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TFN poll: should we abolish the monarchy?

This poll is almost 8 years old
 

​Anti-monarchy pressure group Republic says there should be a referendum on the future of the monarchy when the Queen dies. If there was, how would you vote?

If there was a referendum on the future of the monarchy, how would you vote?

Abolish the monarchy
4720
Keep the monarchy
1633

In case you hadn’t noticed, the Queen is celebrating her 90th birthday.

The monarch has been on the throne more than 60 years and her reign has been celebrated this week with a plethora or articles and look-backs in the press and on TV.

However, one discordant note was sounded by anti-monarchy pressure group Republic, which suggested that when the Queen eventually dies, a referendum should be held on the future of the institution.

It says that the monarchy’s popularity is bound up with the support for the Queen.

Therefore, it says, it is legitimate to ask whether people should have a say on the monarchy’s future after she dies.

Republic’s chief executive Graham Smith said: “In a hereditary monarchy the Queen’s age becomes a political issue. Long before the Queen dies the country will need to debate what happens next.”

So what do you think? If there was a referendum on the future of the monarchy, how would you vote?

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Previn Karian
almost 8 years ago
The monarchy is an obsolete institution which needs to be made redundant. All the land and property given to the royals has been nothing other than theft of what belongs to the British public. This should be returned to the public and the royals should earn their living like the rest of us. We live in a modern democracy and our institutions should reflect this.
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Phil Irlam
almost 8 years ago
It is not needed, out of date, far too costly. And promotes class distinction.
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Avril
almost 8 years ago
The Royal family are an underserving group of benefit scroungers in my opinion. If they had any decency they themselves would be vacating their priviledged positions. Yet they take, take, take from taxpayers as though it was their god given right! It isn't. The deferential era is over, thank goodness. The sooner we get of inherited priviledge the nation will be richer and all closer to becoming a trully democratic country.
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Carolyn Evans
almost 8 years ago
Abolish
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Ross
almost 8 years ago
It's 21st century people, not 11th! Enough with this hereditary corrupt system!
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Dorothy Devlin
almost 8 years ago
abolish, this cancerous family people are starving while this reptile gets another palace mibby instead of giving vermin like this more palaces than they need they should be sorting out the homeless with a roof over their head
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Sandra Hollingsworth
almost 8 years ago
they are there through rape pillage and plunder ...... their greed continues....... sat on millions yet still ask for more ...... this system is totally out dated ..... time to GO
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Dot Holden
almost 8 years ago
I think the time has come to abolish the monarchy - it is not needed and the money paid to the Royal family by the State is needed much more elsewhere. The family is very wealthy and, if they were no longer required to provide any service to the State such as visits overseas, meet/greet visiting officials etc then I am sure their private incomes would be more than sufficient. Don't want to see a Presidential option though - more faff and expense - rather see the Prime Minister and a rotating selection of MP's act as a replacement instead (with only valid expenses open to inspection by the public allowed)
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Linda
almost 8 years ago
In those times she vowed to serve and she has done that. However the financial cost and continuance of the hierarchy of our society led by the royals is no longer required.
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Alice Stafford
almost 8 years ago
the Monarch is out dated.time for them to go.after all she is not Scotland's Queen.I say Abolish the royal family we don't need them
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Helen Annand
almost 8 years ago
I would prefer to have an elected "President" rather than an unelected Monarch who takes money for nothing.
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Alan Mason
almost 8 years ago
I'm not an ant nor am I a bee! Abolish this ridiculous pantomime now! Birthright is no right at all and only perpetuates inbreeding
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Carol Murphy
almost 8 years ago
It's a ridiculous waste of money, outdated. Abolish!
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Pip Williams
almost 8 years ago
Completely out of date concept
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Julie
almost 8 years ago
When you have to change the constitution so her adulterous son , who also married a divorcee of a different faith , can become monarch and defender of the faith. It's time to end this debacle!
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Clar
almost 8 years ago
It does not make sense that we continue to fund the monarchy and her families lavish lifestyle. The media vilifies people on benefits who "sponge" off the state, well the royal family are the biggest spongers!
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michelle
almost 8 years ago
get rid of the parasites, they get paid for doing nothing.....waste of air and time. We will help her pack and kiss her goodbye and her family with her. Ta-ta!
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Yvonne Shepherd
almost 8 years ago
Abolish her and everyone connected to her after all they are just people at the end of the day .... and they use our taxes too!
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Tony Papard
almost 8 years ago
The Monarchy is an outdated institution. It is not consistent with a modern democracy, and it is actually unfair on the heirs to the Throne themselves, being landed with a job for life. If they had any guts they'd renounce the whole institution, or abdicate if already king/queen. It is a lottery who gets to be Head of State, maybe a totally unsuitable person, and they can't be voted out of office. Also they need heirs who are blood children, so suitable partners have to be found. Camilla was not thought suitable, so Diana was found then dumped when she'd produced an heir and a spare. All the money and obscene display of wealth of the royals is obnoxious, as are al the palaces, castles, etc. when so many are homeless. Tourism would still flourish without this institution, and some of the former royal residences could become tourist sites with all rooms open to the public.
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Alice Stafford
almost 8 years ago
Abolish the Monarchy
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I Gloria flynn
almost 8 years ago
Definitely we should abolish the monarchy. There is nothing to be proud of to have a Head of State, whom we didn't vote for in the first place, and still remains head of state decades later. This is not democracy and totally unacceptable in the 21st century.
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simon
almost 8 years ago
Its 2016!!! Are we really gonna keep carrying on this nonsense. Kings and queens and princesses!!! Grow the fuck up.
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Vince
almost 8 years ago
The biggest benefit scroungers in the world a family of true Tory blues. The Monarchy does not care about the poor the sick the disabled It cares about money greed protects pedophiles sex offenders Tax dodgers corruption if rife.
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Mrs T
almost 8 years ago
Not sure how we ended up with royals in the European country in the 21st century... Bunch of people born into privilege who keep marry their cousins and breed. What is the benefit for the rest of us apart from having to pay for their lifestyle?
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William Buchanan
almost 8 years ago
We need to get rid of this poison once and for all, she's a fraud as she isn't even British by blood. The monarchy is holding us back and only remains to satisfy the few which is a slap on the faces of the many who obviously want it abolished.
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Michael
almost 8 years ago
Just give me one good thimg that the queen has done for the nation, it seems to me that she is not working for the people. Just look at our anthem god save the queen how about the rest of us?
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Terry Palfrey
almost 8 years ago
Time to grow up and leave the middle ages behind. Or the Americans can have them, seeing as they worship them so much.
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John McMillan
almost 8 years ago
Long overdue......Oliver Cromwell was quite right, but, unfortunately, too far ahead of his time!
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Maggie Bond
almost 8 years ago
We do not need them. We have to pay fro them from our taxes. Away with them!
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Martin Edmunds
almost 8 years ago
Of course it should be abolished. It has nothing to do with economics either. The idea of any individual or family being entitled to privilege, the position of head of state, or deference as a birth right is an anathema to a modern democratic society.
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murray grant
almost 8 years ago
Elizabeth the last
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Randall Beynon
almost 8 years ago
They are only figure heads. They do nothing but enjoy life to the fullest by doing nothing
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Robert Allan
almost 8 years ago
Make Royalty History
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Helena
almost 8 years ago
In Scotland, the people are sovereign, not the Queen.'Living off the state, a critical guide to royal finance' by Jon Temple, 2008, is an excellent analysis on how the royals operate and how they are cushioned from any real indepth probing into how they manage to hide and manipulate the wealth which has been bestowed on them by the people. The UK cannot call it's self a democracy while the royal family and their hangers on, are awarded massive priveleges for no other reason than being born into it. The poor, disadvantaged and disabled who are being attacked by the tory government deserve much more care, support and respect. The whole situation cannot continue if we want to live in a more equal and modern society. It's like we are being taken backwards at present, let's hope that stops and soon.
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Alyson Thomson
almost 8 years ago
I think it's ridiculous to have a monarchy in the 21st Century.
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Bill Paterson
almost 8 years ago
Definitely abolish. The Queen has done really well but it should finish with her.
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Les Hunter
almost 8 years ago
Monarchy in the twenty first century is an anachronistic legacy of the days when the most successful thief with the biggest sword and the most murders on their record owned the country. Those days are long gone and the accident of which birth canal you emerged from should have absolutely no bearing on your ability to be treated like some god-spawned super being!
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NMac
almost 8 years ago
All she has to do to have a long "reign" is to stay alive and very, very rich people like her tend to live a very, very long time. As a nation we should grow up and elect our Heads of State.
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Sandra Hollingsworth
almost 8 years ago
they are there through rape . pillage and plunder ..... sat on millions ...... never ending greed is totally sickening ...... this is out dated .... why on earth does this continue ....... GO GO GO .....
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Iain Macadie
almost 8 years ago
90 years on benefits, over rated as a tourist attraction. We are all born equal but some still live in the Middle Ages!
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Vicente Bimendi
almost 8 years ago
If Scotland becomes Independent before, then it will only be an English, Wales & Northern Ireland Vote Personally I think this outdated.
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ARCHIE STRACHAN
almost 8 years ago
Time is not on the royal families side. They seem to be a dead family walking...into oblivion and towards 21st century living
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dode muir
almost 8 years ago
Long overdue !
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Bob
almost 8 years ago
Complete abolition of Monarchy and the unelected House of Lords. Only then can we begin to call ourselves a democracy.
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Paul
almost 8 years ago
Why not just obliterate it.
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Alison Rollo
almost 8 years ago
Don't care what England chooses but there is no question an Independent Scotland wants to be a Republic -- sooner the better!!!
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Peter Brennan
almost 8 years ago
Its about time, people have a free vote, and because she's doing pretty well financially, that money could be spent on VITAL operations for kids etc.
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Paul
almost 8 years ago
The royals are out of touch, not needed, a dark spot on democracy... Not long ago Charles actions (when he enforced a middle aged right to dig under homes, tax cuts on his lands,...) proved it!!!
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Philip Brannan
almost 8 years ago
The monarchy has no relevance in a modern democracy it perpetuates class and privalage. When the queen dies so should the monarchy.
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Diane murray
almost 8 years ago
The time has come to stop having unelected heads of state who are holding the position purely by an accident of birth. I admire the Queen for the stamina and impartially she has shown but after her death it is time to stop the monarchy once and for all.
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Mick Fitzgibbons.
almost 8 years ago
Irrespective of the service to the country by the present monarch.It would be good to have a referendum if only to enter into a debate to clear the air over whether the majority feel that the monarchy is a good or bad thing. I personally feel that in this day and age the monarchy in its present form is not an appropriate one. Mainly because of the hereditary, accident of birth succession.
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Peter Serman
almost 8 years ago
Main gripe - what is the point of being the Queen of a country, owning a supposed 1/6th of the planet with an unestimatable wealth, have £100's of millions of pounds spent on you, yet the country has a massive homeless problem, other OAP are living off a crap pension and being forced to either heat their homes or eat! The UK has a massive debt to banks which she could possibly wipe out at the stroke of a pen. In general and as the poll shows, people are fed up with the 1%ers, the Queen included. Her government, who she is not supposed to interfere with, is running the UK into the ground while she sits on her throne supposedly unable to help. She either gets a grip or we give up entirely on any from of unelected head of state.
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Pete Stevens
almost 8 years ago
A mound of medieval muck.Makes us look like Ruritanial backwater. Time for a proper democracy
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Hilary Finch
almost 8 years ago
I think the best thing to do would be to allow the institution of the monarchy to die off when the Queen dies. That way there are no hurt feelings or a sense of ingratitude for her lifetime's service.
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Susannah Greaves
almost 8 years ago
I would prefer a President to be our head of state (like Italy, Germany, etc) but care must be taken that this isn't just a job for a superannuated politician. It should be someone we can all look up to and would be proud to receive an honour or medal from.
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trisha wood
almost 8 years ago
abolish the monarchy as soon as the queen dies
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Anthony Cavanagh
almost 8 years ago
Yup its time to bin what is just a ceremonial head of state
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Val Brown
almost 8 years ago
Would definitely vote for the Monarchy to go.Ever since the Middletons latched on to PW it has become totally meaningless and extremely tacky.
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Alan
almost 8 years ago
I love the queen dearly, snd as long as she reigns - which I hope is for many years to come - I will remain her loyal subject. But on her death I will become a staunch a Republican - especially if her loose moral led son takes her place.
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Kris
almost 8 years ago
Up the Tepublicans!
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Timothy Pape
almost 8 years ago
I believe the majority of people in the country wish to keep the monarchy. If that's the case, then let's incorporate that option in voting forms, and then tax the supporters accordingly. A penny on THEIR income tax for what THEY want. Seems fair
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John Francis
almost 8 years ago
Elizabeth II has been a great queen and now would be a good time to quit. Let the monarchy finish on a high note. God Save the Queen; Goodbye!!
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Colin Docherty
almost 8 years ago
I think the Queen deserves recognition for the public service she has provided over her 90 years. However, I believe she should mark the conclusion of constitutional monarchy, and that we need reform thereafter.
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Emma Dent Coad
almost 8 years ago
I love you Scotland!
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STEVEB
almost 8 years ago
"I remember, I remember when my world was hardly grown And the daughter of a dead dull king ascended to the throne And though I was just a lad at school, I saw it all with scorn The solemn, sacred emptiness, the monumental yawn And the slime exuding daily from the sycophantic slugs And the Coronation ash trays and the Coronation mugs And the rows of ermined mummies with their maggot-eaten brains All the swarms of bloated blowflies the majestic turd sustains...." ON HER SILVER JUBILEE, Leon Rosselson.
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Ronnie MacThomas
almost 8 years ago
The basic tenet that all men and women are equal is the foundation of Republic. Monarchy is the kingpin of the Aristocracy, the Establishment. That which embodies everything right minded folk stand against.
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dale
almost 8 years ago
do there care about us
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Mervyn Drage
about 2 years ago

Get rid of the parasitical Monarchy and Crown dictatorship. Have an elected Republic

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Andrew Henderson
almost 8 years ago
The ultimate reference point from which a society grounded upon a modus operandi of inherited privilege is oriented.
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Malcolm Horley
about 2 years ago

CROMWELL should have finished the job?!

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Malcolm Horley
about 2 years ago

CROMWELL should have finished the job?!

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Martyn Key
about 2 years ago

Unelected overrated tourist attraction. Pointless.

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I Love
11 months ago

Time to abolish the monarchy, Put the money in to good courses, ie. NHS, for starters. Charles is worth an estimated 600 million apparently, taxes payer's money 💰 more lije he's never done a day's hard graft in is life. So get rid.

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Geoff Andrews
almost 8 years ago
what sort of morons are you lot, she is a big money spinner for this country and a great ambassador, try visiting Buckingham palace and see the crowds!!
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Lyn
about 3 years ago

William will make a better King than Charles William is an honourable man Charles is not When will there be an investigation:into any taxpayer money spent on Camillas security and are her children tax benefits Does she still own Raymill house and who pays for security on property

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Polythenehigh
almost 8 years ago
Sad bunch on here and obvious this vote has been hijacked and advertised on specific pages to create a false impression. Majority of Brits want to keep the monarchy, I know dozens of people who have benefited from charities set up and supported by them. The vast majority of the funding goes on maintaining the estates they use which would still require funding if it was abolished just removes the special events they provide and he public interest we receive worldwide. Setting up and maintaining a presidency as an additional cost would dwarf the actual running costs of the monarchy after maintenance is removed. Put this to a referendum so we can put the anti monarchists back in their box for awhile.
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John Adams
almost 8 years ago
Keep. How unifying would President Thatcher or Blair would have been. Or any other smooth talking bastard?
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John hughes
over 1 year ago

Ithink some of the comments on here are so disrespective to a Queen who has steadfastly served our british islands! I agree that the civil list should be shortened to a list that serves us well and the hangers on should be eliminated! I think what people should debate properly is the contradiction of the wealth of the royal family and the state of amount of homelessness and poverty in the uk! I know they are unelected but that is not through any fault of their own! Isay keep the royal family but it needs to be cut drastically and only funded by the taxpayer to main family and not beyond! I think rightly that republicans have always had a problem wwith the class divide which shows between the aristocracy the middle classes and beyond to the working classes! We will always have this problem until the salaries of the working classes and the middle classes start to meet with the richest people in the land! There is enough money in gb to propogate this but the aristocracy will always want to keep the status quo so nothing will change! What we have to remember is that the laws and rules governing the wealth of the royals were made many centuries ago but despite all this I think after looking into all this that the main figurehead royals are a good thing for the prosperity and stability of gb! Its a blessing for Andrew that he wasnt born some 400 yrs ago or he would be joining the princes in the tower! Long live the king!

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C Petrie
almost 8 years ago
Another poll high jacked by nats.......no wonder they are deluded , they believe their high jacked polls!!!!
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Davie R
almost 8 years ago
Why bother with a referendum? Sue Townsend got it about right with 'The Queen and I'.
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Maurice Wright
about 3 years ago

Should the Monarchy be abolished? ABSOLUTELY NOT! I would much rather have a constitutional monarchy as head of state than live in a republic with someone like President Macron or Trump and head of state. Also, with the benefit of the Crown Estate, a constitutional monarcharchy is less of a burden on the tax payer.

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Marcos Cardoso
almost 8 years ago
you bunch of twats republics are corrupt, presidents around the work take more then the whole royal family per year, the Portuguese president expends 220 million a year and royal family 140 million... learn guys when a president rape your ass for money you will see.
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Martin
almost 8 years ago
Shout and moan all you like the Royal family is here and here for the formidable future. Deal way it
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Avril McKenzie
almost 8 years ago
Some of the comments are vile. Hate the Crown but love the half crown brigade, out in force.
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Nora kerr
almost 8 years ago
Our queen is the envy of the world and many wish they had the history that goes with it
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Calum Sinclair
almost 8 years ago
Keep our sovereign,we have the best type of government,the sovereign can sack the prime minister . We don't want to become a republic.
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Marie Harriet Thompson
about 3 years ago

I’m no royalist I loved Diana and I’m well read but I don’t want to think that this country I love would have the equivalent to the ?? please don’t think for a minute that we would have a president I hope it never happens they bring in a lot of money and we’re the envy of the world I hope I don’t live to see the royal family absent

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Rena Simpson
almost 8 years ago
I would not like to live in a republic, though being Scottish I may have to, but I will always vote for The Royal Family, a pared down version might be better once Charles succeeds, I think he intends to do this.
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Cliff Morgan
almost 8 years ago
Many simply don't understand the monarchy and how much it brings to the United Kingdom, it costs the UK very little but adds greatly to the public purse. Its future is and will continue to thrive despite the usual Nat/republican socialists dirty public laundry out unwashed!
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William Leith
almost 8 years ago
I have always believed in the monarchy and always will
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DavidCarrick
almost 8 years ago
God save our Queen
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ANDREW SAYERS
almost 8 years ago
Looking forward to the vote to expell republicans fron the UK
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D Gray
almost 8 years ago
Let's expunge the third verse.Thats the one with the line about aims and objectives with the words "REBELIOUS SCOTS TO CRUSH" .This is clearly unacceptable in the 21st C.As an anthem its dull and boring lyrically and musically. Having said that it's worth keeping the monarchy .We are primates and social hierarchy is necessary for maintaining stability in the structure. Proletarianism recapitulates totalitarianism.God save the queen.
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Elaine
almost 8 years ago
Absolute bull. The monarchy and its history is a major part of UK the business. Next you'll be saying knock down all castles and stately houses. Get a life and vote on something important.
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K Chelaghma
almost 8 years ago
You all need to get real and updated facts before you start spouting rubbish.
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Daniel
almost 8 years ago
I believe that it is just a plain insult to all our country stands for to bing the monarch into question. I hope you all know that she receives 40m from the government but pays them back 126m form her estates in a deal running from king George III so those who think they live off public money are just plain wrong! God Save the Queen! Also you repulicans should pay back your tax break the queen gives you, as you are clearly ungrateful and have a lack of british patriotism. I say if you don't like it bugger off somewhere else!
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Lynn
almost 8 years ago
If you watched any of the TV coverage from Windsor yesterday you will see that our Queen is loved by people in and far beyond this country. The future generations of her family will continue her legacy and I don't grudge a penny to support this. As for the extended family members, no, they shouldn't receive public money.
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Kim
almost 8 years ago
Keep her and the whole family. I'll say no more.
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D McClung
almost 8 years ago
If Charles is to succeed the throne after Queen Elizabeth I would vote to abolish the monarchy but if Prince William was to succeed the throne I would vote to keep it
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Nik Gibson
almost 8 years ago
If we went towards an elected representative, a president, as opposed to a monarch, the country would lose a massive amount of tourist financial income. The Queen works bloody hard for her country, working many hours unbecoming of her age. I wish I had her energy. Her Majesty is currently trying to nurse a very sick country back into health, and with a government that is making it worse. Being politically neutral she cannot directly intervene. Her offspring travel abroad to generate jobs and trade with many other countries, but this is seldom seen by the public. Most only see the state events with the obscenely effluent trappings that go with it, and they resent that. I served my Queen, and my country in the armed forces to maintain the status of the country and that includes keeping the monarchy. I am disgusted that I wasted my time for those who have not served, who have no idea what being loyal to ones country is about. Get used to the idea that Her Majesty isn't going to stand down, she has already stated that it is her job for life, and, assuming he doesn't die, Charles will be the next King! God save the Queen
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Arthur Edwards
almost 8 years ago
HM does a great job long may she reign
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John kennedy
almost 8 years ago
Keep our British ways alive Our monarch is a way of life
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Jessie Bauchope Young
almost 8 years ago
I think we should keep the Monarchy, but it must be scaled down. Only the reigning King/Queen, plus the first 3 in line to the throne should be kept at public expense. Too many people think if we abolish the Monarchy, the money saved will somehow filter down to the public, but of course it won't. It would go in to the hands of some El Presidento--for anyone who thinks being a republic is a good thing, just go and do some research--most end up with corruption ath the highest level, with most people being kept in abject poverty.Long live the Queen.
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E Phillips
almost 8 years ago
What a complete load of rubbish. The reason the BBC have showed so much of the Queens birthday is entirely because there would be a public uproar if they didn't. In short - they are showing what the majority of the public want to see. As for the unelected succession argument have everybody forgotten times such as when Gordon Brown succeeded to be Prime Minister after Tony Blair with no public election. The monarchy do a fantastic job raising millions for charity. Prince Charles alone had raised hundreds of millions over his public life with charitable trusts such as The Princes Trust. As for cost? Well a presidency would cost far more and we all know how politicians handle public money! The money the Queen does get goes mainly on government business they give her to conduct and maintaining public buildings such as Buckingham Palace. This would all still have to be paid if we had a republic. Only without the continuity, security and cause for public celebration that we get now. To celebrate the Monarch is not to celebrate an individual but to celebrate the nation. It is celebrating ourselves.
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Robert Richmond
almost 8 years ago
There is no finer system than that of a democratic Monarchy.Every one can respect the Queen from any political party. An elected President would be hated by at least 50% of the country.It would also cost money and likely to be corrupt. PMs who do not take notice of what the Queens says at their weekly meetings is a fool. She seen all state papers since she came to the throne.
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Peter Hunt
almost 8 years ago
Disgusted with the comments, royal family generate £millions in tourism, they facilitate £billions in world trade and are a part of our British heritage and history. I say get rid of immigrants and freeloading polititions first! I served the United Kingdom in the Armed Forces, became disabled doing it too. I firmly believe I served the Queen, her Aires and Successors.
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Nat cole
almost 8 years ago
The monarchy represents a steady continuation of our country's representation on the world stage throughout the turmoil of idiots we have passing through no:10. What knobber started and fuelled a bullshit questionnaire like this? Some progressive hard done by pinko that want to lash out at some kind of perceived privilege from some misguided sense of entitlement? Or am I being presumptuous? Reading some of the comments here questioning "What has she ever done for our country?" Well, she served in the military in times of war, not to mention providing a steadfast figurhead to the country. I might ask the question of What have all the naysayer keyboard warriors on here ever done for their country? Keep the monarchy. Long live the Queen.
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Bernadette Riddle
almost 8 years ago
Leave our Royal Family alone they are here to stay. 1) I do not want to be run by dictatorship 2) I wish the Royal family had a lot more say
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andy
almost 8 years ago
God forbid we end up with a president Corbyn or Cameron, do any of the anti Monarchists stop to think how much cost is offset by the number of foreign visitors the Royals attract.no body waits outside the White House in the hope of seeing a President --(unless they 've got a rifle)--
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