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PostPosted: 09:31 - 30 Jun 2009    Post subject: More expenses accounts published Reply with quote
In the last year spending by the Royals came to £41.5m

Which includes things like...
£150k for the queens cousin and his wife to go to some islands in the South Pacific.
£250k renovating Princess Beatrice apartment for her whilst she is at uni. "People have this image of what a palace apartment looks like but the reality is very different. It is a small set of attic rooms reached only by a spiral staircase of 60 steps." Laughing
£400k on computers and IT systems.
£9.9m on salaries for the queens staff.

Makes the all MP expenses seem small! Shocked

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PostPosted: 09:55 - 30 Jun 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
'Oh, but they bring in tourism worth far more'

Rolling Eyes

DIRECT royals may do, possibly.

God knows how many of Ze Germans are on the payroll, but I'd bet it's in 3 figures.

Cunts, the lot of em.
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PostPosted: 10:48 - 30 Jun 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
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PostPosted: 13:31 - 30 Jun 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
Imbred dangerous criminals.

(bet they didn't mention the royals dodgy links to weapons firms either)

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PostPosted: 15:44 - 30 Jun 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
bonny_ricardo wrote:
'Oh, but they bring in tourism worth far more'


They do.

The Crown Estate also pays around £190 million directly into the treasury, for Brown to waste on more hair-brained schemes to prop up his ailing government of lies.

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God knows how many of Ze Germans are on the payroll, but I'd bet it's in 3 figures.


Only the Queen and Phil the Greek are actually paid for by the civil list, HM pays the rest back to the taxpayer, and pays for all the minor royals out of the Privy Purse.

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Cunts, the lot of em.


We're all cunts in some way - few people posting on BCF are in a position to point the finger blamelessly!

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PostPosted: 22:18 - 30 Jun 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
Mister James wrote:


We're all cunts in some way - few people posting on BCF are in a position to point the finger blamelessly!

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PostPosted: 22:33 - 30 Jun 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
Mister James wrote:
bonny_ricardo wrote:
'Oh, but they bring in tourism worth far more'


They do.


Indeed. You'll find that balanced arguments and facts confuse the average gutter press tabloid reader though! Wink

The Independent wrote:
The Palace says that the total £41.5m cost of the Queen amounts to 69p per taxpayer per year. But this does not take into account the bill for security provided by the police and the Army and ceremonial duties performed by the Armed Forces.


No effort to attempt calculations for input into the economy then... What a shock.
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PostPosted: 22:37 - 30 Jun 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
So is the only argument for having the royal family a purely economic one then?

Because if it is I'd sooner pay a bit more tax and have them turfed out on the street like the Nazi-sympathisers and eugenic-crazed fucking lunatics that they are. Very Happy
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PostPosted: 22:52 - 30 Jun 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
Kris wrote:
So is the only argument for having the royal family a purely economic one then?

Because if it is I'd sooner pay a bit more tax and have them turfed out on the street like the Nazi-sympathisers and eugenic-crazed fucking lunatics that they are. Very Happy


An unreliable source ( I haven't done any back ground checks on the author or the printers and their political leanings or who they have had at any birthday parties of their children) claim that it is 68 pence per person per year, person being a human being as per............ well you get the slant.
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PostPosted: 22:55 - 30 Jun 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
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So is the only argument for having the royal family a purely economic one then?


Not in my mind, but that seems to be the way most of these debates go. If want to vote for President Gordon Brown, be my guest.... Shocked
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PostPosted: 23:08 - 30 Jun 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
Silver wrote:
Kris wrote:
So is the only argument for having the royal family a purely economic one then?


Not in my mind, but that seems to be the way most of these debates go. If want to vote for President Gordon Brown, be my guest.... Shocked


I'd rather be able to vote someone in than have to bow down to some old German hag. Why do they have all of this wealth and opulence? Because generations ago their ancestors fucked our ancestors over good and proper. And now you defend them?

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I'd love to know why you're for them. I really would.
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PostPosted: 23:24 - 30 Jun 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
Kris wrote:
I'd rather be able to vote someone in than have to bow down to some old German hag. Why do they have all of this wealth and opulence?


C'mon, try something other than insults if you have any intention of forming a valid argument. It's only a matter of time before someone begins with the "self serving vermin" rant followed by, "line them up against the wall and put one between the eyes" etc...

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Because generations ago their ancestors fucked our ancestors over good and proper.


Jeez... so if you discovered one of your ancestors was a rapist would you want stringing up? We don't want double standards.

Kris wrote:
And now you defend them?


I'm not defending them in the way you infer, I'm just not taking the popular "abolish the monarchy, they're don't do nothing, innit" stance. Call it devil's advocate, although it's pretty dull reading posts from people who believe anyone who's rich (by their standards, obviously) should be fucked over.

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I'd love to know why you're for them. I really would.


I'm proud of my British heritage (for what it's worth), and I'm proud of my country's history (by and large). The monarchy accounts for a large proportion of this. Like it or not, they do have input into the economy and the cost of the Civil List is a relative drop in the ocean.
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PostPosted: 23:43 - 30 Jun 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
Kris wrote:
So is the only argument for having the royal family a purely economic one then?


No, but it was the argument being advanced against them in this thread.
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The royals are brilliant, they're the perfect excuse for any dole-scrounging smackhead. "If it's good enough for those feckers it's good enough for me!"

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I'll put my hands up - I was counting down to a Hetzer rant, but I wasn't expecting it to come from that angle! Touche sir!
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I'll put my hands up - I was counting down to a Hetzer rant, but I wasn't expecting it to come from that angle! Touche sir!


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Silver wrote:
I'm proud of my British heritage (for what it's worth), and I'm proud of my country's history (by and large). The monarchy accounts for a large proportion of this. Like it or not, they do have input into the economy and the cost of the Civil List is a relative drop in the ocean.


Ah I see, it's tradition innit. Rolling Eyes Why not complete the 'Britishness look' with a scale model RouteMaster and a red telephone box. It's good enough for the Chinese tourists around london right?

See, when I look at the Royals all I see are imbred parasites, feeding off of past history and arms trades. When I read that the Duke of Edinburgh would like to kill 80% of us off it reminds me how twisted and sick those that place themselves at the top of the evolutionary tree really are. They really are stuck in some Imperialist time-warp with Darwinistic ideals.

Still, there will always be the 'hangers-on' and those that live life and identify success through other's gains.

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Lots of anti royal sentiment I see.

Pretty much boils down to one thing though - jealousy.

By odd chance these people have been born in their circumstances, with all the benefits and problems that those circumstances bring.

What would you do if you had been born into those circumstances? Give up all your wealth, privelidges and sweet lifestyle? Like fuck you would.

And if you believe they should give up all that, then where does it stop? Giving up any inherited benefits? I don't anticipate inheriting a lot at all, but you can kiss my swingers if you think I would give it up, and I would be distraught to think what I have worked for would be taken from my offspring.

You must remember that (granted a long time ago now), their ancestors worked to get to the positions which led to the long legacy which has led to the Royal family being present in the UK now, why is it wrong that they should continue to hold those positions?

It's not like they're fucking you (the man on the street) over. They're pretty harmless as far as I can see, and I'd rather they be there through birthright than have a power hungry ego manic elected President be the Nation's figurehead.

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When I read that the Duke of Edinburgh would like to kill 80% of us


He has a point tbh. There are far too many of us kicking about, and a lot of them are utter fuckwits.
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PostPosted: 09:24 - 01 Jul 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
Mister James wrote:
bonny_ricardo wrote:
'Oh, but they bring in tourism worth far more'


They do.

Some of them do (the queen)... I'd say that most of them don't.

Mister James wrote:
The Crown Estate also pays around £190 million directly into the treasury, for Brown to waste on more hair-brained schemes to prop up his ailing government of lies.

Would the £190m would still be paid regardless of if owned by royals or not?

Lots of the Royals expenses are comparable to MPs claims... unnecessary and overly expensive. £250k renovating Princess Beatrice apartment for her to go to uni? £33k for the Prince of Wales to take a private jet to visit the Bushmills whiskey distillery? Surely most of the expenses could be done for much cheaper using a small amount of common sense?
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Kris wrote:
Ah I see, it's tradition innit. Rolling Eyes


I'm not sure what your point is, other than a tenuous attempt to turn my language back on myself. You want no tradition and a presidency, move to America; everything's big, shiny and new there... and "history" need not go back further than three generations.

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Why not complete the 'Britishness look' with a scale model RouteMaster and a red telephone box. It's good enough for the Chinese tourists around london right?


Sure. Shall we all wear t-shirts with Bulldogs on the front, Doc Martins and wander around swigging lager too? If you're going to go down the stereotyping route you may as well go the whole hog.

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See, when I look at the Royals all I see are imbred parasites, feeding off of past history and arms trades. When I read that the Duke of Edinburgh would like to kill 80% of us off it reminds me how twisted and sick those that place themselves at the top of the evolutionary tree really are. They really are stuck in some Imperialist time-warp with Darwinistic ideals.

Still, there will always be the 'hangers-on' and those that live life and identify success through other's gains.

Laughing


Wow, that's a whole lot of bitterness and resentment. I'd suggest you look back at your own views rather than casting unconvincing aspersions on others.

Let me put it like this, if the Royal family ceased to exist today, I wouldn't lose any sleep over it. Likewise, I'll sleep fine tonight if they're all healthy and well. Generally I'd rather the monarchy continued, in the same manner as I'd rather England won the next World Cup. If the reality turns out different (more than likely with the latter example) then so be it. If you're looking for someone to goad, then unlucky.
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PostPosted: 10:09 - 01 Jul 2009    Post subject: Reply with quote
Damofo D.O.G. wrote:
Pretty much boils down to one thing though - jealousy.


Er, no. Would I want to live in their fucked up world? Not on your nelly - would you?

Damofo D.O.G. wrote:
You must remember that (granted a long time ago now), their ancestors worked to get to the positions which led to the long legacy which has led to the Royal family being present in the UK now, why is it wrong that they should continue to hold those positions?


Those positions were held through bondage, manipulation, slavery, murder etc etc. You have to remember that they probably fucked over a few million in their quest for supremacy, and as such their possessions are the quivalent to a drug dealers Bentley. It's paradoxical how we are free to condemn the actions of Kim Jong-il and handing power to his son, yet it is merely the same as what happened here for centuries.


Damofo D.O.G. wrote:
I'd rather they be there through birthright than have a power hungry ego manic elected President be the Nation's figurehead.


Yea, that'd be better. Rolling Eyes

Damofo D.O.G. wrote:

He has a point tbh. There are far too many of us kicking about, and a lot of them are utter fuckwits.


Isn't it funny how those that repeat this psychotic anti-human agenda are always the one's that should be spared! Laughing

In your system of beloved monarchy you would most likely be killed off, though I bet you'd probably still defend their actions. Laughing "Gotta keep their monopoly over us somehow!"
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Kris wrote:
In your system of beloved monarchy you would most likely be killed off, though I bet you'd probably still defend their actions. Laughing "Gotta keep their monopoly over us somehow!"


Hang on, we already have a monarchy - I don't think he's dead.
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Hang on, we already have a monarchy - I don't think he's dead.


I meant if the Duke got his sick and twisted wish and came back as a virus.

Fucking pedant Wink

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LukeVFR wrote:
To think Ronaldo will be getting paid £400,000+ a week when his contract gets towards the end and to think he was bought for £80,000,000 just makes you realise how crazy football is.


Are you implying we create a football team composed of Royal family to boost tour tourism appeal?
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