IT’S extraordinary to contemplate that the British taxpayer doles out millions to sustain a Royal Family that is neither accountable or especially popular.

The sad truth is, the Windsors have been imposing their de facto dictatorship masquerading as a democracy on Britain now for over a century.

In that time we have slumped from being one of the wealthiest, most socially cohesive nations on earth to one of the poorest crimeridden cesspools in the developed world. And that, to me, is just cause for the Queen et al to be had up for treason.

I hope Britain gets the presidential democracy it deserves, and the fate of the nation is taken out of the hands of a hereditary, unelected elite.

Aled Jones, Bridlington.