faux jigs of delight at an old lady dieing to prove their "true scouse" credentials. Absolute cretins.

They're no better than the forelock tugging bootlickers at the opposite end of the spectrum. Both parties are equally idiotic.
 
I'm against the monarchy having anything to do with ruling the country or having any kind of political or legal powers but I'm OK with them being a tourist attraction that bring money in to our economy.

In the 21st century with a fully functioning government (yes, I know they're all useless idiots but in theory, they should be competent enough to run the country. We're just going through a bad spell at the moment) there should be no need for a monarchy and a government. The Queen pretty much did as she's told and backed the government and their decisions. She doesn't really add any value as a head of state. But as a tourist attraction the monarchy are huge. London in particular thrives on tourism and if we were to take all that away, the economy would suffer.

I'm hoping that Charles will start to bring the Royal family a little bit closer to the real world. Obviously the gap between the normal population and the ridiculously wealthy, over privileged royals is always going to be huge but they can still work towards being more relatable. Charles is only likely to have up to 20 years on the throne before handing over to William who again could be even more progressive and make more changes. The changes are always going to be slow and probably a good 50 years behind where they should be but unless they modernise the calls for the abolition of the monarchy will grow stronger each time a monarch dies.
 


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