"second time I got facetious crap answers."

Er, wasn't my answer quite to the point rather being facetious or crap? Perhaps if you'd phrased the question better you'd get the answers you were after.


"If we go the presidential route, then whether they are a politician or a statesman, they still need to be covered by security services. They will still think, like the present Queen, that everywhere they visit smells of fresh paint."

True, but we are going to need a head of state when the monarch is no longer so security and fresh paint will always be the order of the day for someone. I would suggest an apolitical figure (to avoid the Blairs of this world), a secular figure (to stop the inevitable strife a religious figure would bring to the role), and someone not in the pay of any private enterprise at all.