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@tmfkatubthumper

but without them at the top of the table who pays for the next jet set of celebrities, society here is not as fair as it could be but its not as unfair as it is in other places, you clearly despise anyone who gains cash or influence through being popular, yet fail to notice celebrities have always existed in every cultrure be it the witch doctor in a tribe or the oppressor in chief in a communist country they are all celebrities, every hero or villan is a celebrity every leader in every country is a celebrity, the more popular ones remain at or near the top those that slide down the totem either disappear into obscurity or finish with an iron overdose throughout history, the trick has always been to keep enough people on side to avoid the slide.

the royals are important as personifying the pinicle of that society holding it to a level of decorum and setting the standard of acceptability, those who fail to remember their duty end up dethroned (as is currently starting to happen in spain and happened in various other parts including france) if you remove the gold standard from society you end up like Russia or china (both of which toppled their royals and ended up in obscurity and isolation from the rest of the world because they couldn't conform with accepted wider rules)

you don't have to like the people at the top but understanding they fulfil several roles both obvious and not so obvious is key before determining if they should be displaced or not, Cromwell made a mistake when he rid the country of the monarch during the revolution, a mistake he only realised after more than a decade in charge and then his pride prevented him from correcting that mistake until he was himself deposed and the king brought back to the table (although he wasn't fit to rule and should have been killed much earlier in the whole process) the secret has always been ensuring the person at the top doesn't want the job, anyone elected to the top spot will be craving the power and that pretty much always means there not fit to rule...

before St Teflon B'liar removed their capacity to prevent it they acted as a handbreak for dangerous disruptive or destabilising legislation by simply refusing to sign it off, he stopped short of deposing the crown though because even the craven power hungry fool he was he knew his life expectancy would shorten considerably should he take that final step ...

as with anything no system is perfect but before new labour it was a lot fairer than it currently is, the people in power took the long term view rather than the short term stop gap measures and things were generally a lot fairer with equal chance for those at the bottom to rise or those at the top to fall, now the only way is up and the system has been broken and desperately needs fixing, the royals have been dragged down to common celebrity status in many respects and uncaring unelected dolts have been elevated to an almost even position by an increasingly poor poorly educated public, decades of refusing to insist on proper values in the class room and feeding increasing numbers with mindless drivel on the goggle box has had a nasty effect, coupled with tv dinners and convenience food pumped full of brain dulling chemicals its taken a terrible toll on society at large.....