Quote Originally Posted by Romanis View Post
Ok substitute whining with disagreeing then.

Where has the Queen failed that warrants a change or removal? No, she's not a tourist attraction. She has an important Constitutional role and she has performed it admirably.
Of course there's some glamour, pageantry, pomp, tradition etc that goes with it, and this is also performed admirably, but the key issue is the role as Head of State.

What compelling need is there to change something that has worked hundreds of years (as a constitutional monarchy)?
But it’s not a ‘key issue’ Rom. By your own earlier admission the debatable occasions when she has had to become remotely meaningfully involved were in 1957,1963 and 1974.

I repeat, she has done nothing wrong and has probably done a great many things ‘admirably’, the question though is...do we want to live in a meritocracy or be subject to an aristocracy where individuals achieve positions within the establishment via accident of birth and family affiliation? I appreciate our current crop of politicians and leading civil servants seem a particularly poor advert for meritocratic achievement but surely in 2017 it is time to favour ‘leadership’ achieved via meritocracy rather than aristocratic accident.