God Save the Queen!!

A "Republic"....go to South Africa, they have one of those.

I agree, republic is the only way to go. Ian #11 - The Queen of England is the largest private shareholder of BP, 2nd largest in Shell, (Queen Beatrix of NL is 1st largest in Shell and 2nd largest in BP), awesome huh!? You gotta love them royal's eh Ian? Graheme #14 - No govt under Crown or British law has ever balanced the books. Always in the red means more taxes, fees, levies, and surcharges, not much of a system really. NO MORE CROWN, NO MORE DEBT!

Seems many people here think that the American style of Republic, is the only form of Republic. Ireland has a similar system to New Zealand except they elect their head of state. Where us the head of state for many commonwealth nations does not express the interest, and in some cases completely contradict those interests. Further more the Monarchy does not provide any checks on parliament and the government. In Commonwealth countries the GG can be sacked on the whim of the Prime Minister, where as a President is more secure in his role, (unless they are that bad that the require impeachment) For a democratic nation I do see the irony of retaining an undemocratic institution such as the monarchy.

Constitutional Monarchy' is the most stable, resilient & long-term survivable means of providing Head of State - Thomas W. #20. The constitutional monarchy is not providing much stability in the not-so-United Kingdom at the moment nor has it for much of the Queen's reign. In the last 40 odd years more than 3,600 of her Majesty's subjects have been slaughtered in a vicious sectarian civil war at the heart of which is a monarchy based on anti-Catholic bigotry. It is ridiculous to say that national stability is due to the presence of very old lady living in a castle 18,000 km away. That is Santa Claus stuff. Political stability in New Zealand is due to the common sense of the people of New Zealand. Get a life Thomas W.

Are those anti-monarchy people on the dole and costing the taxpayer more money for representing nothing, doing nothing and being nothing?

Alex   #25   via mobile 09:23 pm Jun 24 2011

They've factored in income from the duchy of Cornwall as a negative but ignored the fact that the crown estate which was formerly the personal property of the queen and is worth around £6bn brought £210m directly into the treasury, so really we make a net profit of £10m according the republic's figures without any of the indirect benefits.

If they are as wealthy as reported why aren't they supporting themselves?

You may be right but with the 100 more so politicians we would have to introduce, just add up their salaries alone and we would be breaking even

Actually, to get rid of the royal family does not take away their property rights- to take land of a (then) individual by force would destabilise the country. They also technically 'rent' the many state buildings off the Royal family- at less that commercial rates. SO they want to stop the Queen promoting tourism and then take her family inheritance off her? If they can do that to her, what would they do to ordinary people?

God save the Queen indeed!

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