You give up? Exactly; only his mother and driver know his name. He gets to shake hands with all the dignitaries, inspects guards of honour and I’m sure his tolerance of being sung to by out of tune children is almost limitless. That’s the sort of President I want for the UK.

He may have awful children whose relationships haven’t been up to much but that wouldn’t matter and hardly anyone would know or care. He isn’t head of the church – they have other chaps for that sort of thing and that’s why they don’t have unelected clerics making decisions on their laws.

His son may have a view on architecture, fringe medicine and produce awfully nice biscuits but if he has, no one takes much notice.

The Presidency may be expensive but after all you wouldn’t want your head of state living in decrepitude – so it’s an acceptable expense. And if like the Austrians, you end up with a dodgy president occasionally, you simply mutter something about him being only a sort of Nazi and get another one quick.

I hear it said that our Queen is admired the world over and there are a good number of countries that have our queen as their own head of state – at little or no expense to themselves. Perhaps that’s what we should do; adopt someone else’s queen pay a chap to be her representative and occasionally have her on a royal visit for a week or so every ten years and Bob’s you uncle. I’ve not heard of any country that doesn’t have our queen as a sort of legacy think, “Now that’s a good idea. We’ll have a hereditary head of state and we’ll invest them with regal powers that we (the politicos) will use.” OK, Russia’s a bit like that but their Mafia has a long way to go before they can match the sophistication of the City of London.

In Rome they used to give people more circuses when bread was getting low – I think we should keep those flags handy for the next circus.