Royals cost Britain £37m a year
22-06-2005, 14:51
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Royals cost Britain £37m a year
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4119194.stm
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The Royal Family cost Britons £36.7m last year, equivalent to 61p per taxpayer, new figures show.
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22-06-2005, 14:57
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Re: Royals cost Britain £37m a year
I believe this has been exhausted here. 
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22-06-2005, 14:58
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Re: Royals cost Britain £37m a year
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Originally Posted by Diamond
I believe this has been exhausted here. |
Yes on 17-07-2004 over a year ago and this is todays news? 
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22-06-2005, 15:02
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Re: Royals cost Britain £37m a year
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Originally Posted by skunk4u
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IMO it has been time to get rid of the Monarchy for a very long time, it doesn't matter how much it (the Monarchy) costs.
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22-06-2005, 15:04
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Re: Royals cost Britain £37m a year
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Originally Posted by philip.j.fry
IMO it has been time to get rid of them for a very long time regardless of how much they cost.
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Even thought we get a lot of tourist out of them? Be intresting to see how much money they make out of tourists and them being them. What do they do anyway?
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22-06-2005, 15:12
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Re: Royals cost Britain £37m a year
The age old argument .. "they generate tourism". How ??
Tourists never get to see any of the Royal Family, they see Buck House and Changing the Guard etc. How much more income would be generated if Buck House were open to the public ? We should keep all the pomp and ceremony heritage stuff for the tourists, just without the expensive hangers on ! Without the security aspect keeping it all behind closed doors that would generate even more cash !.
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22-06-2005, 15:19
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Re: Royals cost Britain £37m a year
Problem is it excludes security costs which must be massive.
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22-06-2005, 15:24
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Re: Royals cost Britain £37m a year
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Originally Posted by skunk4u
Even thought we get a lot of tourist out of them? Be intresting to see how much money they make out of tourists and them being them. What do they do anyway?
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We can't put a figure on how much money is generated in tourismt hough, I don't think figures would fall as much as people fear they would.
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22-06-2005, 15:25
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Re: Royals cost Britain £37m a year
Time to get rid then IMO they must be laugthing in are faces......... 
Oh to be a royal....
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22-06-2005, 15:32
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Re: Royals cost Britain £37m a year
they could always work for a living.
how about tony blair getting them on the new deal,you never know camilla could get a job shelf stacking at the local tesco's (minimum wage of course).
and if charlie boy is missing her he could always get a job working the petrol pumps at the same place. 
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22-06-2005, 15:42
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Originally Posted by andy 1
they could always work for a living.
how about tony blair getting them on the new deal,you never know camilla could get a job shelf stacking at the local tesco's (minimum wage of course).
and if charlie boy is missing her he could always get a job working the petrol pumps at the same place.
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LOL. Love it, yeah, put queenie & phil the greek into a council house on a run down estate. I see that charlie flew to Washington to attend a funeral at £85,000 when he probably could have bought a ticket for less than £300. how can we complain about corruption overseas when we allow this abuse to happen here!
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22-06-2005, 15:52
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Re: Royals cost Britain £37m a year
I think how much they cost needs looking in to but I would not like to see them gone as they are part of our history
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22-06-2005, 16:07
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Re: Royals cost Britain £37m a year
people are moaning about 61p a year??
forgive me for thinking that is a little petty- considering how much tax/ NI you pay anyway; i think this amount pales in comparison.
In a year i bet most people lose more than 61p in pennies that they drop/ "keep the change" etc etc
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22-06-2005, 16:13
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Re: Royals cost Britain £37m a year
are they doing any harm? nope dont think so if u dont like it move to a country that dosnt have some royal family  simple as that.
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22-06-2005, 16:16
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Re: Royals cost Britain £37m a year
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are they doing any harm? nope dont think so if u dont like it move to a country that dosnt have some royal family simple as that. |
i'd love to.
just two problems though,i can't afford it and i'm to old to emigrate
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