Gawd Bless her.

No seriously...

The alternative is someone who WANTS to be the big cheese. Every Prime Minister since and including Churchill has had this someone to bounce things off each week, and considering it can get a bit lonely at the top, I am convinced her approach has helped in ways someone who campaigns to be a President could only dream of.

A bit like the Aussies who never become a Republic for that very reason, cynicism of whoever would want to replace her.

Chippy rants get a bit boring after a time, don't you think? History got her there and me here, and you down there, oik.... I don't apologise for my Dad getting pissed one night in, say, 1946, and I don't apologise for the Empire. Far easier than being a miserable sod. I only apologise for what I personally do. I don't expect any different from our institutions. She isn't the Monarch in any real sense, and we are a constitutional democracy, (although paradoxically without a constitution.) Royal assent of law is a ceremony not a fact.

You see, there are people who get drawn to tradition. Some enthusiasts of tradition get together in pubs and sing traditional songs, their sense of tradition being so strong. Folkies, I believe they are called....