Official Report: Support For British Monarchy At “Historic Low”
The latest British Social Attitudes survey shows that support for the parasitic affront to democracy known as the monarchy is at an “historic low”.
The number of Britons who believe that monarchy is “very” or “quite” important has fallen to 51% from 86% in 1983 when the question were first asked.
In that same period the percentage who think monarchy “not very” or “not at all” important has gone up from10% to 31% today, nearly a third of the population.
Support in the UK as a whole for the abolition of the monarchy has reached 15%, up from 3% in 1983.
The news is even better in Scotland and Wales. In those jurisdictions majorities favour an elected head of state, 64% in Wales and 59% in Scotland. This is particularly significant as monarchists often justify monarchy with the claim that it unifies the United Kingdom.
Also encouraging is the report that 59% of those aged 16 to 34 want the feudal institution abolished. However, 76% of people aged 55 or older are in favour of keeping the monarchy.
Not surprisingly 82% of Conservative supporters and 77% of Reform followers want to keep the undemocratic institution. But 57% of Liberal Democrat supporters are also hostile to a democratic head of state.
Even among Labour supporters 49% are for monarchy, while 48% would like the people to be able to choose who should represent the nation as head of state. Only Green party supporters are shown to have a majority of true democrats with 70% in favour of a republic.
The authors of the report make the point that the level of support for monarchy goes up at times as well as down. It notes that monarchist sentiment went up only briefly following the intense propaganda effort following the death of former hereditary head of state Elizabeth Windsor.
The research director of the National Centre for Social Research commenting on the new figures said of the monarchy that “More people than ever” were “questioning its future”.