Anti-monarchy group 'Republic' stages Jubilee protest on the banks of the Thames

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21. An interesting perspective on British republicanism

from Jack of Kent's Blog

Nonetheless, switching a “united kingdom” to a republic would be a complex and slow process, and it is one unlikely to be done by any government one can imagine.

The current generation of politicians cannot get round to reforming the house of lords.

Indeed, they cannot even modify a honours system ridden by “knights”, “dames” and the “British Empire”.

So republicanism will remain as a frame of mind, a sense that things could be better organized, rather than as a serious political programme.

And this taming of republicanism is not the least of the queen’s achievements, though one suspects it will not be one of her eldest son’s.