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As one of the 60%, its not about deity worship, but more about a sense of stability. Especially where the monarchy has effectively zero involvement in daily life. When looked at from a P&L basis the crown is pretty good value. Certainly compared to all the alternatives that have been tried.

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I'm not in the 60% but I don't care enough to want to rock the boat either - an unelected figurehead head of state has some benefits.

If I could snap my fingers and remove the royal family at no cost I would but otherwise there are bigger problems we need to address first.

Indeed. Replace the House of Lords with something proportionally elected, for example.

I think there's value in having an unelected second chamber, because the lords are freer to broach unpopular but important subjects. Nevertheless imo it would be much better to have them randomly chosen from society.

Replace the commons with PR (STV on constituencies c. 6 times the size), replace the lords with people who have been in the commons for 20 years. Ensures fresh blood in the commons and removes the need to pander to the short term elections in the lords.

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