The Usefulness of the British Royal Family

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The Usefulness of the British Royal Family It is becoming more and more apparent that the Royal family is not

essential for the running of our country. They are useless figureheads

who don't even have two brain cells to knock together, spending

billions of pounds of the country's money and whose jobs could just as

easily be fulfilled by anybody with half an education! In a recent

survey, 100% of responses did not support the British royal family and

87. 5% of them were actually against having a royal family at all.

For a start, the hereditary principle is an abomination. Surely it is

not right that somebody should be appointed king of a country, simply

because of his parents. If Britain is supposed to be a fair and

democratic country, then why is it, that simply because somebody is

born into a particular family, they should be put into a position of

power and wealth? In fact the royal family is the last relic of an

unjust political system in which all power is passed on from father to

son, rather than through hard honest work. The country has already

seen some sense and got rid of hereditary peers, so why have we

retained our hereditary queen? If children grow up knowing that they

are set up for life, with the country paying for their every need,

then why should they strive to achieve? Being born into such a

position of wealth and fame clearly screws them up.

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