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Because remnants of the "middle age" are not too easy to find these days and when you have a good one you tend to hold on to it. I'm British and I don't want to
by harel 3y ago
Because remnants of the "middle age" are not too easy to find these days and when you have a good one you tend to hold on to it. I'm British and I don't want to see the monarchy disappear.
- bhickey 3y agoGo for a walk in the City and you can see nearly two thousand years of British history. * London Wall * The Tower of London (to the east) * St. Paul's * Bunhill Fields (to the north) * The Bank of London * The Gherkin * The Guildhall * The Strand and Temple (to the west) The monarchy should disappear because keeping some posh people in gilded cages by virtue of birth is fundamentally incompatible with liberal democracy.
- harel 3y agoIt's not the same thing. Objects exists from every period. Living relics do not. I'm British, but I was not born in the UK. There is some charm to the entire thing of a long lasting tradition along side modernity. I don't see it as incompatible at all. I know enough republicans to know it's not a point that has a point of arguing about.
- throwaway_fjmr 3y agoWhat’s good about the royals?
- lnxg33k1 3y agoI guess there is something good about them for the BBC, it has a endless stream of nonsense to publish
- Affric 3y agoThe British monarchy is a live institution and should be viewed as such. Republicans using the fact it’s been around for over a thousand years (with a few hiccoughs) are not making the argument they think they are making.