In recent weeks, there has been a great deal of outcry about the Royal family spending tax payers’ money on flights, parties, renovations and whatever.
This must not be confused with the MPs expense scandals. After all, while elected MPs should be responsible and accountable, the Royal family is simply there with no responsibility or accountability. And with such a mandate, what other money do you expect them to spend?
The real questions we must ask ourselves are:
1. how much we are willing to give them?
2. what is that we want in return to paying for their lavish lifestyle?
But really, what right to exist does the Royal family have at all? What has it contributed?
They are so insignificant that they don’t even deserve a revolution. All we need to do is cut their money supply and they are gone. Will anyone really miss them, or even notice if they are gone?
Maybe by getting rid of them England will break its obsession with the past, and start looking into the future. A future that – unless things change drastically – will lead it in the footstep of all other great past-empires. Turkey was the one preceding us.