The Crown vs. The Future (The Golden Jubilee)

Member Name: vixenvic

Product:	The Golden Jubilee
Date:	20/05/02 (23 review reads)
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Advantages: The Americans like them

Disadvantages: Archaic, holding the nation back, from a time that no longer exists

Members of the jury, I put it to you that Britain is being held back by the monarchy. I purport that the monarchy is one of the strongest contributing factors to a collectively nostalgic feeling amongst the British people. The monarchy is archaic, and so is Britain.

THE CASE FOR THE CROWN

The Queen is our sovereign, our head of state, we look up to her, we look up to the Royal Family with great respect and admiration. Their presence gives us great comfort and strength in times of need. They are ambassadors for Britain, they are symbols of history, they are part of our heritage. Oh, and of course, the Americans just love them!

THE CASE FOR THE FUTURE

The Queen and her family are symbols of everything archaic and out-dated, everything we should be growing away from as a society.

The Royal Family is born into privelege, they are supported by the unpriveleged masses. What has given them this right? They have this right because their ancestors fought battles for power. Their role is redundant, the monarch has little power and we live in a democratic society. This method of achieving power doesn't figure in a democartic society.

How can young people especially, find strength and comfort in a family that they cannot relate to. They will find more relevance in The Simpsons.

Britain is not great anymore. There is such a disillusion that we have a decent quality of life here in Britain, but we are living in the dark ages. All we ever do is complain about new things, we don't understand new technology, we don't like 'modern art', we don't want to see new shaped buildings, we don't want to join together and be part of Eurpoe: we simply don't want this nation to move forward.

This nation is so closed-minded, and it will take a hell of a lot more than getting rid of the monarchy to improve that. We have a deep-seated nationalism that is negative and unproductive. We waste time
whinging about the great triumphs of the past, about winning the war, about the coal miners, ship yards, etc etc, and we won't consider a new way of doing things. We don't provide enough opportunities to learn new skills. We are not educated to be forward thinking.

There is nothing in Britain for those who want a future. A real future. It is only a matter of time before Britain gets left behind the rest of the world. We won't integrate with a bigger power and we don't have the guts to make changes on our own.

The day the monarchy is abolished could mark the beginning of a letting-go of the past, but it will take a much deeper change of thought for Britain to embrace the future.

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