Britain is in trouble

[Fidel_Castronaut]

I realise that republicanism is unpopular in the Uk, but eventually the royals will be removed by political mandate from the people.

If you remove something, you need to fill the hole that they have left in their place.
I already said that the crown is the foundation of the British nation, and without the crown "United Kingdom" will soon be "Divided nation states", compromising Scotland, England, perhaps Wales, and also Northern Ireland, which will probably be thrown into another turmoil, as Ireland surely will try to take over, and the protestants will flee to England, creating another crisis.
If the people wanted to remove the Royals, they would have done so long ago, when the great Dynasties of Europe fell, in Germany, Austria, France, Italy and etc.
They didn't, and I don't think they will any time soon.

Gobbeldygook. Nothing to of substance to respond to. What was true yesterday of popular opinion may not be true tomorrow. Which I thought I made pretty clear.

But it is a relic of an era no longer relevant to the modern world. Republicanism will one day win out, and I will be glad for it.

Well, which era? It encompasses several eras, it has seen the French revolution, the Russian revolution...It should have been irrevelant back then, based on your words.
The Russians replaced Monarchy with yet another Monarchy. The Monarchy of a Communist dictatorship.
The French have not replaced it with anything, and they've fucked up ever since, with no real national glue in place.
And what will you replace the Monarchy with?

Era's where monarchies were the sovereign ruler and comprised the sole authority in the legislature.

That is no longer the case, obviously and evidently. What would I replace it with? I am not in a position to replace it with anything, I am part of the people that mandates changes through popular vote.

A republic still has a head of state, but an elected one. So I'd go with that.

Christianity is an irrelevant relic to the Britain now, especially the Anglican churches.

Oh come on! The Anglican Church is a part of your damn fucking heritage. It symbolizes your independence Rome.

Nope.

The independence of Rome was garnered from the treaty of westphalia in 1648 proceeding the 30 years war. Anglican episcopalianism was a convenient get out clause for an illegitimate monarch in order to bypass inconvenient decisions from the papacy.

It had nothing to do with wanting independence of the pope (which was obviously a good thing), and everything to do with ego.

To the laity, the transition from Catholicism to Anglicanism meant nothing unless you disagreed. Then, you were more than likely summarily executed. In hindsight, the CofE et al were no better than the pope.

Regardless of what nonsense diatribe you want out retort with, the Anglican Church is no completely irrelevant to all but a minority of the population. No point in having an established, irrelevant institution that does nothing.

To be clear, the CofE et so represent Jack shit to me and the majority of the UK's population. It is irrelevant.

You throw away two main aspects of the British nation without blinking, yet you have nothing else to show.
Disestablish the Anglican Church, and condemn the Protestants in Northern Ireland to their fates.

No evidence of that. Merely assertion based on little fact. The troubles have certainly not gone away, but reconciliation amongst political and religious communities in NI has certainly become much more entrenched by all but a minority of fringe republican and unionist groups.

Oh, and also, where on earth have you got the idea in your head that it's the Anglican Church(es) ensuring that NI remains apart of the UK? Political, social and economic machinations play as big, if not a bigger, role in deciding the fate of NI than any silly, long forgotten religious dispute do.

Disestablish the Anglican Church and allow for another long lasting presence of the Vatican in England.

Laughable! The biggest catholic presence in the UK are the catholic faith schools, almost entirely funded by the UK government! Abolish that funding, and watch those schools go bye bye. Long overdue.

The demographics of catholic belief in the UK are almost as small as Anglicanism.

Remember that your Church is actually not a true protestant Church, its merely an offspring of the mainstream Catholic church, and people will soon look forward to a new patriarch to be their spiritual leader.
After you disestablish the Anglican Church(which requires you to abolish the Monarchy first), what are you gonna do?

Vast overestimation of the place religion occupied in the public sphere in the UK. I don't blame you for not knowing much about it not being from here, but where do you get the evidence form that people will want a new 'spiritual patriarch'(??? No idea what that means). There are only a few religions that are seeing growth in the UK; black minority Christian sects, Islam, and the odd sect of Hinduism and Sikhism. All other forms of Christianity are becomming irrelevant. Methodism for example will pretty much be gone in the next two decades on current trends.

As to your question, what would I replace it with? Nothing. That's kind of the point. No need for any religious head to be anywhere near the commons or the lords.

There's greater political and social will today for disestablishment than there ever was.

I think that those are enough to make UK into a no-mans land to be ripped apart by native and foreign ethnic minorities.

EVIDENCE

They can sustain themselves. As my post above says, the duchy of Cornwall alone brings in tens of millions to Charles.

Well, after the abolishment of the said Monarchy institution, there won't be a "duchy".

Good! :-)
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They can live off his income and be happy with that. Social Security benefits are either income- or contribution-based. I doubt they've made many National Insurance contributions, not actually having paid jobs, and their savings would rule out the other. Of course if any of them want to get work, I know some cracking job sites.

Well, since their income is based on the hereditary titles and belongings that are tied to those titles, abolishing the monarchy would require you to seize those belongings, leaving the Royals, the Barons, Lords and others with no income.
OF course, that spells "revolution" to me.

Hereditary peers that have not had their peerages renewed following HOL reforms have not had their lands or income seized.

Why are you hung up on bloody revolutions? It's utter nonsense to perpetuate that as an inevitability following what it relatively minor reforms given the desire for the UKs population to disestablish the irrelevant church and remove its peerages.

I know you're hung up on nationalism and all that horseshit, but really, not everyone in the world is so backwards thinking as you are.

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Britain is a muslim country

Moron.

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If I were to advocate the things you did, I'd advocate that they be done by the only way that they are possible. Revolution. And yes, I'm a man that values action.
The only way you can strip those people of their hereditery titles, which are, by the way, legitimate under your laws, is to topple the law, topple the goverment, and establish a new law and a new government which you can do only by toppling the constitution, and I do not think that any of these can be done in a peaceful way, or by a referandum.
You are speaking of something that you cannot stand behind with a solid argument, but instead present your daydreaming as if it was an acceptable argument.

Maybe you should actually research what you're talking about before commenting about it?

So, when you say the only way to abolish peerages and hereditary titles is to seize their lands and topple the government? You could have done a simple google search that in fact pointed out what peerages have already been removed and that both the government and the people favour a wholly elected HOL and are (slowly) moving in that direction.

Just wanted to show you why your entire point is actually wrong:

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1999/34/contents

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If I were to advocate the things you did, I'd advocate that they be done by the only way that they are possible. Revolution. And yes, I'm a man that values action.
The only way you can strip those people of their hereditery titles, which are, by the way, legitimate under your laws, is to topple the law, topple the goverment, and establish a new law and a new government which you can do only by toppling the constitution, and I do not think that any of these can be done in a peaceful way, or by a referandum.
You are speaking of something that you cannot stand behind with a solid argument, but instead present your daydreaming as if it was an acceptable argument.

Maybe you should actually research what you're talking about before commenting about it?

So, when you say the only way to abolish peerages and hereditary titles is to seize their lands and topple the government? You could have done a simple google search that in fact pointed out what peerages have already been removed and that both the government and the people favour a wholly elected HOL and are (slowly) moving in that direction.

Just wanted to show you why your entire point is actually wrong:

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1999/34/contents