The Royal Family Discussion Thread

[Top Cats Hat]

When a celebrity couple's pregnancy announcement tops the Brexit negotiations on the lunchtime news, I fear for this country.

[nouxnoux]

Brilliant news. So pleased for them. What a miserable lot you are.

[nikki-red]

Brilliant news. So pleased for them. What a miserable lot you are.

 

 

I agree, and we need all the good, happy news we can get lately.

Im perfectly happy to pay my 69p a year.

[hauxwell]

Lovely news. Best wishes to both of them.

[Ontarian1981]

I announced to everyone about our impending 2nd child at a wedding, in my speech.

 

 

 

 

 

(I was the groom)

 

I came on to say "Was it your own wedding?" I didn't see the little thing at the bottom:hihi:

 

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Can the same not be said about benefit claimants. They really are a drain on the public purse. At least the Royals provide an economic benefit. The same cannot be said about the people on welfare.

 

So everyone on welfare is a bum and deserves all they get eh? Nice bit of compassion there mate,

Keep waving the flag.

 

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I agree, and we need all the good, happy news we can get lately.

Im perfectly happy to pay my 69p a year.

 

Don't quite get the 69p part. Obviously, because I am no longer a UK resident.

[nikki-red]

Don't quite get the 69p part. Obviously, because I am no longer a UK resident.

 

 

The Royal Family costs each British taxpayer 69p per year (or did last year anyway).

[hauxwell]

I came on to say "Was it your own wedding?" I didn't see the little thing at the bottom:hihi:

 

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So everyone on welfare is a bum and deserves all they get eh? Nice bit of compassion there mate,

Keep waving the flag.

 

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Don't quite get the 69p part. Obviously, because I am no longer a UK resident.

 

I think it costs the tax payer 69p a year to keep the Royals.

[Ontarian1981]

I think it costs the tax payer 69p a year to keep the Royals.

 

Thanks, folks now I get it. Hardly worth making a fuss about, is it?

Edited October 15, 2018 by Ontarian1981

[alchemist]

Thanks, folks now I get it. Hardly worth making a fuss about, is it?

 

Not really, however it seems that some people find even that small an amount too much and makes their blood boil!!!

 

Curious, anyone know how much a year we tax payers pay a year for the REAL waste of space and money, those 650 layabouts in the palace of westminster?

[Jomie]

If it is true that they cost each taxpayer 69p then given the choice some people would probably prefer to donate the sum to a charity of choice, not to some of the richest people in the land.

 

It's a struggle to fathom out what they are for. They seem to have morphed into a combination of a live soap opera and glorified fund raisers. The charity work is the only thing that justifies their existence.

 

There is something incongruous about folk who go round encouraging others to spend their money on charities when they are so very wealthy themselves and when the women are wearing clothes costing thousands and thousands of pounds. The cost of the actress's clothes at the recent wedding was enough to feed a family for some months. As for announcing a pregnancy at someone else's wedding, it was terribly selfish and bad manners. There was no need for it - they could have waited to release the news but someone clearly wanted to be in the limelight.

 

The family is becoming increasingly bloated in numbers as each grandchild produces children of their own. The whole institution needs to be drastically slimmed down (as with some of the Nordic royal families), including Harry and his wife. We should only pay for the Queen and her immediate heirs. anyone past 5th in line should be making their own way in the world, outside of the public eye.

 

If anyone is thinking that we need the monarchy, they should perhaps reflect on the fact that of those many countries who have abolished it, most of them have not reinstated it. They seem to have managed perfectly well without a monarch.