For most Brits, at least by my estimation, have fairly complicated feelings towards the Monarchy that often cannot really be expressed. Many Brits aren't monarc

For most Brits, at least by my estimation, have fairly complicated feelings towards the Monarchy that often cannot really be expressed. Many Brits aren't monarchists but 'Elizabethans', but now that the Queen has passed, those complicated feelings that were kept at bay by the public's genuine affection for the Queen are now rearing their head. The King, and I suppose the Royal Family in general, aren't doing themselves any favours either. That being said, we aren't shown really any examples of good republicanism. We know that a Monarchy is weird, that this is the 21st century, that a birthright to rule is medieval... but what's the alternative? No really, what's the alternative? We look at America with its independent, co-equal executive in horror. We don't want that. And then we look at France, whose President just forced through a rise in the retirement age against the will of the Parliament. We don't want that either. Having an elected President inherently means that they'll have a democratic mandate, so there'll always be questions of whether they should be granted more power, or whether the President has the mandate to exercise power. There's great usefulness to having a Head of State who's not involved in politics or policy. And yes, WE KNOW that it's not that simple, that the Monarchy has its claws in the legislative process to grant themselves shady opt-outs to tax laws and such, we know this. We just need to be shown what a good republic looks like and then be able to actually make the change to the law without it being moulded in favour of whoever was in Government at the time. We are literally facing deterioration of our Human Rights. You think the Government wont go after the most fundamental parts of our constitution once they know it's on the chopping block? The Monarchy is the very last protection we have against a tyrannical government, as weird as that may sound. People who want the Government to remove that need to have a very convincing argument.