It's a princess, congratulations to Kate and Will

[Harleyman]

Is that a quote from George Washington?

 

 

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Why would they go into exile if the transition was democratic?

 

 

Apart from tax it, of course.

 

 

I thought these places were magnets for tourists, and now they're crumbling wrecks. If we have a monarch, they're making us money. If we don't, they're costing us money.

 

I've never got my head around the 'tourist argument'. Why we base our government on what foreign tourists want is beyond me.

 

 

When did the French turn Versailles into a people's collective? It was a tourist attraction when I went.

 

 

Give enough time and the tories'll privatise em, no doubt.

 

Why would they want to remain in the UK after the humiliation of losing the throne? No sentiment about remaining there I'm sure. The Queen could transfer all her private wealth into Swiss bank accounts or tax shelters in the Caymen Islands and flip off the UK Internal Revenue Service. I see her settling down in Palm Beach, Florida and getting started on her memoirs which would automatically shoot right up to number one on the New York Times best seller list. As for William and Kate and the others Vegas would be the place. A brand new 5,000 bed Casino, the Windsor Regency Casino and Resort dominating the Strip, the dollars piling in and no more speeches, tape cutting or having to smile at drooling babies being suddenly thrust into their faces.

 

A new Socialist orientated republican type admin. could do a quick auctioning off of the crown jewels and maybe Bill Gates or Oprah Winfrey might just snap em up' The money could be spent very wisely as always.

Plenty of immigrants from North Africa making their way from Italy, Greece and Spain to UK will need lots of housing and welfare benefits once they get there no doubt

Edited May 8, 2015 by Harleyman

[Sierra]

Give it a week and the sprog will have a few medals dangling from her bib.

 

:hihi:

 

I feel so sorry for the French. After doing away with their monarchy, the palaces have fallen in to rack and ruin. They had to open Disneyland to compensate for the lack of visitors to Versailles which has now been turned in to a Victorian-themed market.

 

That's awful. Tourism brings in money and keeps scads of people employed. However, it does have it's downside. It's like inviting people you'd rather not associate with into your living room.

[perplexed]

First off I am not a servile monarchist. I live in a republic that long ago was a bunch of colonies ruled by a monarch.

If the day comes that the UK decides to do away with the monarchy by popular vote then that's just democracy in action

 

Changing over to a republic with a complete reorganization of government wouldn't come cheap but I imagine you already know that.

 

The Queen and the rest of them would go into exile, (pick a paradise somewhere) and take all her wealth with her. That would be the wealth she has accumulated through business dealings and investments and there's nothing the government could do to get their hands on it. Personal wealth is personal wealth. She would of course leave behind a bunch of residences which probably need a few million quidsworth of work done on them and if the new government of the new repuiblic were hard lefties they could turn them into accommodations for asylum seekers or the homeless. That would certainly appeal to their sense of justice just as the French and the Russians seized all the privately owned land and turned it into peoples collectives.

 

They could also flog the crown jewels to help pay off the national debt.

 

Meanwhile there would be people everywhere pizzing and moaning about the new President and his admin because they were of a different party that the malcontents voted for and lost.

 

As the old saying goes "Plus ca change, plus ca reste la meme"

 

Well done for dodging the questions with a post full of, well, not much at all.

[Harleyman]

France and Britain are over toured. Some of the people you have to come into contact in those countries are just burned out. Not outright rude but plainly sick of the sight of having to deal with tourists

 

I'd like to visit the land of my mother's, Ireland, but it wont happen. I can imagine it all jammed packed with tourists. Every quaint little Irish village with a souvenir store selling plastic leprechauns, Irish bonnets and green T- shirts saying "rub me head and get three wishes" and horror of horrors they've converted O'Malleys Tavern in Bunratty where me grandfather use to drink into another bleddy McDonald's

 

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Well done for dodging the questions with a post full of, well, not much at all.

 

Didn't dodge any question. I questioned your statement that "Britain should not be a theme park for tourists" which as I repeat once again, it is not.

 

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:hihi:

 

 

 

That's awful. Tourism brings in money and keeps scads of people employed. However, it does have it's downside. It's like inviting people you'd rather not associate with into your living room.

 

Not many of the trappings inside Versailles are genuine. Fake reproductions of the original furniture. The French revolutionaries ransacked the whole place, nicked just about everything inside.

Edited May 9, 2015 by Harleyman

[Chris_Sleeps]

Why would they want to remain in the UK after the humiliation of losing the throne? [...] I see her settling down in Palm Beach, Florida

Why would they want to remain in America after the humiliation of losing the throne?

 

A new Socialist orientated republican type admin. could do a quick auctioning off of the crown jewels and maybe Bill Gates or Oprah Winfrey might just snap em up' The money could be spent very wisely as always.

I've told you. The Tories could privatise them.

Plenty of immigrants from [...] Greece [...] will need lots of housing and welfare benefits once they get there no doubt

I don't like how you're speaking about Prince Philip there.

[Tommo68]

Now that two sprogs have been bred to keep the gravy train going will Kate be out of the door .job done.

 

She might be ok as long as she stays away from getting a divorce, talking to the media and travelling in the back of cars with men other than her present husband.

 

Although rumor has it that she has already upset her mum in law.... not normally a big thing but in her case.....

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[cuttsie]

She might be ok as long as she stays away from getting a divorce, talking to the media and travelling in the back of cars with men other than her present husband.

 

Although rumor has it that she has already upset her mum in law.... not normally a big thing but in her case.....

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She's upset her mother in law wow!!!!!!,

[Harleyman]

Why would they want to remain in America after the humiliation of losing the throne?

 

 

I've told you. The Tories could privatise them.

 

I don't like how you're speaking about Prince Philip there.

 

Before he met Elizabeth he was a prince without a country, put another way, a royal welfare case. It was his uncle Mountbatten who arranged for him to meet the young Elizabeth.

 

To give him credit he did serve honourably and well in the Royal Navy during WW2.

 

In later years he often got his foot stuck in his mouth with his tactless remarks and behavior but that's understandable as he's a German and they are hardly known for their tact and humility'

 

I never liked him much after his remark that "British workers need to get their fingers out" when it came to industrial matters. A rather cheeky blighter who got it all on a silver platter the easy way

[Tommo68]

It appears that the wee girl and her older sibling have very interesting ethnic roots not just the german and european bits we all know about. Bearing in mind that their parents are both distant to cousins, as were their grandparents, its wonder neither of them has six fingers and time will tell if they have an aptitude for playing the banjo with an inclination to drink moonshine.

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[Harleyman]

It appears that the wee girl and her older sibling have very interesting ethnic roots not just the german and european bits we all know about. Bearing in mind that their parents are both distant to cousins, as were their grandparents, its wonder neither of them has six fingers and time will tell if they have an aptitude for playing the banjo with an inclination to drink moonshine.

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In that case if you go back packing don't let any of her kin catch you in a remote area