Barbados plans to replace Queen with ceremonial president

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Natural development.

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Is it actually that easy for Barbados to overthrow the Queen?
Or may they reckon that she will send her troops to her small island?

The idea of Britian invading Barbados to save the monarchy is pretty hilarious, but absurd.

Any Commonwealth country can ditch the Queen at will.

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Back to the past..

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It is sort of weird that ALL counties still exist on having a separate head of state. They're all just doing it out of habit too.

At some point, some country is just going to be, you know what? Let's just have a Prime Minister as head of state and government. I wonder who will be the first.

Bibi tried half assedly to do it in Israel.

USA have de facto unified the two positions. The result are that half the country hate the HoS. By splitting the two position from each other you get a PM who can focus on politics, while the HoS can focus on reaching out to the entire population.

Hypothetically, but most of the time the head of state doesn't do anything at all.

You underestimate the value of representation and acting as a symbol of national unity.

One big advantage is that you can choose a non-politician as HoS.

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Correct me if I'm wrong but I assume NZ and the Aussies will become republican once Liz takes her last breathe

I wouldn't bet on it. Support for a Republic is at a record low in Oz and - more importantly - young people are more monarchist than the middle aged.

http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/republican-cause-takes-heavy-knock-in-poll-20140201-31u1a.html

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Correct me if I'm wrong but I assume NZ and the Aussies will become republican once Liz takes her last breathe

That would probably depend on how Charlie does as King. It's true (as has been pointed out already) that patterns of support for Republicanism in Australia are partially generational in character and that specifically the Republican cause is linked with the generations that were young in the 1960s and 1970s (SHAME FRASER SHAME etc), but that doesn't mean that a turnaround is impossible, particularly with a new and less PR friendly monarch. Fundamentally the issue is not an important one, which means that minor changes can theoretically cause large shifts.

The 65+ are the most monarchist in that 2014 poll and people being young in the 60s (= born 1935-1950) are bound to be a majority of those.