at the school debating society a couple of weeks ago we had a debate on whether to keep the monarcy or get rid of them. i voted get rid of them cos prince charles is a twat and theyre all a waste of taxpayers money and not democratically elected etc and all my mates and the lower 6th voted get rid of them but one of the pro-monarchists in the upper 6th had cakes with him cos it was his birthday and he used them to bribe the upper 6th to vote to not get rid of them and there were more upper-6ths than lower-6ths so they won. but i reckon if it wasnt for that we wouldve won cos the argument against the monarchy is better than the argument for them. i think we should get rid of them or at least take away some of their rights like the right to avoid inheritance tax for example, or make them live more like ordinary people, or just use them for tourism and turn the palace into a theme park or something. one of my teachers reckons we should put them all on big brother and have a "big brother royals special" and watch them argue in a room together and vote 'em off etc.
what do u people think?
id also be interested to see what foreigners think of them - do any of u republics miss having your own royal family or r u happy to get rid of them?