Well, I suppose I could ask a sort of variation of the NPF and ask you to define howit is dysfunctional! Intellectually , I can accept that there are probably some dry, colourless logical reasons why, but I still think the abandonment of the monarchy would take away something special, a historical part of the fabric of the indefinable specialness of the UK.
We know that the monarch stays in the post until death, unlike elected leaders who come and go and, generally speaking, leave only books and chapters in history, and, again, colourless. We have a non-politically-biased affiliation to the person and family of the monarchy which I do not believe we would have to some president who would be elected.
Er.....what 'specialness about the UK', Susan?
Its' history?
Not much there - only three centuries if you believe it's' own propaganda - and less than 90 years in truth, since Ireland gained her freedom.
A shortbread tin mionarch who is 'second; of nothing -except England and Wales.
A Parliament whic claims to be a thousand years old, and, in that claim, dismisses the parliaments of the nations it absorbed like a slug?
Daft pomp and ceremony, most of which was invented by a German prince consort married to a German queen of a UK, who spoke with a German accent till the day she snuffed it?
An opening of Westminster parliament which simply underlines the fact that the said institution ignored the Act of union signed by an alcoholc traitor (Anne)?
No, the system only works for those who are blind to the mess it portrays.