Why do the British still have a monarchy?

Question

Have they been given a choice? Have they had the opportunity to vote? Do they need a Monarchy? This is not a criticism!

Answer 1

many years ago a civil war was fought and the monarchy was over thrown  by oliver cromwell ................... then parliament was given the power to govern the country ....... the monarchy was re instated at the will of the people but more as a grace and favour role no real power  but it works here

a very quick resume of what happened  look to oliver cromwell the battles between cavaliers and round-heads and maybe look to the start of colonisation of the USA by the pilgrim fathers ...all about the same time  

Answer 2

Because they have looked at America and realized that even a very bad monarch is much better than even the best President!!

And lets face it no country in the world would want someone like George Bush with all the incredible damage he has done to drag America down!!

Answer 3

because they feel like it, it's tradition, and a symbolic figure

Answer 4

History and tradition, and further, in the modern usage, the Crown (personified in the Queen) is the non-political symbol of national unity.

Answer 5

The Queen or KIng of England isn't a ruling figure anymore. The position is a symbolic and has no real power anymore. Just a figurehead at parliament with no say.

Answer 6

If we didn't have the monarch, we would have to have an elcted head of state.  This would not be any cheaper, and in fact many countries pay more for their presidents than we do for our Queen (the Italian president costs almost twice as much).

No, we haven't been offered a chance to vote on this issue, the British democratic system is limited to electing MPs.  Once they are elected, they can do as they like, and are not answerable to the electorate.  They have foisted the decimal system, the metric system, and the EU on us without us being asked our opinion on any of these things.

However, I am fairly confident that if there was a referendum about the British monarchy, the British people would have sense enough to vote to keep them, rather than saddling us with some boring nonentity of a President.

Answer 7

because we do, & its our country our monarchy & we dont answer to any other country, we pay £35.3million for them the queen gives the people of GB £147.7million more than 4 times the civil list,

so just in monetery terms we are better off having a monarchy,

also if we got rid the MP,s would just pay them selfs more, most poloticians are not init for the good of the people they are in it for what they can get.

Answer 8

The British experiemented with a Republic. It didn't work.

Constitutional Monarchy is the worst possible system of government, except any of the available alternatives (e.g. the current example set by the former colonies, of a hybrid hereditary-Presidential system).

This is a criticism.

Answer 9

I don't think there's ever been a vote on it, and I'm sure that not everyone is a fan of the Monarchy, but the system works for them and there are a lot of traditions associate with it that are part of their society and culture now.  So I guess there's just no big reason to change it.