The British Citizen thinks not.
See our own views here. And from just some of the comments below we’re not alone, so why on earth don’t we do something about it?
Here are the thoughts from a wide range of people: writers, broadcasters, journalists, musicians, politicians, philosophers and others, taken from the current issue of the New Statesman:
Will Self, novelist
“Despite people’s general willingness to accept the monarchy uncritically – as a species of constitutional wallpaper, the alleged undercoat of our tolerant settlement – the fact remains that it lies at the very apex of a pyramid of hierarchy, one that is mostly comprised of people who have unearned wealth, undemocratic power, undeserved prestige – or all three. Anyone who accepts an honour from the British government, or an invitation to tea at Buck House; anyone who shows deference to the monarchy, or even subscribes to an institution with royal patrons, partakes of this mass delusion: that the only way a modern democracy can be governed is by profoundly anti-democratic means; that the only way to treat citizens is as subjects. In my view, the British people will only come of political age with the abolition of the monarchy.”
