The Monarchy Good or bad

Are the royals good for Britain ,or are they now an outdated idea
Spending taxpayers money? or bringing in money for business?
Good or Bad
You decide!

 

Off with their heads................

 

There was me thinking you would be pro monarchy

 

Outdated - they are just a wealthy family whose wealth has been created by this country. Just a bunch of leeches that should sling their hooks back to Germany.....

 

If the monarchy went, would that mean the end of the Commonwealth Games? It's the only major international sporting event (apart from the Island Games) where our athletes don't have to try to gain places in the Britsh team.

Also, if you were the head of a charity and wanted a patron to enhance your profile, which would you go for - a member of royalty or an MP?

 

Good thing, they generate ALOT of tourist money and we would just end paying for the upkeep off the palaces etc anyway.

Not sure about the german comment above seems about sixty years out of date!

 

Norway- does norway still have a monarchy or am i confusing it with sweden?

 

That sort of thing has no place in a reasonable government.

 

Roo norway still has King Harald!! Think sweden still have a monarchy figurehead as well!
IlDuce How many " reasonable" governments do you know! The ones I know are professional liars!

 

60 years? Keep going, those German ponces have been living off this country for over 100 years...

 

Agreed, Norway. But in a perfect government, I certainly wouldn't want arbitrary 'royal' families having statutory powers!

Amount of fuss about this wedding is pathetic. I'm betting that in your local newsagents, the Norwegian version of 'Hello' magazine has Will and Kate on the front page?

 

You know what Duce,you are dead on ,it is still called Hello magazine and it does! I,m flying into London that friday ready for the qpr game, and it is shutting down stations that I need ! due to the wedding security operation

 

Couldn't give a monkey's one way or the other. Wouldn't know Kate wossename if I fell over her in Tescos. Meh.

 

I'd fall over her in Tesco.

 

and be underneath her before she hit the deck eh!

 

I mean it would be rude not to cushion her fall. She'd probably need some post traumatic stress relief too, and you can't refuse that to a damsel in distress.

 

Totally understand

 

On the one hand, I'm being told that "I have to do it tough, we're all in this together" and on the other I'm expected to contribute to the obscene cost of somebody else's wedding without a whimper.

I'm not privy to facts and figures on how having a royal family is/isn't beneficial to the country - but I simply consider them to be an anachronism, unneccessary and probably an overly expensive luxury. I can't see them doing it tough and didn't see them contribute to my wedding either

Time to sell them off to the Yanks I say.

 

although you might get an invite to the wedding which would get in the way of some footy!

 

As someone from an entirly different culture I think the queen is good. The large royal family perhaps is not. The queen and here palaces and castles make a lot of money for the country. I am sure that all the tax your government takes from tourists and people employed as a result is much more than the royal family is paid.
When I go to Frakkland Þýskaland or Ítalía I do not go to the presidents house to have a look. In England Holland and other countries with a royal family I would go to see their palaces.