As I said in a comment on your post on FB, until the whole Brexit debacle, I had fallen for the "But would you want President Thatcher/Blair/Johnson" argument. That's what kept me just about supporting a monarch. The other thing that I believed was the idea that the monarch would stand as the last bulwark against a rogue government. But it turns out that the monarch is just an incredibly expensive rubber stamp and has no actual power to stop the government anything, even things things that are subsequently deemed illegal by the High Court.
As you say, the Irish seem to have got a good system. We just need a few simple rules such as: No one who has held elected government office is eligible to stand and probably a minimum age of, say, 40 to avoid people voting for the latest Love Island winner. (Shades of Boaty McBoatface!). We can then get rid of the family, make them work for their living and open all the palaces to tourists and that really might boost tourist numbers.
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Date: 2023-05-02 10:00 am (UTC)As you say, the Irish seem to have got a good system. We just need a few simple rules such as: No one who has held elected government office is eligible to stand and probably a minimum age of, say, 40 to avoid people voting for the latest Love Island winner. (Shades of Boaty McBoatface!). We can then get rid of the family, make them work for their living and open all the palaces to tourists and that really might boost tourist numbers.