Alternate History

[Ace Otana]

No power?!? Perhaps you should get more angry; the Queen can do pretty much anything. She has a right to rule; she can dissolve parliament (and not just on request), and declare wars. She even gets to overrule the voice of the people and choose a PM if she so wishes. It's fascism all dressed up to look pretty and distracting.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2002/may...da.jubilee

Kick the queen off her throne, and give us the republic we deserve.

Adrian, if I could get away with taking the "royal" family's heads off I would! I hate them as much as you do. If I remember, there was a point in history when Britain had no monarchy. Mid 16 hundreds if I remember correctly. We hanged the king and the rest of the royal family had to leave or face certain death. Turns out the country went shit since parliment couldn't run the country very well (kinda like now) so they brought the royal family back and it kinda balanced itself out. I've seen the royal statues of the kings head that had been destroyed by anti-royalists during the English civil war.

Would be nice to have no monarchy. But as much as I do dislike them, we kinda need them. If the government went stupid(er) the queen could just step in and stop it. There is a balance between perliment and the monarchy. Both in charge of leading the country and it's people. One can over throw the other if need be.
I actually got banned from a monarchy forum for writing an anti-monarch thing in my sig.