Best of British ... and Swiss?

Don Parkes just about sums it all up (Peninsula News, 2 April 2012) when he questions why the British constitutional monarchy is the best system of government.

Republics are shown over and over to be corrupt, weak, divisive, autocratic and totalitarian.

What underlies the republican push is envy, jealousy and hostility of the basic decency, liberty and compassion of the best of British.

The fathers of Federation borrowed from the US, and the Swiss as well.

The Swiss citizen-initiated referendum would be the icing on our cake.

Perhaps one day.

Letter, 5 Apr 2012

Keith Whitfield, Woy Woy