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Thread #168430   Message #4132831
Posted By: Backwoodsman
18-Jan-22 - 04:44 PM
Thread Name: BS: Brexit & other UK political topics
Subject: RE: BS: Brexit & other UK political topics
SRS, I suspect that many (most?) Americans don’t understand that a significant minority of British people don’t share the American love-affair with our Royal family, and their family-wars are of little consequence to them. Unlike your president, the Queen is not involved in our political system, except as an advisor and confidante to the PM and rubber-stamper of Acts of Parliament.

Personally, even though I marginally prefer the Queen as a benevolent, non-political Head of State over the concept of a US-style President with political power, I’d be happy to see the rule of the Monarchy end with her death or abdication, to be replaced with a Presidency along the lines of the Irish model - a ceremonial position with no involvement in politics.

I certainly have little or no interest in the wider Royal Circus. Harry and Meghan need to lie in the bed they’ve made for themselves AFAIC and, like any other citizen, Andrew needs to face, and answer in court, the charges that have been made against him. Otherwise, they amount to little more than a convenient distraction from issues the government would prefer us not to know about.