| What kind of King and royal family would you now like to see? 11:05 - Sep 13 with 3577 views | MattinLondon |
What with the accession of a new King, do you think it’s time for a new approach from royality? Or would you like it to stay exactly how it is?
Ideally I’d like to see the Royal Family retired and replaced by a republic but this isn’t going to happen anytime soon. So ideally, I’d like to see the Royal Family streamlined with them paying full tax on all of their income and assets. I don’t mind Charles highlighting issues such as the environment but this could alienate some as well as irritating government.
Just wondered what other peoples views were on this. |  | | |  |
| What kind of King and royal family would you now like to see? on 15:20 - Sep 13 with 755 views | leitrimblue |
I would also accept someone who could show a strong blood link to Boudicca |  | | |
| What kind of King and royal family would you now like to see? on 15:20 - Sep 13 with 755 views | WeWereZombies |
I can but hope for a trimmed down Royal family, Charles III showed little appetite for a light retinue before his accession and I expect we will be served the full KFC bucket going forward. But from a Hobbesian point of view I want to see the hereditary role of Monarch as Sovereign retained, and for the new King to be as active in maintaining an apolitical involvement in the affairs of our four nations as the old Queen did. One area especially important in that regard is to steady the Punch and Judy game that too many politicians play on the environment, I hate the phrase 'hold their feet to the fire' but that is what a Sovereign needs to do to keep them on track and keep the 1.5 alive (this applies to all nineteen realms and not just the home nations alone.)
Any progress that can be made towards a federal Britain that lessens the gulf between Great Britain and the island of Ireland would be a master stroke, the work Elizabeth II started with Mary Robinson and Michael D. Higgins needs to be picked up and continued. |  |
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| What kind of King and royal family would you now like to see? on 15:28 - Sep 13 with 739 views | Swansea_Blue |
| What kind of King and royal family would you now like to see? on 11:52 - Sep 13 by chicoazul |
I have no idea why so many of you want a President. Haven’t you learned anything at all since 2010? |
Indeed. It's because we only seem to have 2 alternatives and the current one is all a bit pointless, but at least not dangerous (unless you're a teenage girl, or a mixed-race commoner who marries into it!).
We could have a prize draw, with one lucky winner being the Head of State for a 3 year term. It'd be good entertainment, fairer and every bit as functional as the current system. You'd need to retain the advisors and such like to ensure smooth transition. |  |
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| What kind of King and royal family would you now like to see? on 15:29 - Sep 13 with 734 views | SuperKieranMcKenna |
| What kind of King and royal family would you now like to see? on 12:09 - Sep 13 by BlueBadger |
A nonce-free one. |
Interesting down vote there… |  | | |
| What kind of King and royal family would you now like to see? on 15:31 - Sep 13 with 730 views | SuperKieranMcKenna |
| What kind of King and royal family would you now like to see? on 14:28 - Sep 13 by chicoazul |
I am talking specifically about our country. TWTD is always telling me how thick the electorate are, can you believe they voted for Brexit, can you believe they voted for 12 years of Tories ad nauseum. And now TWTD wants those same people to vote for a President gifted enormous power.
You won’t end up with Oliver Cromwell Jeremy Corbyn or Leon Trotsky; it’d be Nigel Farage or David Cameron. This is why I say I don’t understand why you don’t learn anything from history (not you personally you understand). |
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| What kind of King and royal family would you now like to see? on 16:17 - Sep 13 with 684 views | Kropotkin123 |
The most natural transition I see for our system is a president sitting in top of the House of Lords. So I'd like that to be further reformed into a more democratic structure.
I would also like parliament reformed so we don't have clientelism and voting structure that encourages people to vote for who they want to represent them, not who they don't want to represent them.
I would like the monarchy to be reformed so we can have a smooth transition to a Republic. Defunding peripheral royalty would also be prudent.
Basically put in the ground work for a Republic that would fit our system, rather than trying to copy something like the American system.
In the mean time I'm looking forward to countries like Jamaica and Antigua and Barbuda voting on becoming Republics. It would be great to see Australia and Canada bring in similar votes, which would inevitably devalue to monarchy, if successful. |  |
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| What kind of King and royal family would you now like to see? on 16:55 - Sep 13 with 674 views | noggin |
| What kind of King and royal family would you now like to see? on 11:16 - Sep 13 by usm |
A supported and respected one |
So as it is? |  |
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| What kind of King and royal family would you now like to see? on 17:13 - Sep 13 with 649 views | Radlett_blue |
| What kind of King and royal family would you now like to see? on 15:20 - Sep 13 by leitrimblue |
I would also accept someone who could show a strong blood link to Boudicca |
You may need to apply to exhume Boudica's body from under platforms 9 & 10 at King's Cross Station.
Myself & some irreverent workmates nicknamed a strident female colleague "Boadicea" in the mid 1980s. I don't think she liked this. |  |
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| What kind of King and royal family would you now like to see? on 17:16 - Sep 13 with 648 views | noggin |
| What kind of King and royal family would you now like to see? on 14:28 - Sep 13 by chicoazul |
I am talking specifically about our country. TWTD is always telling me how thick the electorate are, can you believe they voted for Brexit, can you believe they voted for 12 years of Tories ad nauseum. And now TWTD wants those same people to vote for a President gifted enormous power.
You won’t end up with Oliver Cromwell Jeremy Corbyn or Leon Trotsky; it’d be Nigel Farage or David Cameron. This is why I say I don’t understand why you don’t learn anything from history (not you personally you understand). |
You're fed up of hearing that the electorate are thick but given the opportunity, they would indeed prove that they are even thicker than we thought. Is that what you're saying? | |
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| What kind of King and royal family would you now like to see? on 17:30 - Sep 13 with 633 views | fab_lover |
I think it is possible to keep a monarchy and yet it not occupy centre stage. Holland and Denmark great examples of this. I was in Demark last weekend, it was the Queen's 50th jubilee but you couldn't tell that. Danes I spoke to spoke of how their Queen was a "real person", who did real jobs and had real talents.
Firstly we have to tie the bond between Church and State. Other than Iran (!) no other countries put unelected clerics in the legislature. C3 is obviously no god-botherer, now's the time to cut that cord.
Buckingham Palace becomes their own home. Big enough for all of them. Windsor, Sandringham, Balmoral go back to the people.
Only heirs are Royals. Spares have to go and get work like the rest of us.
No State opening of Parliament. Royal Assent is meaningless, we don't need it any more.
Let them fade into the background. And pay their &*& taxes ! |  | | |
| What kind of King and royal family would you now like to see? on 17:53 - Sep 13 with 613 views | Radlett_blue |
| What kind of King and royal family would you now like to see? on 17:30 - Sep 13 by fab_lover |
I think it is possible to keep a monarchy and yet it not occupy centre stage. Holland and Denmark great examples of this. I was in Demark last weekend, it was the Queen's 50th jubilee but you couldn't tell that. Danes I spoke to spoke of how their Queen was a "real person", who did real jobs and had real talents.
Firstly we have to tie the bond between Church and State. Other than Iran (!) no other countries put unelected clerics in the legislature. C3 is obviously no god-botherer, now's the time to cut that cord.
Buckingham Palace becomes their own home. Big enough for all of them. Windsor, Sandringham, Balmoral go back to the people.
Only heirs are Royals. Spares have to go and get work like the rest of us.
No State opening of Parliament. Royal Assent is meaningless, we don't need it any more.
Let them fade into the background. And pay their &*& taxes ! |
Great points here. The reason the Royals have been given such huge tax breaks is that the government hated the regular scrutiny of the Civil List (replaced by the Sovereign Grant) so preferred to let them build up their own resources. Another clever bit of sleight of hand, which leads pro royalists to come out with the statement that it only costs us £1:29 pp per year, which conveniently ignores the tax breaks. The queen used her exemption for inheritance tax to put £ms into a Trust, which will no doubt be used to dole out tax free £ms to her grandchildren | |
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| What kind of King and royal family would you now like to see? on 18:05 - Sep 13 with 606 views | BlueBadger |
| What kind of King and royal family would you now like to see? on 15:29 - Sep 13 by SuperKieranMcKenna |
Interesting down vote there… |
Interesting where the line in the sand comes for our avowed anti wokists and free speech advocates, no calling out bigotry or bullying, no speaking out about corruption, criminality and incompetence, no demonstrating you give a sh1t about others or the planet but let's show some deference to a man who chose to associate with a known paedophile and sex trafficker for YEARS. |  |
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| What kind of King and royal family would you now like to see? on 18:12 - Sep 13 with 605 views | Mullet |
He's not even paying inheritance tax is he?
For me, they should be given one house per child of Liz, Buckingham Palace and Balmoral handed over to the country and can be run as tourist attractions/conservation areas. The stupid and false arguments about tourism can be satiated, and with it all titles repealed.
Land, assets and wealth can be returned to state with a focus on protecting land in AONB where relevant and generating money ringfenced for health and education exclusively. Lining them up and murdering them like the French or Russians seems bad taste and unsuitable for what is essentially circumstance rather than direct acts against the country. |  |
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| What kind of King and royal family would you now like to see? on 18:20 - Sep 13 with 588 views | Radlett_blue |
| What kind of King and royal family would you now like to see? on 18:12 - Sep 13 by Mullet |
He's not even paying inheritance tax is he?
For me, they should be given one house per child of Liz, Buckingham Palace and Balmoral handed over to the country and can be run as tourist attractions/conservation areas. The stupid and false arguments about tourism can be satiated, and with it all titles repealed.
Land, assets and wealth can be returned to state with a focus on protecting land in AONB where relevant and generating money ringfenced for health and education exclusively. Lining them up and murdering them like the French or Russians seems bad taste and unsuitable for what is essentially circumstance rather than direct acts against the country. |
Again, the Queen mother's £70m estate was not subject to IHT & the establishment were as desperate as ever to keep everything about the will and estate secret. | |
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| What kind of King and royal family would you now like to see? on 18:26 - Sep 13 with 575 views | factual_blue |
A few years of Henry VIII rapaciousness, greed and cruelty.
When the monarch gets fed up with his chief minister, he has them executed on trumped-up charges. |  |
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| What kind of King and royal family would you now like to see? on 18:28 - Sep 13 with 571 views | ronnyd |
| What kind of King and royal family would you now like to see? on 17:30 - Sep 13 by fab_lover |
I think it is possible to keep a monarchy and yet it not occupy centre stage. Holland and Denmark great examples of this. I was in Demark last weekend, it was the Queen's 50th jubilee but you couldn't tell that. Danes I spoke to spoke of how their Queen was a "real person", who did real jobs and had real talents.
Firstly we have to tie the bond between Church and State. Other than Iran (!) no other countries put unelected clerics in the legislature. C3 is obviously no god-botherer, now's the time to cut that cord.
Buckingham Palace becomes their own home. Big enough for all of them. Windsor, Sandringham, Balmoral go back to the people.
Only heirs are Royals. Spares have to go and get work like the rest of us.
No State opening of Parliament. Royal Assent is meaningless, we don't need it any more.
Let them fade into the background. And pay their &*& taxes ! |
Balmoral and Sandringham are both owned by the Crown Estates, which means the Monarch. But they can't flog them off to raise cash. The rest i think, are owned by the State. | | | |
| What kind of King and royal family would you now like to see? on 18:29 - Sep 13 with 561 views | factual_blue |
| What kind of King and royal family would you now like to see? on 18:12 - Sep 13 by Mullet |
He's not even paying inheritance tax is he?
For me, they should be given one house per child of Liz, Buckingham Palace and Balmoral handed over to the country and can be run as tourist attractions/conservation areas. The stupid and false arguments about tourism can be satiated, and with it all titles repealed.
Land, assets and wealth can be returned to state with a focus on protecting land in AONB where relevant and generating money ringfenced for health and education exclusively. Lining them up and murdering them like the French or Russians seems bad taste and unsuitable for what is essentially circumstance rather than direct acts against the country. |
As many an accounting lecturer will tell you, IHT is paid only by the stupid. [Post edited 13 Sep 2022 18:37]
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| What kind of King and royal family would you now like to see? on 18:31 - Sep 13 with 544 views | Radlett_blue |
| What kind of King and royal family would you now like to see? on 18:28 - Sep 13 by ronnyd |
Balmoral and Sandringham are both owned by the Crown Estates, which means the Monarch. But they can't flog them off to raise cash. The rest i think, are owned by the State. |
No, Sandringham & Balmoral are personally owned by the Sovereign, as are a few peripheral residences. Buckingham Palace & Windsor are owned by the Crown Estate. | |
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| What kind of King and royal family would you now like to see? on 18:31 - Sep 13 with 544 views | GeoffSentence |
| What kind of King and royal family would you now like to see? on 11:14 - Sep 13 by Darth_Koont |
Pretty much the same as you.
But for our monarchy to slip into the background much more like the other European monarchies, it needs to be untangled from the “constitutional” arrangement much more.
So probably needs to be seen as part/side effect of wider political and constitutional reform. Which to be fair is decades, perhaps even a century, overdue. |
That's pretty much how I feel. Ideally, we shouldn't have a royal family at all, but from a practical perspective lots of people like them for all the fairy tale stuff and hand waving. Leave them to do that but remove all political powers and influence would be fine for me. |  |
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| What kind of King and royal family would you now like to see? on 18:33 - Sep 13 with 536 views | Radlett_blue |
| What kind of King and royal family would you now like to see? on 18:26 - Sep 13 by factual_blue |
A few years of Henry VIII rapaciousness, greed and cruelty.
When the monarch gets fed up with his chief minister, he has them executed on trumped-up charges. |
Sounds like President Putin's regime. | |
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| What kind of King and royal family would you now like to see? on 18:36 - Sep 13 with 530 views | factual_blue |
| What kind of King and royal family would you now like to see? on 18:33 - Sep 13 by Radlett_blue |
Sounds like President Putin's regime. |
Pretty much - but with more disembowelling. | |
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| What kind of King and royal family would you now like to see? on 18:48 - Sep 13 with 510 views | Mullet |
| What kind of King and royal family would you now like to see? on 18:29 - Sep 13 by factual_blue |
As many an accounting lecturer will tell you, IHT is paid only by the stupid. [Post edited 13 Sep 2022 18:37]
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I'm not paying twice! | |
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| What kind of King and royal family would you now like to see? on 18:52 - Sep 13 with 504 views | positivity |
martin luther
pretty much agree with you; in an ideal world it would be abolished, but there's so many more important things that take precedence (climate change, poverty, voting changes, house of lords etc etc etc) that it feels frivolous to spend the massive amount of time it'd take to bring it in. | |
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| What kind of King and royal family would you now like to see? on 19:20 - Sep 13 with 498 views | chicoazul |
| What kind of King and royal family would you now like to see? on 17:16 - Sep 13 by noggin |
You're fed up of hearing that the electorate are thick but given the opportunity, they would indeed prove that they are even thicker than we thought. Is that what you're saying? |
No. I didn’t say I’m fed up of anything. |  |
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