Royals cost Britain £37m a year
22-06-2005, 16:20
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Re: Royals cost Britain £37m a year
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Originally Posted by SOSAGES
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. |
Alternatively, I can campaign for the abolition of the monarchy, and you can move to a country that does have a monarch.
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people are moaning about 61p a year??
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Nope, I'm 'moaning' about institutionalised inequality.
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22-06-2005, 16:24
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Yes on 17-07-2004 over a year ago and this is todays news? 
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Shall the members of CF club together and pay your 61p?
Life's too short for all this crap again, every few months the republicans try to stir up trouble and then they fail, why keep bothering for 61p/year?
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22-06-2005, 16:27
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Shall the members of CF club together and pay your 61p?
Life's too short for all this crap again, every few months the republicans try to stir up trouble and then they fail, why keep bothering for 61p/year?
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I just thick £36 Mill can be spent on something more usefull like hospitals.
And yes life can be short with out proper funding.
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22-06-2005, 16:33
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I'd be surprised if you could get a new bed sheets for all the hospitals if you spread that out.
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22-06-2005, 16:34
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Re: Royals cost Britain £37m a year
Where do you bye your bed sheets? Harrods?
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22-06-2005, 16:50
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Originally Posted by skunk4u
I just thick £36 Mill can be spent on something more usefull like hospitals.
And yes life can be short with out proper funding.
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Well said that man 
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22-06-2005, 16:56
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Where do you bye your bed sheets? Harrods?
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Do you know how many hospital beds there are?
The anual budget for the NHS is tens of billions of pounds, 36 million would hardly make a difference.
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22-06-2005, 17:05
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Re: Royals cost Britain £37m a year
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Do you know how many hospital beds there are?
The anual budget for the NHS is tens of billions of pounds, 36 million would hardly make a difference.
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244,000 (roughly), let's be generous and allow £30 per bed, that's £7,320, 000, leaving nearly 30 million, so in fact, you probably could kit every single NHS bed out with Harrods sheets and still have plenty left over.
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22-06-2005, 17:12
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Re: Royals cost Britain £37m a year
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Do you know how many hospital beds there are?
The anual budget for the NHS is tens of billions of pounds, 36 million would hardly make a difference.
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244,000 (roughly), let's be generous and allow £30 per bed, that's £7,320, 000, leaving nearly 30 million, so in fact, you probably could kit every single NHS bed out with Harrods sheets and still have plenty left over. |
In fairness to Shaun (and despite my own feelings that our monarchy do not give good value for money - there are a whole load of costs not given in that report), the cost of providing a bed on the NHS is a bit more than the cost of the bed and sheets. You need to provide all the support services (medical, surgical, cleaning, maintenance etc) to go with it.
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22-06-2005, 17:13
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Re: Royals cost Britain £37m a year
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244,000 (roughly), let's be generous and allow £30 per bed, that's £7,320, 000, leaving nearly 30 million, so in fact, you probably could kit every single NHS bed out with Harrods sheets and still have plenty left over.
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Don't forget that you need a clean set for every day (say 4 sets per day) and rubber sheeting and it still proves just far (or not) the money would go.
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22-06-2005, 17:32
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Re: Royals cost Britain £37m a year
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Originally Posted by monkeybreath
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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I'm moaning. That 61p is per every person in Britain, including children, pensioners and unemployed adults. So it's probably a little more that 61p if you only count those that actually pay taxes in this country.
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22-06-2005, 18:04
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Re: Royals cost Britain £37m a year
Appreciate that this has been done to death but what no one ever says is that we could get rid of the Monarchy but to you and me it would make NO Difference at all.
We won't be any better off, we won't have any more money in our pockets and we certainly won't even see where the savings would be spent.
And if we did get rid isn't the alternative a "President/Precidency"???? NOW THAT IS SCARY 
President Thatcher.....President Blair....Noooooooooo 
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22-06-2005, 18:16
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Re: Royals cost Britain £37m a year
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Do you know how many hospital beds there are?
The anual budget for the NHS is tens of billions of pounds, 36 million would hardly make a difference.
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I'd sooner have a president than a monarch anyday.
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22-06-2005, 18:26
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Re: Royals cost Britain £37m a year
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Originally Posted by monkeybreath
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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I must admit when I heard this on the way home from work on R4 I thought, 61p pff I must lose more / waste more than that every year...
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When I read about Charlie Boys £85K trip which could have been done for less than £300 it did rather change my opinion.
That just extracts the urine.
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22-06-2005, 18:43
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Simple for me. I have to give far more money to unwanted illegal immigrants than i have to pay out for the royals. So you can understand which i would sooner have.
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Appreciate that this has been done to death but what no one ever says is that we could get rid of the Monarchy but to you and me it would make NO Difference at all.
We won't be any better off, we won't have any more money in our pockets and we certainly won't even see where the savings would be spent.
And if we did get rid isn't the alternative a "President/Precidency"???? NOW THAT IS SCARY
President Thatcher.....President Blair....Noooooooooo |
Hang on Blair thinks he is the President already
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