Thread by @andrew_lilico

It's interesting that I write abt how the constitutional monarchy shld hv intervened, either way, on Cooper-Letwin, & a zillion people tweet at me abt Brexit. This isn't abt Brexit, per se. It's abt our rotting constitution. Remainers shld care abt that as well as Leavers.

Here is me writing on why constitutional monarchy is an ideal system & the reforms to the constitutional monarchy required for it not to atrophy into an undesirable ritual monarchy, in 2002:bowgroup.org/sites/bowgroup…

"Forty years ago, every serious Conservative would have known the arguments for a largely hereditary second chamber. But these arguments were allowed to fall into such disuse, and the constitutional position of the hereditary peers
was allowed to become so decrepit,+

+ that when proposals finally came to remove the hereditary peers, even Conservatives did not know what the point of keeping them was supposed to be.+

+If we do not argue for the virtues of the Constitutional Monarchy now, collectively as a party we will forget what they are. And if we do not reform the Constitutional Monarchy ourselves, when reform comes - as it will - it will come at the hands of our
opponents."

"Let us be frank. The Constitutional Monarchy is almost a broken force. To be sure, there is little appetite for abolishing the Monarchy - most people still want there to be someone called “the Queen” and to have pleasant state occasions.+

+But this sentiment is, at most, a form of Royalism - a kind of fanclub for the Queen's family...If we are not to have a purely titular Monarchy, we must start proposing positive reform of the Constitutional Monarchy now, before it is too late" - But they didn't & it was too late