Golly Gosh - 2014

Look all this kerfuffle about the idea of monarchy at last coming back to the island that practically invented the concept? We should not allow our own experience of the shadow side of a foreign monarchy so to dominate our minds that all we see is shadow even in our own case. Do we not have institutes of freedom, of redress, of recourse, of democratic leverage? And if so, why should we fear the beginnings of a call from the grass roots for a monarchy. Even an elected sovereign every 20 years would be better than all this rumble and tumble we call an SPQR today lads. So come on, let's give this one a try.