Surely its time to end Royal madness

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It's been proven they bring more in than they cost hasn't it? To the tune of about two billion a year from what I can see. I presume it's more in an 'event' year like a wedding or something. It can't be anything but good news that Harry has picked an American to marry, that'll likely increase the numbers further.

I don't understand it personally but the British Royals have a glamour and attraction that brings people from all over the world. It wouldn't be the same touring the 'ruins', everyone's got them.
 
HellsBells said:
And how do we compare with other European Monarchies such as Norway, Sweden and Denmark when it comes to inequality?
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They are far more equal societies than ours maybe the attitude of their Royal families is one of the reasons for that?


"But as Queen Margrethe celebrates her 25th jubilee this year, Danes say she is most revered for what she is not.

"She is not Queen Elizabeth," said salesclerk Nina Korsholm, speaking of the monarch's higher profile relation across the North Sea. "We like it that way. She is one of us. She's not someone who acts superior or detached."

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So ordinary can be Queen Margrethe that she sometimes does her own shopping, traipsing home to Amalienborg Palace with purchases under her arm."
 
Ghost of Bagpuss said:
Phew, good job the article is actually the author of the book summarising the contents of his book rather than an article made up by the Daily Mail (The Daily Mail that has always been a Royalist paper)


"REBEL Prince: The Power, Passion and Defiance of Prince Charles by Tom Bower, published by William Collins on Thursday at £20. © Tom Bower 2018."
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The Mail run negative stories about the royals when they haven’t danced to the Mail’s tune eg by giving them a photo opp that the Mail wanted. Surprised you can’t see through their agenda TBH.
 
gillythedilf said:
Of course that's a given .

But the fake wars in far off lands and the mass immigration it's caused into the EU have been grand for our economic state and social welfare system.
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But the tories voted almost unanimously for Iraq and Afghan, they also started fresh wars in Syria and continue to be the biggest supplier in the world of Saudi weapons which leads to more migrants as they attack Yemen and supply the weapons to ISIS.

The Exile said:
It's been proven they bring more in than they cost hasn't it? To the tune of about two billion a year from what I can see. I presume it's more in an 'event' year like a wedding or something. It can't be anything but good news that Harry has picked an American to marry, that'll likely increase the numbers further.

I don't understand it personally but the British Royals have a glamour and attraction that brings people from all over the world. It wouldn't be the same touring the 'ruins', everyone's got them.
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Impossible to work that out I would say as getting rid of them would create big tourism opportunities.
 
Ghost of Bagpuss said:
Agree on Blairs wars but I must have missed the tories withdrawing from those wars and Im sure they actually started bombing Syria.

As for the Labour spending bull shit that has been debunked so many times it is getting boring....

In the 10 years up to the global crash (that was created by Banking fraud not govt spending) the Labour government ran 5 budget surpluses.....That is more than the tories have managed EVER.
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As the first Gilly ever to never go down the pit since the UK census began it's with great pride I class myself as working class lad from Southwick,Sunderland.
However I never envisaged myself ever voting Tory but that's how detached the Labour Party has become from the WORKING man who wants everyone to put in and pay their way.
 
gillythedilf said:
I'd say the Labour Party and their wars and reckless spending are to blame for the mess we are in.

Tories are only trying to drag us back on an even keel,doesn't go down well on here as a massive % of the North East /this board are employed by the state.
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Clown

Falklands ....then a leading hand in the Gulf Wars.... admittedly Blair carried on her policies throughout his career but he was NEW Labour.

Thatcher was in the US on a state visit when Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein invaded neighbouring Kuwait inAugust 1990.[235] During her talks with President George H. W. Bush, who succeeded Reagan in 1989, she recommended intervention,[235] and put pressure on Bush to deploy troops in the Middle East to drive theIraqi Army out of Kuwait.[236] Bush was apprehensive about the plan, prompting Thatcher to remark to him during a telephone conversation that "This was no time to go wobbly!"[237][238] Thatcher's government supplied military forces to the international coalition in the build-up to the Gulf War, but she had resigned by the time hostilities began on 17 January 1991.[239][240] She applauded the coalition victory as a backbencher, but warned that "the victories of peace will take longer than the battles of war".[241] It was later disclosed that Thatcher suggested threatening Saddam with chemical weapons after the invasion of Kuwait.[242][243]
 
raindog said:
Clown

Falklands ....then a leading hand in the Gulf Wars.... admittedly Blair carried on her policies throughout his career but he was NEW Labour.

Thatcher was in the US on a state visit when Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein invaded neighbouring Kuwait inAugust 1990.[235] During her talks with President George H. W. Bush, who succeeded Reagan in 1989, she recommended intervention,[235] and put pressure on Bush to deploy troops in the Middle East to drive theIraqi Army out of Kuwait.[236] Bush was apprehensive about the plan, prompting Thatcher to remark to him during a telephone conversation that "This was no time to go wobbly!"[237][238] Thatcher's government supplied military forces to the international coalition in the build-up to the Gulf War, but she had resigned by the time hostilities began on 17 January 1991.[239][240] She applauded the coalition victory as a backbencher, but warned that "the victories of peace will take longer than the battles of war".[241] It was later disclosed that Thatcher suggested threatening Saddam with chemical weapons after the invasion of Kuwait.[242][243]
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Who do you think your calling a clown??
 
WHD said:
No, I don't believe it has. I'd be interested to see your source if you have one.


Just like in France, which incidentally gets more tourists.
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Do you honestly think the absence of a monarchy is the sole reason why France gets more tourists? Nothing to do with the wider representations of beauty and romance which reflects the country as a whole in its international reputation?
 
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