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This man should never be King - Time to introduce a LOTTERY SYSTEM

posted 4 years ago by FootOfDavros (8237)
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Seriously it's time for the current farcical non diverse system to end.

It's bad enough that we've had to put up with the current Queen hanging about like Ian Beale on EastEnders steadfastly refusing to accept his time is up.

Therefore I propose the following:-

An annual lottery contest with the winning ticket holder being elected King / Queen and being able to fill Prince / Princess positions from their own families, live in the existing Royal estates - Buckingham Palace included - and receive payment in line with the existing Sovereign Grant for an entire year.

£20 a ticket, UK passport holders only, one year stay. Would make an absolute fortune for the treasury and the media / gutter press would absolutely lap it up, digging up the dirt on the current incumbents, etc before getting to do it all again the following year...

This should be the future model for an inclusive, diverse Royal Family setup.

[–] CheekyMonkey (584) 4 years ago

The treasury doesn't need to raise monies. It can tax people or debase the currency via debt. Either way, doesn't need any such tricks.

It would be more honest to simply say that you want to abolish he royal family, rather than try to democratise it, or make it some anachronistic diversity project...

Then again, the NHS is the new state religion of the UK, so stranger things have happened...

Clap for them bigot!

[–] FootOfDavros (8237) 4 years ago

Aw, come on cheeky monkey...

There's nearly 70 million folks in the UK. Take away kids & the walking the streets at night confused old people and you've got probably still got 40 million people who'd buy a couple of tickets each. £20 a pop, that's nearly a billion quid. Per year!

That'd pay covid track and trace off in a little over three years! Surely everyone would be onboard with that.

Plus think of the cash a reality TV show following around whatever years Royals would rake in...

Who wouldn't want to see that?

[–] chilidoggg (14326) 4 years ago

meh. Better spent on dentists...

[–] TimMC (9143) 4 years ago

I think that all public offices should be lottery winners.

We can't get any worse.

[–] Heisenberg (6730) 4 years ago

It's such a coincidence dude, I totally agree on the fact that this shit is not gonna fly anymore after the old bag bites it. And your solution is very creative.
I can only dream of Prince Ralph winning it.

I posted today this here without even knowing of the existance of your post, which is only 11 days old. I guess it's true that great minds think alike ;-)
https://moviechat.org/nm0703070/Queen-Elizabeth-II/606e9a245136271c581b9802/She-should-end-this-monarchy-nonsense?reply=606ec78b5136271c581b98a8&animate=false

[–] MoviesSuck (964) 4 years ago

This may be the stupidest idea I’ve ever heard in my entire life, and I say that with no malice.

[–] FootOfDavros (8237) 4 years ago

I'm sorry to hear that's the case.

Times have changed dude. No one wants to see hereditary privilege in this age of diversity. I'm sorry that you can't dream big. I'm sorry you don't believe in miracles.

[–] MoviesSuck (964) 4 years ago

I’m not sorry at all. It sounds to me like you live in a fantasy world, one which I and the vast majority of society want no part of.

[–] FootOfDavros (8237) 4 years ago

No reason for you to be sorry - no one asked you to be.

And no, I don't live in any "fantasy world", I live in this world (one without hereditary heads of state for the "vast majority" of the world's population). Questioning the non fantasy world of the UK's monarchy system was pretty much the point of the OP...

[–] MoviesSuck (964) 4 years ago

Lol.

[–] sslssg (34317) 4 years ago

Would only work if everyone in the commonwealth was eligible. The queen is the head of state. Otherwise just dump the monarchy.

[–] FootOfDavros (8237) 4 years ago

Yeah, I'd go along with that.

People would just absolutely love if someone from Papua New Guinea or suchlike won and became King / Queen for a year. Of course the chances would be remote compared with tickets purchased within the motherland itself but still the chance to dream - anyone could attain the position.

[–] Zinger (2364) 4 years ago

For only a year would be a logistical nightmare.

Would need to be a decade minimum.

[–] bistritapcv (1846) 4 years ago

Very funny

[–] FootOfDavros (8237) 4 years ago

Well this is weird:-
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/may/16/charles-to-open-up-palaces-to-the-public-when-he-becomes-king-reports

Prince Charles is apparently all I'm favour of opening up Buckingham Palace to the public even when he's in residence. So it seems that he's partially onboard with the plan...