🇬🇧 Should the UK abolish monarchy now? 🚫👑

[YL]

For me it depends what the proposed replacement is.  For some time I've thought that my preference would be something close to the Irish system: an elected but essentially ceremonial President with just about enough executive power to obstruct a rogue PM (I wonder who I might have in mind?) making dodgy use of their executive powers.

I'm definitely opposed to simply removing the monarchy and making the PM head of state: I think there needs to be some sort of mechanism to control the PM in some circumstances.  I'm also not keen on moving to an executive Presidency: I'm suspicious of putting too much power in one person's hands, think it can lead to excessively personality based politics (see the current state of the French Fifth Republic), and don't like the way it can reduce legislative elections to a secondary event.