Bend it like Repka wrote: ↑Wed Sep 14, 2022 4:26 pm
You can't have a president, our country is led by a Prime Minister and that is how we run things in our democracy.
We are not set up like The US or France where the President has political control.
That makes no sense to me BILR. You've written that we can't because that's not what we have. But if you change the constitution then..the constitution changes and you can have one. The architecture of the state changes across time otherwise we'd all be stuck in feudal systems. You
can re-write the rule book.
Which leads back to the original important question...
Bend it like Repka wrote: ↑Wed Sep 14, 2022 4:26 pm
As a genuine question, what would Republicans want?
A system of government that our political culture is not suited to, I would argue. I am only a supporter of a constitutional monarchy because we would make a complete pigs breakfast of a Presidential system. I like that our leaders emerge out of the party system. It's a half-decent check on those that filter through to the top.
The problem is at the moment, the party system is f*cked and has been for a while. Really, really poor representation of a broad array of interests in parliament which is an extension of a ridiculous voting system. We have the nation's political leader emerging out of a two-party system when the two-parties have lost their broad appeal. So that 'check' on what cream rises to the top is no longer a decent check on who should be our nation's political leader, especially if the two parties start to polarise (Corbyn vs Johnson was a low point for political choice if you ask me).
So, I would remain loyal to a parliamentary system so long as they sort out that bloody electoral system. Our political culture is not one for putting individuals on a pedestal and raising political leaders to near god like status as they do in Presidential systems. That's just not cricket. But then at the same time we have to recognise that we no longer have a political culture based around two party's with widespread support. I think we are in desperate need of PR and a move away from adversarial politics.
As for the Monarchy in all of this - scaled down, less bloated, and hopefully continuing the political neutrality and stoicism shown by Queen Elizabeth II.