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Denster wrote:The royal family are immensely popular throughout the world.

Photek wrote:

Denster wrote:The royal family are immensely popular throughout the world.

Define 'popular'.

Denster wrote:I like the royal family. I'm happy to pay for the upkeep of a Royal palace that will continue to draw visitors and earn revenues for years to come. It's an iconic landmark and if it were publicly owned - we wouldnt even be having this discussion

Irene Demova wrote:

Fries. Wedges. Crisps? wrote:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-38025513

Buckingham Palace to get £369m refurbishment

Undemocratic
Unelected
Needless expenses
Lack of Sovereignty
Need to take back control
Rich Elites

Oh wait that's the EU, I like the Queen because she doesn't talk much. Hey look Netflix has a show about how great she is!

Squinty wrote:I read somewhere that the monarchy generate close to 500 million a year in revenue. I may not like the idea of them, but if that's true, that's a gooseberry fool lot of money. So yeah, I'm okay with this if the numbers are correct, its going to be phased over ten years as well.

George III had huge debts, so offered Parliament a deal. In exchange for a fixed salary, the land being maintained by the tax payer and the debts being wiped, Parliament would get the rent from the lands.

Today, that salary is around £40m a year, which sounds like a lot, until you realise the rent is £200m a year, which means Parliament pays in £1 and gets £5 back. Seems like a good investment to me.

Now, this repairing business has to be done, but only about once every 50 years, which means the tax payer is paying 4% of what the royal lands will pay them. Doesn't seem unreasonable.

And this is before we start talking about tourism.

As for why we don't just cut the royals out, they still own the land. Yes, it's held for them by a company (Royal land trust iirc), but they still own it. It is their property. Stop paying them their salary and they can just take back the rent, on the lands which they legally own.

what you fail to understand, is that I will do my own strawberry floating research if/when I can be arsed. Why the strawberry float can't you let people post what they want on their own facebook pages? If it enrages you to the point that you have to google gooseberry fool and find sources then unfollow me. I don't need you shitting over the things I post because you have to prove that you are smarter than those around you.

Fade wrote:Guys, I dont know if you are aware, but the government gets 140 million pounds a year from the rent of royal owned land. So the royals have easily paid way more into the government than they are paying out for this refurbishment.

Do some strawberry floating research.

Edit: what manny said

Anyone else find it scary how anti intellectual some people are? I called someone out on this on facebook and they said this:

what you fail to understand, is that I will do my own strawberry floating research if/when I can be arsed. Why the strawberry float can't you let people post what they want on their own facebook pages? If it enrages you to the point that you have to google gooseberry fool and find sources then unfollow me. I don't need you shitting over the things I post because you have to prove that you are smarter than those around you.

Apparently me pointing out something by googling for sources means I'm super angry.

Yeah, you know what, let's just share stuff that isn't true, and if people believe it who cares! Nothing bad could come of that could it? *cough brexit* *cough trump*