• twinnie@feddit.uk
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    9 months ago

    What exactly do you hate about him? Is it his stance on climate change or the Prince Trust maybe? The Royal family are an important source of culture, tourism, and soft power when the UK’s overseas influence is waning. What good to you think will come of getting rid of them?

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      9 months ago

      The Royal family are an important source of culture, tourism, and soft power

      The Royal family isnt an important source of tourism.

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        9 months ago

        Palaces like Versailles and Sanssouci get millions of visitors every year without a group of racists and pedophiles around and actively in power to give it some greater meaning.

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      What good to you think will come of getting rid of them?

      We’d become a proper modern country where the person who represents the nation is chosen by the nation? We’d move on from a system where who’s up front simply depends on who their mum or dad were? We’d rid ourselves of a system trained with centuries of imperial exploitation, racism and subjugation? We’d open up new tourism opportunities, with the palaces and castles being available for anyone to visit, a la Versailles?

      And that’s just off the top of my head.

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      The UK truly is in shambles if their tourism industry and culture depend on a cabal of ghouls siphoning vast amounts of wealth from the people purely for show.

      Personally, I like to think the people of the UK have a lot more to them than their vestigial rulers.