""Come along now Don with yer scaremongering. You pick out the one place where such stupidity happens and you threaten us with it! Anyway, man, where's yer principles!""

Scaremongering is it?

1. Take a look at the security entourage that accompanies foreign Presidents, and work out the cost, then look at a street walkabout by any of our Royals with their two or three security men and a couple of attendants.

2. Count the cars in a cavalcade when a president travels, and compare with our queen in one limo with four police motorcycle outriders.

3. Presidents are politicians, and they of course wouldn't spend a fortune on self aggrandisement, would they......?

4. My principles are alive and well, thank you, and I still think an apolitical head of state has many and distinct advantages.

After all Steve, who are the first to scream about our jovial Wingnut expressing opinions about anything other than the weather?......You lot, that's who!

Now, getting down to the nitty gritty, who do you fancy for the first president of the new United Republic?

Blair?
Brown?
Milliband?
Cameron?
Haig?
Clegg?
Griffen?
Farage?

Those are the most likely candidates trying to supplant the Queen.

NO THANK YOU!

Don T.