Which is no doubt why a recent poll here found 80% of a sample of our citizens in favour of our system. The self-proclaimed 'democrats' who are making such a noise about all our disadvantages should bring their 'democratic' faculties to bear on that result.

Well, you see, in our version of democracy, the, we don't generally do things by sampling the population on individual questions, apart, of course, from general elections. We elect the government we think we can trust most to be much better informed on issues that we can usually be individually and act accordingly, even if those actions go against the grain. If you want to cherry-pick issues that appear to have popular support, perhaps you'd care to reflect on whether you would like to live in a country in which everyone out of work would be regarded as a benefits scrounger and left to rot, in which we would still have hanging (preferably public), not to speak of flogging and compulsory conscription, and from which the blackies were all repatriated to Bongo-bongo Land. I suggest you go and ask some of your 80% how much they actually know about the royal family: what they cost us all, how rich they are, how they came to be where they are and how they gain access to all the best facilities in the nation by dint of nothing more than accident of birth. I'd be amazed if more than one out of your 80 knew a tenth of it. You are basically lionising mob mentality.