SNP "reactionary conservative", GG? I think you are confusing them with some other party. (Such as the one in power in London.)
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I really am puzzled why people get all excited about the Royal Family. In some ways it doesn't make much difference whether they loathe it or worship it, there's a shared feeling that it desperately matters. But it doesn't. No more than other aspects of inequality, and in some ways less.

The idea which I have heard expressed, that the existence of the Royal family is a keystone for preservation of inequality and snobbery and all that, and that without them those things would collapse just seems laughable to me, looking around at other countries which don't have this odd institution in place.