For recent poll data, see here:Xenophon wrote: ↑Fri Sep 09, 2022 2:15 pmThanks for that perspective, Chap.
This is a sentiment I've heard a few times already, do you have any good insight into how popular the idea is and if there is any solid movement on that front?Chap wrote: ↑Fri Sep 09, 2022 7:39 amThat is why, now the Queen is gone, someone like myself begins to think that we need to begin to contemplate the (doubtless long and rather bumpy) road that leads to an Irish-style elected and largely ceremonial head of state, but with clear power to ensure that a new (written) constitution is respected.
https://yougov.co.uk/topics/society/art ... on-stand-m
That links leads to detailed charts detailing the views of different parts of the population on related issues. It includes this summary:
The institution clearly has a while to go before a majority want to change anything.Six in 10 Britons (62%) think Britain should continue to have a monarchy in the future, with only 22% saying the country should move to having an elected head of state instead.
More than eight in 10 (84%) Conservative voters and 77% of Britons aged 65 and older say the monarchy should continue, while just 9% and 13% respectively say we should have an elected head of state instead. Conversely, Labour voters are 48% in favour of a monarchy and 37% in favour of a head of state, and 18 to 24-year-olds are even more split: 33% favour a monarchy and 31% a head of state.
Distinguish between:
(a) Who is the Head of the Commonwealth.
See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head_of_t ... Succession
This role is not hereditary:
(b) Who is the monarch of Australia and the other commonwealth countries that are 'realms', not republics.The position of Head of the Commonwealth is not hereditary and successors are chosen by the leaders of the Commonwealth [...] In 2018, following the 2018 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, Commonwealth leaders declared that Charles would be the next head of the Commonwealth.[35] The role remains non-hereditary.
The monarch of the United Kingdom is simultaneously the monarch of a number of Commonwealth countries known as 'realms', which currently comprise Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, The Bahamas, Belize, Canada, Grenada, Jamaica, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Solomon Islands, and Tuvalu. That role is hereditary - but any country that wants to stop being a realm and become a republic within the Commonwealth (or just plain leave the Commonwealth entirely) can choose freely so to do.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_realm