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buck palace £370 refit poll
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Tis only one five hundredth of the payment to the EU over the 10 years of the refit.
Money well spent in more ways than one. A Saves an historic building B Gets right up the collective noses of the moaning left  |
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lets crowdfund a Russian Imperial Romanov family repeat
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Did you read that last post from Scandi Harry?
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Kate: There's akabula, he thinks we care about the poor who pay for us, point and laugh at him, he'll never know
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A bunch of parasites.
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mac gets to the point
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Love it when you lot seethe.
GSTQ |
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No issue with this at all - do a great job, and improves Britains standing in the world. Our Queen must be one of the most famous people in the world, and is respected everywhere. The benefits of a Royal family cannot be reduced to a monetary figure
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ripping ach other apart on 5-live now
 pro guy opened up with shes only 300 on rich list  |
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If we got rid of the royal family......, what would our national anthem be?
Maybe :- ''God save Theresa May, Long live Theresa May.....'' |
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Awful lot of wood chip wall paper / b & q paint and few brushes.....where do I apply please
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should just get a few Poles in; would have it done at half the price and in half the time.
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the national anthem is crap imo.
The benefits of a Royal family cannot be reduced to a monetary figure lol |
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Give us £185m up front for materials and I can have the lads 'ere on Monday
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The upside of all this, is that the money goes to all the workers, and businesses involved.
Unfortunately, and my being cynical, a fair few million will be diverted into the pockets of those in charge! |
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Young people are brainwashed into believing that some other people are better than them, because they just are. They should bow before them, not question their betters and just stfu. It's insane. What does that cost society? Get them to fck.
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The Queen is immortal, thank goodness.
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akabula 18 Nov 16 19:18
Actually we aint. The Crown Estates generate over £200m profit and the Queen retains a %age of it. Actually we are. It's public money. From the Government's Treasury. You know, same Tory pot that cannot afford to build Council houses. |
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Don't the left use the net fiscal positive argument to support immigration? ( although without foreign millionaires, immigrants would be net takers)
Whereas the Royal Family are most certainly net fiscal positives. |
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That argument only works if by abolishing the royal family we'd also bulldoze Buck Pal, Windsor Castle etc etc.
I'm pretty sure people still bother to visit Versailles, Alhambra and even the likes of the Forbidden City and various old buildings of the Romans or the Medicis despite those families/dynasties no longer being around. |
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is the Queen skint ? i am ?
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George III had huge debts, so offered Parliament a deal. In exchange for a fixed salary, the land being maintained by the tax payer and the debts being wiped, Parliament would get the rent from the lands.
Today, that salary is around £40m a year, which sounds like a lot, until you realise the rent is £200m a year, which means Parliament pays in £1 and gets £5 back. Seems like a good investment to me. Now, this repairing business has to be done, but only about once every 50 years, which means the tax payer is paying 4% of what the royal lands will pay them. Doesn't seem unreasonable. And this is before we start talking about tourism. As for why we don't just cut the royals out, they still own the land. Yes, it's held for them by a company (Royal land trust iirc), but they still own it. It is their property. Stop paying them their salary and they can just take back the rent, on the lands which they legally own. |