Indeed, I must say, I have always found the question of "What will we replace it with?" to be irrelevant...much like our monarch.

Do we want the queen of England to be our head of state, yes/no?

Ok, now that's sorted, if we have then decided that they shouldn't, how do we want to do this? We then take as long as is necessary to work out how we do this. Howard did a typical job of making it an urgent and there for frightening change. This is an important issue. It is not an urgent one, and not one that needs to be rushed into.

If enough people want the genetic lottery, we find the Tasmanian family that has been inbreeding longest, and set them up with the same powers as her maj...