They don’t do anything? The Queen is in her mid 80’s and she still works every day for this country. I am sure she would like to retire but she doesn’t get that luxury. Whether you agree that we should have a monarchy or not I think it’s a bit ignorant to say they don’t do anything.
I actually feel that the British royal family (the immediate members) bring in a lot of money to this country in tourism especially. They bring far more money into this country than they cost us (I recently saw somewhere that they bring in 7 times more money than they cost us but I have forgotten where I saw that now so couldn’t tell you how credible it is). Also, the arguement of “they are a drain on taxpayers money” is a crock as they actually only costs us around 70p a year, that’s hardly a “drain”. Don’t forget the Queen pays tax herself.
I have more respect for the Queen than any Prime Ministers (who are voted into power by the general public) we have had in recent history and so I would be very reluctant to be lead by these guys alone.
I have had this arguement on many occassions with people that don’t agree with the Royal family and I can understand some of their reasons but I have weighed up the pros and cons and decided that I am definitely for keeping them.