But the point of an if-ain't-bust attitude is that, if you try to fix it, you will finish up having expended a whole lot of money & effort & energy only to be no better off at the end than you were before. In what way, precisely, do all these inveighers think the country would be better off if we went thru all the hassle of abolishing the Royals and substituting an elected President Blair or Cameron or Corbyn or Who-the-hell-ever to open things and play those ceremonial roles which seem to be an essential part of the DNA of any sort of state or national entity? The Windsors & that lot aren't perfect, either personally or institutionally [who or what is, for crying out loud?], but they happen to be what we've got; so why not just live with it? What possible advantage, or satisfaction apart from a sort of symbolic yah-sux-boo, do any of these moaners think would emerge from a change to some sort of republic?

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