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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
What exactly does she do other than wave at people?
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In the UK, and occasionally elsewhere, the Queen will have a quiet word with a Prime Minister and express her 'concern' about a divisive piece of legislation.
By all accounts Thatcher hated her as she pretty much told her to back the eff off some of her more contentious plans to privatise the NHS and the like.
The Queen represents the last vestige of noblese oblige, the idea that the rich have a responsibility to care for the poor, in some ways she's far more concerned for her subjects than the government, in others hopelessly cut off.
Its a weird system but anything that replaces it will be almost exactly as weird, just different, and would certainly cost more, as any replacement for an existing system costs more when the Feds do it.