The Monarchy.

There is a minority in this country (Britain) who are republicans. That's not like being a Republican in Ireland, in the 26 or even the 6 counties. And they are a small minority.

When I think of the royal family – the monarchy in general, which a lot of other countries would actually like to have - I think of the movie The Truman Show. A really good film and strongly recommended. A child is put into a type of reality show at birth and moves around in a village of professional actors who, unbeknown to him, are hired; they interact with him as if it's a normal life and, every now and then, mention commercial products as the show has been product placed.

In other words, as opposed to advertising, commercial products are all over the set.

I am told, when I first started and worked on (in) Z Cars, that a certain actor, every time he sat at his desk, would take from his pocket a packet of pipe tobacco and place it clearly in shot. For this he received money from the tobacco company whom he had contacted beforehand.

This was not allowed, of course, so he was doing it unofficially.

In those days (doze daze), as an actor, we had to fill out forms to say which commercials we were featured in, and those commercials would be prevented from being shown within a certain time from the broadcast going out; I think they were blocked throughout the whole evening.

It was also against the law, the rules, or whatever for any company to sponsor a show. We would listen to Radio Luxembourg and hear phrases like this show is brought to you by whoever the sponsor was, so it was not unheard of by us and we knew it happened in America all the time, with TV hosts actually turning to the camera to tell you what delicious stuffing to buy.

On Coronation Street (A British soap) a fictional brewery company was invented just for the show and is still used on it to this day.

Apart from the small minority, I mentioned before, who would prefer Britain to be a republic I suspect a really smaller minority would agree with the so called republicans; a certain family who are born in to it.

That small minority are, of course, the Royal Family; they are captured at birth, brainwashed and forced into a life of servitude. They have known no other life, they are surrounded by security men, minders, Ladys in Waiting (I presume that's how it's spelt as opposed to the plural ladies as they are Lady this and Lady that) and there is no escape.

I hear you saying, well they can always pack it in but if you think that you must look at the word back there brainwashed. They would never think of it. They have a reason to be there, after their life training and that is to stop the commoner running the place and, apart from a few administrations, the commoner has made a balls up of it; hasn't he; or more to the point she?

One government starts the National Health Service, the next adjusts it. The next thinks of a better way to run it, the next adjusts that. One government decided that it would be better to bring agency cleaners to save the NHS the cost of their National Insurance and Benefits and that's it – it's in the state it's in now.

So I am all for the royal family here in the UK as I look at America and see who is supposed to be in charge at the moment.

And a lot of people think he is doing a good job.

Well they say that as they think he is improving the economy well he isn't. This is the same kind of economic upwards swing that Barack Obama started so thank your lucky stars that he doesn't really have the nuclear codes either; I think he carries around a football (or the British PM does) which starts a process to launch a nuclear weapon.

Because of this, and mainly because there is a salesman, sleaze bag, tax dodger in The White House, there are budding businesses selling survival gear in places like the wilds of Colorado where people (above) are stocking up in their Nissen Huts and tunnels with loads of tinned food, plenty of ammunition and packs of wolves which they throw raw meat to every day.

Having a monarchy means that people like Theresa May, the current Prime Minister of the UK, cannot go to America on a state visit because she isn't head of state; she is head of the government; the Queen is the head of state. When she dies, certain people will have a go at Charles as soon as he is declared king, before the coronation. It will start the same as anything else is started: rumours, innuendo; religious leaders saying he shouldn't be head of the church as he is a heathen – they may have a point there so why not eliminate that job from the monarch. It is a country of heathens in any case.

If it was a Republic, President Blair would still be president now; following Presidents Major and Thatcher.

Depending on which way you swing that can be good or bad.