Awww. People have been getting all 'sixth form lefty' about the monarchy and I missed it.

[Berni]

Might I just point out that you can't call something an anachronism unless people actually believe it is. Since - by their continued and overwhelming support for the institution - the British people believe the monarchy to be relevant to their modern lives, it clearly isn't an anachronism.

What I think you mean, j, is that you don't like it and really wish everyone else would stop liking it, too. That's not quite the same.

[Snin]

of it are bloody dull tbh

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/ed/The-Queen-is-Dead-cover.png

[Classic Jorge]

a thing belonging or appropriate to a period other than that in which it exists, especially a thing that is conspicuously old-fashioned.
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It's fair to say the countries opting for constitutional monarchies as their system of government has been slightly on the wane in recent years/decades/centuries/aeons, no?

[Ashberto]

and anything to do with the preferences of ordinary people is so quick to invoke them when it suits.

[Berni]

appropriate to the time and place it exists - ie Britain in the 21st Century.

[Classic Jorge]

The UK is a country, and as such would have to be judged against other countries, if the UK was the only country on earth then it would not be an anachronism.

This sixth form lefty is wondering whether you passed your right wing GCSEs

[Berni]

consent or at least acquiescence of those it governs - other than by brutality. Thus, since the monarchy is not imposed by brutality, we must assume it exists by consent and that it is therefore believed to be relevant by those who give their consent - and thus cannot be an anachronism).

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

Certainly in my day we'd grown up by the time we'd finished 'O' levels.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[Berni]

which, to compare the UK and any other country in terms of the institutions it uses to governs itself is idiotic.

[Classic Jorge]

[7evens]

I defy anyone to bunk down on a beach designated/taken over by Germans for an afternoon :-(

[Ashberto]

I have no problem with a constitutional monarchy with popular support, as long as it shuts the f**k up about politics, but the PM should not be able to invoke royal powers to go to war without parliamentary consent.

[Classic Jorge]

...interests

[Berni]

[Peter]

Irrelevant. If i thought it mattered at all i would want them out.

[Chief Arrowhead]

A President breaking laws right and left just to do whatever suits. You can't call him on it or you're labelled a racist as the media protects him.

We now have celebrations on the White House lawn for deserters. To this President it's like skipping class to go smoke some 'choom'.

Once these imperialist precedents are set it's very hard to walk them back, if not impossible. He's the President that Nixon dreamed of being.

[Peter]

So we are just left with the uk and its silly monarchy, its ridiculous customs and a bunch of flag-waving oafs who, in any other conversation, you would despise.

[Peter]

Quite charming really. It isnt worth getting upset over the fact that they technically could.

[Classic Jorge]

http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2013/jan/15/ministers-exploite d-royal-veto-legislation (http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2013/jan/15/ministers-exploited-royal-veto-legislation)

[Peter]