Type of site:
business / academic / charity / gov’t / journalistic /political / religious / campaign / blog / forum / education
Evaluation of this source:
· fact 1 opinion
· objective 1 persuasive
· level of bias
· assumptions
· up-to-date?
· reliable?
There are quite a lot of different opinions in this source. This is an objective source because there are different opinions and views in this source. It is not biased but there are assumptions which I will consider in the main points. This source seems to be up-to –date because the copyright says that it covers the years 2000-2013. This source is reliable because there are different view from people all over the country which can be used in my dissertation.
Main points:
This is a source with different opinions and I think that the author did a similar type of resource with the same question as mine. Loads of people all over the country must have been answering this question before I try to find out whether the monarchy should exist or not. The main point here is that the author said that it seems like most of the people like democracy and only a little part of them don’t. Also, the author made assumptions as he said that most people insist on that monarchy should stay because people like it and the Royal family and the Queen.
As I said before, the majority of people want monarchy to exist in the UK bringing such arguments as that the monarchy represents stability, continuity and ethics. They also say that the Queen brings the entire nation together. One of the interviewed thinks that the whole nation would lose such a lot if they didn’t have the Queen and that the Queen has more historical knowledge than that the prime ministers do as she has seen it all before. “They do a pretty good job of representing us and are cheaper than some presidents. They take their job seriously and have the country's best interests at heart, which is more than can be said for some elected statesmen and women. … Having a hereditary head of state seems a bit archaic and undemocratic, but I guarantee that if any of them damaged our country or abuse their position in the future we would become a republic very swiftly. Because of this, we keep them in check, and they keep us in check.” says Eadwyn from Hampshire.
On the other hand, some people say that the existence of the royal family is just a waste of money and even time. All those invitations to lunches that most of people don’t want in the country at all have no need to be. They say that the royal family belong to elite that no one can afford and even if they do not need more than they have, they still take more, while most of other people all over the world just struggle to survive. People say that the monarchy is an absolutely undemocratic system, which favours people who are lucky enough to be born in a certain family and that they need more democratic system where all the citizens have spire to be the head of the state and not just one over-privileged family.
