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Question: Should the UK elect a President as the head of state and become a Republic, or keep the Monarch as the head of state?
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« on: September 19, 2009, 08:51:08 AM »
Which one?

I'm in favour of a Republic, and therefore electing a President (preferably with a run-off system like in France).
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« Reply #1 on: September 19, 2009, 08:54:33 AM »
Republic anyday. I would also give us PR, more direct democracy and more devolution.
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« Reply #2 on: September 19, 2009, 09:40:38 AM »
Down with the Saxe-Coburg-Gotha family.
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« Reply #3 on: September 19, 2009, 10:25:28 AM »

Eh, and they tried hardly to keep their orgin secret Wink

Anyway, elect the President.
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« Reply #4 on: September 19, 2009, 03:24:24 PM »
Keep the monarchy in my opinion.

Those who want a President ought to say who they'd actually want to be said President.
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« Reply #5 on: September 19, 2009, 04:08:04 PM »
Quote from: Benn in 2010 on September 19, 2009, 03:24:24 PM
Keep the monarchy in my opinion.

Those who want a President ought to say who they'd actually want to be said President.

Tony Blair, haha. Oh how the Conservatives would cringe.
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« Reply #6 on: September 19, 2009, 04:40:33 PM »
You guys should be glad you have a nice, powerless monarchy. I wish we had one.
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« Reply #7 on: September 19, 2009, 04:57:50 PM »
Eh, I think it's kind of neat that they still have a monarchy. And they seem relatively harmless, even if they do theoretically have quite a bit of power.

Would be nice if the crown skipped Charles, though.
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« Reply #8 on: September 19, 2009, 05:30:53 PM »
The British Royal Family are a bunch of Nazis. Republic anyday.
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« Reply #9 on: September 19, 2009, 06:06:32 PM »
Advice from a freedom-lovin' American: Ditch the bitch.
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« Reply #10 on: September 19, 2009, 09:08:19 PM »
Republic, obviously.

The notion of a ruling class, no matter how powerless, is wrong.
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« Reply #11 on: September 19, 2009, 10:42:31 PM »
Couln't we have some sort of compromise? Move towards a more democratic Presidential system, but keep the Royal Family for tradition? loads of details to be worked out.
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« Reply #12 on: September 19, 2009, 11:39:39 PM »
« Edited: September 19, 2009, 11:48:17 PM by Lt. Governor PiT »
     I don't really care whether or not they get a democratically-elected head of state, but throwing the royalty under the bus would be wise.
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« Reply #13 on: September 20, 2009, 12:42:25 AM »
Quote from: NiK for the Pacific on September 19, 2009, 10:42:31 PM
Couln't we have some sort of compromise? Move towards a more democratic Presidential system, but keep the Royal Family for tradition? loads of details to be worked out.

Why? What good does a group of people who are paid by the public to do nothing serve?
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« Reply #14 on: September 20, 2009, 05:23:09 AM »
Quote from: Benn in 2010 on September 19, 2009, 03:24:24 PM
Keep the monarchy in my opinion.

Those who want a President ought to say who they'd actually want to be said President.

Me.
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« Reply #15 on: September 20, 2009, 06:55:14 AM »

Down with Monarchy worldwide.
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« Reply #16 on: September 20, 2009, 06:58:28 AM »
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« Reply #17 on: September 20, 2009, 08:20:43 AM »
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« Reply #18 on: September 20, 2009, 09:35:59 AM »

Except in Brazil. Long live the Orléans-Bragança!
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« Reply #19 on: September 20, 2009, 09:41:28 AM »
I've been a Republican since I was little, but I don't really like the title President. How about something more historical, more fitting, more British... like Lord Protector.
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« Reply #20 on: September 20, 2009, 09:47:26 AM »
Quote from: Comrade Sibboleth on September 20, 2009, 09:41:28 AM
I've been a Republican since I was little, but I don't really like the title President. How about something more historical, more fitting, more British... like Lord Protector.

Smacks of dictatorship. Oliver Cromwell became what he most detested.
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« Reply #21 on: September 20, 2009, 09:48:53 AM »

No more than President. Or King/Queen obviously.
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« Reply #22 on: September 20, 2009, 09:49:31 AM »

Did you think the Bragança-familiy was good? They were only a bunch of idiots.
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« Reply #23 on: September 20, 2009, 11:03:18 AM »
Quote from: Comrade Sibboleth on September 20, 2009, 09:41:28 AM
I've been a Republican since I was little, but I don't really like the title President. How about something more historical, more fitting, more British... like Lord Protector.

I don't see the problem with "President", personally. :/
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« Reply #24 on: September 20, 2009, 11:12:13 AM »
Quote from: Re-elect Obama on September 20, 2009, 11:03:18 AM
Quote from: Comrade Sibboleth on September 20, 2009, 09:41:28 AM
I've been a Republican since I was little, but I don't really like the title President. How about something more historical, more fitting, more British... like Lord Protector.

I don't see the problem with "President", personally. :/

It's just so generic, so dull. And British governmental institutions should be neither. Lord Protector, though, has style and a certain historic charm. Thinking along the same lines, we should be a Commonwealth, not a Republic. Why use a foreign word when there's a much nicer English one?
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