(May 8, 2015 at 9:23 am)StuW Wrote: So we should dissolve something that doesn't have any effect on the very problems we are discussing?

We were talking about modernising the system of governance yes?
Whether the monarchy actually has an effect on British politics or whether they have any real power is irrelevant to the point.
What Iroscato brought up was modernisation. If you think getting rid of the monarchy isn't a way to modernise the system of government, regardless of whether the monarchy has any actual power, then whatever.