Its system of government has grown over many years and has grown inelegantly. British people are not generally inclined to be serious about the nature of their society or to examine its weaknesses. Rather there is often a chauvinistic pride in country that is unrelated to its merits, and that denies it failings. Many British people, who have never lived in a society without princesses and lords, do not recognise it as the affront to democracy that it is. Republicanism is often seen as a radical threat, that is plotted by Leninists or eccentric Labourites.
Criticism of monarchy can provoke irrational and violent responses.
Few in Britain understand that the majority is not necessarily entitled to impose its will on a minority. That even if a majority want a monarchy, it is a breach of the civil rights of the rest to impose one on them. The Centre for Citizenship looks forward to a Britain in which the will of the people is supreme and in which the people are the source of the government's legitimacy. A Britain in which the people delegate their power to Members of Parliament but only for a limited period and for limited purposes. On this web site we draw attention to some of the evils and some of the absurdities of British life.