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My team and I are doing a Worldwide Scavenger Hunt whilst raising money for these guys www.snehalaya.org


I live round the corner but at work so will miss the royal visit :(


If anyone is feeling really generous and fancies trying to get our logo photographed with a royal, it would help our cause immensely!


We're doing a charity event in Hyde Park on Sunday morning too for the few of you that don't have anything better to do on Mother's Day!


Look for us on Twitter #wearthefoxhat


Thanks!- K

less than 50% of the poulation voted this mob in that run the country and yet 64% of the population(Mori 2009), would, if asked, vote to keep the monarchy... you're in the minority Louisa!! I'm getting my bunting out now and painting my face with the red white and blue of my National Flag!

Nick1962 Wrote:

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> less than 50% of the poulation voted this mob in

> that run the country and yet 64% of the

> population(Mori 2009), would, if asked, vote to

> keep the monarchy... you're in the minority

> Louisa!! I'm getting my bunting out now and

> painting my face with the red white and blue of my

> National Flag!


Hmm clearly not very good at maths are you? 36.1% voted Tory and 23% voted Lib Dem at the last election. That adds upto 59.1% of the total number of votes cast in favour of the two parties who formed the

government. Of course it isn't ideal, but at least people got a say

in who was elected on their behalf. And most important of all, we can kick them out if they're doing a crap job. Our head of state, the monarch is unelected and we never have that right to go to the ballot box to choose a new one, we are therefore not a true democracy! I think monarchies of all description are parasites, and this is why so many states around the world have chosen to remove them and all that they stand for. It is an outdated institution that most who support it fail to come up with a legitimate argument to support it's democratic credentials. Jamaica wants rid, the Aussies will be next, but us lot in the UK seem determined to live in the past, no wonder Scotland wants out!


Louisa.

I saw them drive past whilst sipping my soda outside the Dog. Some fella in a van was just backing out into the road as they were trying to come past so the Lead rider was screaming at him to go back in. They passed nice and slowly because of that.

Louisa Wrote:

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> Nick1962 Wrote:

> --------------------------------------------------

> -----

> > less than 50% of the poulation voted this mob

> in

> > that run the country and yet 64% of the

> > population(Mori 2009), would, if asked, vote to

> > keep the monarchy...

>

> Hmm clearly not very good at maths are you? 36.1%

> voted Tory and 23% voted Lib Dem at the last

> election. That adds upto 59.1% of the total number

> of votes cast


Hmm clearly not very good at reading are you? ;-) Nick's referencing the electoral population of the country whereas you're referencing the number of votes cast. The reasons why voter turnout generally hovers between a paltry 60 and 70% is probably a topic for another thread.

> > -----

> >

> Hmm clearly not very good at reading are you? ;-)

> Nick's referencing the electoral population of the

> country whereas you're referencing the number of

> votes cast. The reasons why voter turnout

> generally hovers between a paltry 60 and 70% is

> probably a topic for another thread.


Well in that case what does that have to do with democracy? My argument is about people being democratically chosen by the people, if some people of voting age choose not to vote them surely that is their loss at not taking the opportunity to change things? My point is we cannot change the monarchy even if we wanted to! We can change our government. If he chooses not to explain himself or go off topic that isn't my problem it is his!


Louisa.

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