spindrift Posted January 21, 2011 Share Posted January 21, 2011 Maybe worthwhile is the wrong word, citizen certainly is since technically we are all subjects. Do you have to be loyal to the royal family to be properly British? Seems daft to me, I couldn't care less about them and consider them out-dated, a bit embarrassing and slightly laughable. The Queen has done an amazing job and seen off twenty or so Prime Ministers (including Thatcher who she couldn't stand, which means she can't be all bad!) but really, this is the 21st century, should we really prostrate ourselves beneath people who's position in society is down to an accident of birth? Is it possible for a republican to be a... what's the word..."proper" British person? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andygardener Posted January 21, 2011 Share Posted January 21, 2011 Loyalty to the Crown is more about loyalty to the country, the monarch is head of state and thus represents the country. As you said we've been lucky to have a fantastic head of state in HM the Queen and while she's around debating republicanism is like debating when Liverpool will next win the Champions League, completely theoretical and fairly pointless. If we end up with a bad monarch, then who knows what may happen, but while we have a fine figurehead for the country repulicanism will have to bite it's tongue and wait it's turn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swan_Vesta Posted January 21, 2011 Share Posted January 21, 2011 Many, many years ago I swore an oath of allegience to the Crown which I still hold sacred today. Like it or not our monarch is the head of our parliament and by Christ, she will have my respect. I'm not advocating kowtowing to a royal motorcade but what I am saying is that HM Elizabeth II is a figurehead of an ideal which is slowly being eroded by shifty eyed, slippery sons of bitches such as every god damned government for the last 50 years. I hardly subscribe to the spirit of 'dulce et decorum est' but I do respect my monarch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaimani Posted January 21, 2011 Share Posted January 21, 2011 Many, many years ago I swore an oath of allegience to the Crown which I still hold sacred today. Like it or not our monarch is the head of our parliament and by Christ, she will have my respect. I'm not advocating kowtowing to a royal motorcade but what I am saying is that HM Elizabeth II is a figurehead of an ideal which is slowly being eroded by shifty eyed, slippery sons of bitches such as every god damned government for the last 50 years. I hardly subscribe to the spirit of 'dulce et decorum est' but I do respect my monarch. gotta love those politicians! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greybeard Posted January 21, 2011 Share Posted January 21, 2011 Many, many years ago I swore an oath of allegience to the Crown which I still hold sacred today. Like it or not our monarch is the head of our parliament and by Christ, she will have my respect. She'd have even more respect if she popped in there occasionally and scutched some of the idiots round the ear 'ole. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swan_Vesta Posted January 21, 2011 Share Posted January 21, 2011 She'd have even more respect if she popped in there occasionally and scutched some of the idiots round the ear 'ole. Hell, I'd buy her a bat, have it baptized by the pope and dipped in Jesus's tears ........... She can wring a pheasant's neck, she can swing a bat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moneybagsuk Posted January 21, 2011 Share Posted January 21, 2011 I'm as british as can be and a firm republican - save some cash and sort out our reputation for being modern and forward thinking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smack Jack Posted January 21, 2011 Share Posted January 21, 2011 God no! I am an extremely worthwhile citizen of this thing we call a civilised society and I am firmly anti-royalist. Repatriation to Prussia for the Sachsen-Coburg und Gotha family would be my ideal for these sponging scrotes. Lets see if again an opinionated but not unreasonable post is pulled by the mods as a third of my contributions are? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Squiggs Posted January 22, 2011 Share Posted January 22, 2011 My allegiance is to the working people of this country, whatever their parentage and ethnicity. If the interests of the working people of this country were best served by an act of treason against the crown, then so be it. Does that make me more or less patriotic? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JFKvsNixon Posted January 22, 2011 Share Posted January 22, 2011 I've always taken the Crown to be a representation of the country as a whole, rather than the individual who holds it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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