BeatrixFan
Majesty , Royal Blogger, TRF Author
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BeatrixFan said the system has worked well in the past, which I think is true. I'm still not clear why things have changed to the point where all of a sudden the system won't work in the future, and I think in this particular case it has quite a bit to do with the fact that BeatrixFan
doesn't think much of William as a person.
And that's true. Given a choice between William and Kermit the Frog I'd become Miss Piggy tomorrow but that has nothing to do with this. William, Harry, Eugenie and Beatrice and Zara and Peter are all living the celebrity lifestyle. They can't be professional Royals as well, it just won't work. They've turned the Royal Family into the soap opera it was in the 80s and how anyone can imagine William falling out a club one day and sitting on a throne as our Lord and Master the next, is a gorgeous thing to look foreward to. It's the 21st century, the British people now deserve the chance to elect their Head of State. We're supposed to be a democracy that exports democracy to oppressed peoples but how can we do that when we still have institutions that restrict the will of the people. The Monarchy and the Lords go hand in hand. They're undemocratic, they're old-fashioned and they deny us our right to elect our representatives. That has to change.
I think it's idealistic in the extreme to look at some of these small Baltic states as good role models for a presidency since those countries and Britain seem to have very different values. In Britain education isn't valued all that highly and you aren't going to find philosophers and intellectuals in the presidency, you're going to find far more the calibre of person you find in the USA - rich people who know how to play the party politics game. I'd far prefer to keep the system we have at the moment than risk introducing something like the US system, largely because some people aren't impressed by William at his current stage of development.
We do have different values thats true but I'm not suggesting Britain become Little Lithuania. I'm just saying that those nations have recently had to make decisions concerning their national structure and the choices they've made and the institutions they've set up are democratic and modern. Why shouldn't Britain have the same rights as our European cousins?