Whether
Or Not British Monarchy Should Be Abolished
Monarchy is a
system of government by a king or a queen.
Britain or United Kingdom is one country which until right now still using
Constitutional Monarchy. Its leaders are devive into two, head of government
and head of state. The head of state or Monarch right now is the Queen Elizabeth II. Even
if she is a queen but
her power is not like the queen in the old era, her power is ‘limited’. Second is the head of government or Prime Minister, alongside with cabinet they handle the
government matter. On legislature, British has Parliament which consist of Head of Lord and Head of Commons. The differences between them is
Head of Lord appointed, while Head of Common is chosen through election. All
political stuff are handled by Prime Minister and the Parliament, queen has no more power to interfere in government and political thing. From
this condition, some people propose that monarchy should be abolished then latter
replaced into republict.
Those
who support on British Monarchy abolition mostly are republicans. They believe
that monarchy only bring harm than good for United Kingdom. It would be better
for UK to abolish monarchy since it will improve its economy. If we see Spain’s
condition right now, it is really chaotic. Spaniards demand a referendum to
monarchy abolition because their irresponsible King abdicated when Spain
economy condition getting bad to worse. What support them more is the fact that
Spain royal family do corruption. The brave picture of Spain monarchy is
something that can be happen in another monarchy country, especially British. Queen spends for about ￡40 million in a year and this number does not equal with what the Queen has done
to the country. She only stand as an icon, smiling and
waving there and there. It is two different picture between life of monarch and
life of worker. In some side of British there still people who hardly get
something to eat, while Britain people pay taxes for the queen sake. Monarchy
only create social jealousy. Just because someone born as the first born of
royal family, he/she become the most important person, his/ her life will
prosperous and glamorous until he/she die without any hard work. The monarchy
system is ineffective because the leader is two. So beside country pay the
Queen, Britain still pay for its Prime Minister, Ministers and thousands of
House of lords and commons.
On the other side, Monarchy
also seen as a good government system. It had been Britain trademark from ages
ago. People are used to with this system, even if the role of monarch is not as
important as monarch in the past, but it has to be conserve. The ‘limitation’
for the monarch comes without no reason, it prevents a single leader which can
lead into dictactorship leader. By dividing the leader into two role, both
symbol (the queen) and government (parliament) can run well. The amouth number
of money waste for the queen is already covered million of tourists from all over the world who want to
visit places related to the monarchy attractions, the monarchy earns Britain £500million a year from
tourists visiting Royal attractions. Landmarks such as the Tower of London,
visited by 2.5 million people a year, net half a billion pounds in fees.
Buckingham Palace and
Windsor Castle also featured highly, drawing in nearly four million visitors.
For
me personally against the idea of abolishing monarchy. Until now, Britain is a
great country, their people is also comfortable already with monarchy system
instead they adore royal family. To change a system is not as easy as we change
our cloth, it is the country foundation. Moreover, it will be akward if United
Kingdom has no kingdom.
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