Yes:
- wasteful
- too expensive
- inefficient
- outdated
- boost of jobs if palaces, etc. could be opened for tourism
- royals = embarassment for GB
- royals don´t even earn international respect
No:
- monarchy embodies GB
- Queen = attraction for GB --> most popular draw all over the world
- a president can´t work as well as the queen
- queen = good for trade
If there wasn´t monarchy anymore, the president would have to ...
- control that the royal family wouldn´t get any power again
- change/create laws concerning the monarchy
- move into Buckingham Palace
- sell the royal family´s property
- choose a new prepresantative for the UK
- found new political institutions and a constitution
- establish a social reform
- found a republic
- find a new source of income for the state
- establish a new voting system
- find new state symbols
- establish a money reform / print new money
- rethink the relationship to Commonwealth Countries
- travel Europe
- create a new national anthem
