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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Originally posted by morrocan roll
    what a fucking joke ...the 21st century and we're still living in the land of once upon a time ...
    Oh don't be so boring. I think having fairytale Kings and Queens in real life is quite romantic. Seriously, would you rather watch a golden horse-drawn carriage driving up the Mall or a communist-style tank parade? I know which I'd prefer.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Neither thanks.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Originally posted by Captain Slog
    Oh don't be so boring. I think having fairytale Kings and Queens in real life is quite romantic. Seriously, would you rather watch a golden horse-drawn carriage driving up the Mall or a communist-style tank parade? I know which I'd prefer.

    I'd rather that the equivalent to £15 million of taxpayers money that was used on the recent wedding here, was used on education instead.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Originally posted by Captain Slog
    Oh don't be so boring. I think having fairytale Kings and Queens in real life is quite romantic. Seriously, would you rather watch a golden horse-drawn carriage driving up the Mall or a communist-style tank parade? I know which I'd prefer.

    Well i cant stand the royals so i know which i would prefer out of the two ;)
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Originally posted by Jacqueline the Ripper
    I'd rather that the equivalent to £15 million of taxpayers money that was used on the recent wedding here, was used on education instead.

    If you look at the actual figures you'll learn that the royal family generate a not insubstantial profit for the UK treasury. But ofcourse, you knew that.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Originally posted by UpsetChap
    If you look at the actual figures you'll learn that the royal family generate a not insubstantial profit for the UK treasury. But ofcourse, you knew that.
    here we go ...theres not a lot of difference between princes anne and
    blackpool tower when it comes to amusement rides ...
    and that prince andrew generates nearly as much money for the uk economy as scarborough.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Originally posted by UpsetChap
    If you look at the actual figures you'll learn that the royal family generate a not insubstantial profit for the UK treasury. But ofcourse, you knew that.

    No, how should I know that. Please explain.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Originally posted by morrocan roll
    here we go ...theres not a lot of difference between princes anne and
    blackpool tower when it comes to amusement rides ...
    and that prince andrew generates nearly as much money for the uk economy as scarborough.

    Would you like to rephrase that into some kind of coherent argument? Or maybe a sentence?
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Ok in extraordinarily simplified terms the UK treasury pays the official expenses of the royal family around £35million in exchange for them surrendering large chunks of their private income and estate, around £170million. Thats an £135million profit. Something largely ignored by most people who jump on the whole "lets get rid of the royals and use the money on education" bandwagon.

    If we got rid of the monarchy they'd walk away considerably richer than they are at the moment.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Thats why I advocate hanging them.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Could you explain that further?
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Me? Simple. String 'em up from a lampost. :D
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Originally posted by Blagsta
    Thats why I advocate hanging them.

    And why you're at it why don't you just hang everyone else with earnings over £50'000 a year? How dare anyone be affluent.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Sounds like a good idea.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Originally posted by UpsetChap
    Would you like to rephrase that into some kind of coherent argument? Or maybe a sentence?
    you know damn well that i was saying here we go ...here come the tourist attraction figures ...they generate blah blah blah.
    in my opinion, if thats yoiur only argument for retraing them as oposed to handing them over to blagsta then i'll tell you a little secret; if we stuffed them and put them on show in their palaces and open them up to the world ...we'd make five times as much!
    'the history tour of the u.k's fascination for dysfunctional european families' bloody germans ...bombed our chippies you know.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Blagsta, that wasn't aimd at you, but rather at UpsetChap.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Originally posted by morrocan roll
    you know damn well that i was saying here we go ...here come the tourist attraction figures ...they generate blah blah blah.
    in my opinion, if thats yoiur only argument for retraing them as oposed to handing them over to blagsta then i'll tell you a little secret; if we stuffed them and put them on show in their palaces and open them up to the world ...we'd make five times as much!
    'the history tour of the u.k's fascination for dysfunctional european families' bloody germans ...bombed our chippies you know.

    Did you read the post? The money I was referring to isn't generated through tourism you bloody tool. It's from their PRIVATE ESTATE which they're surrendering to the UK treasury.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Originally posted by UpsetChap
    Did you read the post? The money I was referring to isn't generated through tourism you bloody tool. It's from their PRIVATE ESTATE which they're surrendering to the UK treasury.
    no i didn't read the fucking post cos it wasn't there at the time! i was replying to you r earlier post.
    i was predicting the usualy so predictable e in this same old topic.
    you new this would turn into one of these didn't you alladin ...
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Originally posted by UpsetChap
    Did you read the post? The money I was referring to isn't generated through tourism you bloody tool. It's from their PRIVATE ESTATE which they're surrendering to the UK treasury.

    Yeah and where did that come from?
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Originally posted by Jacqueline the Ripper
    Blagsta, that wasn't aimd at you, but rather at UpsetChap.

    I know, I was taking the piss.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    The French have quite a good tourist industry and didnt they cut the heads of they monarchs in the French Revolution?
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Originally posted by marv
    didnt they cut the heads of they monarchs in the French Revolution?
    we will be allowed to do that when we join the single currency ...
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Well give me a pen and paper and i will sign on the dotted line!!!!

    We could charge admission that would raise a few pennies for the treasury and give our tourism a boast!!! :D
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Originally posted by Blagsta
    Yeah and where did that come from?

    Not the taxpayer. Which shatters you're little "we'd be richer without them" argument.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Originally posted by UpsetChap
    Not the taxpayer. Which shatters you're little "we'd be richer without them" argument.
    i don't think anyones realy that interested in the cash. it's a soap thats come to its end ...or should have done. come on it has to be worse than crossroads.
    bernahrd manning marries the queen ...
    it's tasteless ...tacky ...and has no place in a 21st century democracy. you know democracy ...that thing were forcing down peoples throats with the aid of our weapons of mass destruction.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Originally posted by morrocan roll
    i don't think anyones realy that interested in the cash. it's a soap thats come to its end ...or should have done. come on it has to be worse than crossroads.
    bernahrd manning marries the queen ...
    it's tasteless ...tacky ...and has no place in a 21st century democracy. you know democracy ...that thing were forcing down peoples throats with the aid of our weapons of mass destruction.

    So what precisely is wrong with an institution that serve as a source of tourism, generate a profitable income for the UK treasury and act as a figurehead for the country?
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    It goes against his idyllic socialist views. Anyone who doesn't work for a living or lives in a house worth more than £300,000 is scum.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Originally posted by minimi38
    It goes against his idyllic socialist views. Anyone who doesn't work for a living or lives in a house worth more than £300,000 is scum.
    what a sad fuck you are.
    i'd tell you what my house is worth but you might fucking choke on your arrogance.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Arrogance? I dont own a house. I dont have a job. I dont have decent qualifications. I am worth approximatly £0. Where was the arrogance in showing contempt for socialist views? It was kinda a piss take.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Originally posted by minimi38
    Arrogance? I dont own a house. I dont have a job. I dont have decent qualifications. I am worth approximatly £0. Where was the arrogance in showing contempt for socialist views? It was kinda a piss take.
    no ones mentioned socialism apart from you.
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