Scottyboi
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Remember when Jimmy Saville was Charles go to man for PR advice.
The British Monarchy
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Alan Harper's Tash
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I recognise that you can’t just create 1,000 years of history, which is probably why Who wants to be a King on air hasn’t swept round the world.
Cowell would have been all over it.
johnmc
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It’s a nonsense article and basically it’s impossible to quantify the effect a standing royal family have on the income to the country.“While the average annual cost for UK taxpayers(*) in royal upkeep comes to around £500m per year, Brand Finance estimates the monarchy’s brand contributes £2.5b to the British economy in the same timeframe.”
How much money does the royal family bring in tourism?
Each year, millions of tourists travel to the UK to visit its many historical royal landmarkswww.independent.co.uk
I read somewhere else this week that they’ve brought in over £18b to the Bitish economy over the last decade. All for £1.50 a year per person(*).
Well worth it.
If they want to live a life similar to permanently being on a reality TV show, constantly in the public eye, almost like real life Royal cartoon characters for the world to constantly gawp at (I couldn’t think of a worse way to live), to bring in so much money for the economy, then it’s a no brainer to keep them.
They are just an amusement product or tourist attraction that we use to bring in money to the country. Why would we get rid of something that brings in a lot more money money than it costs to run?
(* all of our taxes - every penny, every year - go straight to the country’s deficit so we actually don’t personally fund them at all)
The article includes income from visitors to the various palaces and the like. So basically states that these wouldn’t be visited if there wasn’t a standing royal family? The palace of Versailles for example has c.15m visitors a year.
Probably why the vast discrepancies in the figure exist
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No thankyou to a democratic republic I’ll keep what we have, the idea that Boris or Truss or anyone else voted for by the public could rule over us is not my idea of Britain. The monarchy get on with meet and greet and parliament head down and sort out the mess we are in. If they neglect the public we can vote them out.
The Queen did a great job so will Charles and William there personal lives don’t affect me I’m happy with the hereditary monarchy.
Every thing they have belongs to us the nation castles, palaces imagine the last 10 years it would all be sold off to the highest bidder.
The Queen did a great job so will Charles and William there personal lives don’t affect me I’m happy with the hereditary monarchy.
Every thing they have belongs to us the nation castles, palaces imagine the last 10 years it would all be sold off to the highest bidder.
People complain about Russians beliving state proganda or Kim Jong-il's round of golf with 11 hole in ones, but then believe things like this.“While the average annual cost for UK taxpayers(*) in royal upkeep comes to around £500m per year, Brand Finance estimates the monarchy’s brand contributes £2.5b to the British economy in the same timeframe.”
How much money does the royal family bring in tourism?
Each year, millions of tourists travel to the UK to visit its many historical royal landmarks
I read somewhere else this week that they’ve brought in over £18b to the Bitish economy over the last decade. All for £1.50 a year per person(*).
Well worth it.
If they want to live a life similar to permanently being on a reality TV show, constantly in the public eye, almost like real life Royal cartoon characters for the world to constantly gawp at (I couldn’t think of a worse way to live), to bring in so much money for the economy, then it’s a no brainer to keep them.
They are just an amusement product or tourist attraction that we use to bring in money to the country. Why would we get rid of something that brings in a lot more money money than it costs to run?
(* all of our taxes - every penny, every year - go straight to the country’s deficit so we actually don’t personally fund them at all)
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Everything would have been sold off and re-purchased using a PFI.
And Nigel Farage would have been President. I’m only half-joking on Farage as well.
President Thatcher, President Blair, President Johnson ;-(, i'd sooner get a season ticket in the Stretford End.
The Light Was Yellow Sir
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Once we voted for Brexit surely any financial considerations are secondary to any other arguments?“While the average annual cost for UK taxpayers(*) in royal upkeep comes to around £500m per year, Brand Finance estimates the monarchy’s brand contributes £2.5b to the British economy in the same timeframe.”
How much money does the royal family bring in tourism?
Each year, millions of tourists travel to the UK to visit its many historical royal landmarks
I read somewhere else this week that they’ve brought in over £18b to the Bitish economy over the last decade. All for £1.50 a year per person(*).
Well worth it.
If they want to live a life similar to permanently being on a reality TV show, constantly in the public eye, almost like real life Royal cartoon characters for the world to constantly gawp at (I couldn’t think of a worse way to live), to bring in so much money for the economy, then it’s a no brainer to keep them.
They are just an amusement product or tourist attraction that we use to bring in money to the country. Why would we get rid of something that brings in a lot more money money than it costs to run?
(* all of our taxes - every penny, every year - go straight to the country’s deficit so we actually don’t personally fund them at all)