@Roussette
Is that how you view how the NT run places.? Why would it lose its historical merit if they didn't live there?
It wouldn't
I don't
We won't have a Putin because as I say we are a democracy
We'd perhaps LIKE to be a democracy, true.
At the moment we're only a democracy in name, due to: not having a clear public understanding of what the RF and our institutions actually do and who they actually serve (Privy Council, HoL etc); having a messy, uncodified constitution that creates untold confusion; having since 1945 placed blind faith in the idea of deference to king/queen and country without stopping to question why other European monarchies were crashing down left right and centre, believing Britain to be somehow stable, superior and special when in fact it's corrupt AF and built on horrendous inequalities that are now apparent in PA's vile behaviour; not actually being a United kingdom at all, but a very divided one (Wales, Scotland and the disgrace of what England did to Ireland), thus weakened by splits and not strong enough to force a revolution or referendum as has happened in other countries; abdicating our personal responsibility to ELECT decent leaders instead of forcing the queen to abdicate instead. Basically we're medieval sheep that have only recently learned how to bleat, pathetically, at the unfairness and corruption of the institutions we still don't understand properly.
Our political system is structurally unsound and mired in filth and we don't like to admit that. We like to pretend it isn't. Structural weakness is tradition, so it's fine. Instead of protesting or burning tyres or guillotining or creating new, workable, affordable leadership systems (see Rep. of Ireland) we like to recycle official propaganda and comforting assumptions and then spout them at each other, instead of asking the tough questions like why the should the royals be paid millions and have 19 massive residences for doing absolutely nothing except proclaiming their own glory and entitlement, and the even tougher question as to why we let them do it.
But they should watch out, because if you look at other European monarchies, most recently Spain, the institution's fortunes and future depend heavily on public opinion. After the Juan Carlos scandal, the popularity of the Spanish monarchy fell to 50 percent and started to climb again only when the new guy proved to be more likeable and not (apparently) take kickbacks. Contrast that with Denmark and Norway with no major royal scandals and where the popularity of the monarchy is about 80 percent. And contrast again with Italy & France etc where people got so fucked off with the whole royalty scam that they destroyed it.
PA's behaviour and Epstein links go beyond financial corruption and "being rich" into the realms of depravity and his mother defends and protects him. She'd be ripped to shreds if she posted about it in AIBU - yet there's a 70 percent approval rating for the RF? Bunch of loons we are.