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£370 seems fair
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1 million seems fair too
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All off of the back of the tax payer yet again, these freeloading scroungers have no shame, they must laugh at ordinary working class people going to work to pay for their upkeep.
They should be fazed out. The French had no qualms ridding their country of theirs, there's no lack of planes touching down in Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport full of tourists. They can keep the palace their but open it up as a museum. |
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I'm no royalist but it's nowt compared to our share of the chunk just given by the EU to the fascist Erdogan.
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worth every penny God bless you ma'am
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arise Sir Burton
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cheap as chips
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The Queen does a great job for the country- brings in millions of pounds every year.
So this seems fair enough. |
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when she dies,whos the money shot?
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Huge numbers of people from around the world visit the UK as they are fascinated with the Royal Family in general.
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Buckingham Palace pays for itself and more in tourism. £370m does seem excessive though!
I've never agreed with the concept of royalty, but I'm happy to ignore it for the sake of the money that I think it probably brings into the country. |
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2,500 radiators
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If there was no Royal Family, people would still come to see Buckingham Palace, she doesn't stand on the balcony every day waving to them.
How much does she owe know in Bedroom Tax? people with disabled children having to fight in court over losing 14 quid a week they can't afford to lose whilst she has a spare 800 rooms or so. |
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like loch ness
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The logic is more people come because of the global publicity that the Royal family generates worldwide, not because she waves from the balcony.
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The argument against the Royal Family is one of principle. There will be more money to go around the country including the poor with a Royal family so that argument for practical purposes doesn't stand up.
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It brings into focus the alleged spare room subsidy
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The Queen receives an annual grant worth 15% of the Estate’s profits. This year, she received £43 million, while the Treasury was paid £301.4 million.
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If the Pharoahs of Egypt hadn't built the pyramids, Egypt would be a lot poorer for it.
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Personally I'd rather have a couple of million and be able to do what I want without people talking about me and following me round, than have 200 million and have all the sh1t that goes with it, so I don't begrudge the individuals either. It's just I find the concept distasteful. In the same way that I don't dislike Muslim, but find the theology and belief systems behind it horrible. It doesn't stop people fawning over and idolising both but that is entirely up them.
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dead or alive, tourism is Britain would not be hit.
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£39.50 buck palace
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announced on the same day as Children in Need
who said irony was dead? |
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Facts looking forward to the day Buck Pally becomes the biggest mosque in town
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The establishment is just two fingers to the working class.
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Don't be silly saddo
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wait a while, the world is coming to an end(a new beginning), we can save some money.
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Kirstie Mary Allsopp @KirstieMAllsopp 11m
11 minutes ago I think we should just let Buck house slowly fall down, or perhaps burn down when the ageing electrics give up, maybe with the Queen in it?  |
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Tis over 10 years and excellent value for one of the most iconic buildings in the world.
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I totally agree with you, the Tories are scum. Yet incredibly the working class people keep voting for them Sad
Because labour didn't offer the referendum. The working class want out of the EU. |
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Scandi blowing a fuse here
 Don't ye know that the Crown Estates owned by the Queen bring in over £200m per year to the treasury. |
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why are we paying then?
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Actually we aint. The Crown Estates generate over £200m profit and the Queen retains a %age of it.
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A guillotine would be cheaper
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too french
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Could do without that pesky EU and their unelected beaurocrats. We need to get out let our own judges - oh no, scrap that - our own parliament - hang on, erm can we just have Nige and Boris making our decisions for us please. Anyhoo, we need to get out and stop the EU taking our money and distributing round the poorer areas; no let's take that £350M per week and we can re-fit Buckingham Palace and maybe build them a nice new yacht too. Now, who's for a nice GTSQ? If we've got any left I say we give it to Nissan.
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blowing a fuse
Kirsty Allsop wants to burn the palace down with her in it, I want her out not burned alive People always claims she brings in more than her what the entire upkeep of her family / trips / health costs but the figure is debatable, more to the point, the concept of a Royal Family in 2016 is extremely dated and not in keeping with modern thinking, they have served their time and purpose. |
