The Monarchy should be abolished, its all the governments fault, the state of the country, immigrants and the weather.
No wonder the Oz contingent call us the winging poms.
Last time I checked the Queen was still the head of government in the UK so swearing allegiance to queen and country was about the same as swearing allegiance to the government and the flag.
We lack a sense of national pride in this country and any steps to get national pride improved are a good thing.
Any one wishing to abolish the Monarchy obviously has no concept of the massive income generated by their existence. The tourists don't come hear for the weather they come for the history. They envy our Monarchy.
The Queen only has to do a state visit and political and economic barriers fall and the UK benefits.
We are a pathetically small little island with a disproportionate status in the world and this is in part due to our Monarchy.
They have to stay if only for the cold hard financial benefit they bring to us and I for one have no problem swearing allegiance to my country and its ruling government. Traveling the world has shown me just how lucky we are
Except for the weather of course
Immigrants now have to do a citizenship exam before they are allowed
PR. This will mean soon the immigrants will know more about the construction of government in this country than the indigenous population.
In my own business as in most businesses these days I am competing with cheep labor from abroad. All the Brits moan about immigrants but they still want cheep building works done it seems, and are quite happy when a bunch of immigrants turn up to do it.
ATB
Mark