I note the sneering contempt from the hard left for the will of the people.
The will of the people is not known on this matter - nobody has bothered to consult them to the extent to have an idea how they feel.
Figures for anti monarchists range from around 24% to 50% - depending who and where you ask - but either end of the scale, that's an awful lot of "hard left".
Even if these figures were reliable, which they are not, it doesn't take into consideration those who couldn't give a toss either way which probably accounts fort the majority.
Short of actually asking them, there is no way whatever of knowing what people think - people watch Royal Weddings changing ot the Guard, et al, the way they would watch The Rose of Tralee Festival or the Oscars - not because they support it, but because it's spectacle - something to look at.
How much they actually bring into the revenue is a bit of a con anyway, typified by one of the biggest claims of the Royal knob-holders - tourism.
There are no figures of how many visitors would come to Britain if Buckingham Palace wasn't there - I doubt if gawking through the railings at a nondescript building you will never see the inside of can't be high on anybody's bucket list.
Give us a break you cap-doffing pair of sycophants - Eastenders and Corrie have topped the ratings for as long as I can remember, but they're both shit.
Jim Carroll