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Sir Cheshire Ben said:
& a £2.8m rise for her Majesty next year.

Magical Money Tree.
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Queen's worth every penny financially. She's our Brand and you couldn't buy the opportunities she provides the country. It's not even close the value for money she is.

However that's nothing to do with the democratic issue of having a royal family. Any arguments about how daft it is having an unelected head of state on democratic grounds can't be argued with. But we don't lose money from them.
 
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Walter Sobchak said:
Queen's worth every penny financially. She's our Brand and you couldn't buy the opportunities she provides the country. It's not even close the value for money she is.

However that's nothing to do with the democratic issue of having a royal family. Any arguments about how daft it is having an unelected head of state on democratic grounds can't be argued with. But we don't lose money from them.
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I mean morally it's abhorrent, but as long as the Yanks and Japanese still come...
 
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Walter Sobchak said:
Queen's worth every penny financially.
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Ironically the only idea from Labour that floats my boat...is the one about ending the monarchy and putting down the groundwork to make us a republic with a democratically chosen head of state, rather than one that is imposed...
 
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Obadiah said:
City Independent and quite often over the years. Didn't you say the power stations were filled with British workers on good money that the industry didn't need to employ?
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I said that on privatisation the number of staff at the power stations fell from around 1500 to 500 - health and safety improved and the costs halved because they weren't cross subsidising the railways and British Coal any more - finally the uk could compete with foreign competition rather than being the lame man of Europe because of the unions and years of badly run nationalised industries
 
Duffens_Briefs said:
Ironically the only idea from Labour that floats my boat...is the one about ending the monarchy and putting down the groundwork to make us a republic with a democratically chosen head of state, rather than one that is imposed...
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The only thing is I don't like the idea of having politically active head of states. It would be good to have something where the whole country can support them and not half of it hating them.
 
Duffens_Briefs said:
Ironically the only idea from Labour that floats my boat...is the one about ending the monarchy and putting down the groundwork to make us a republic with a democratically chosen head of state, rather than one that is imposed...
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So in theory we could end up with a TRUMP like character with a crown? The monarchy are one of the country's biggest assets because of the history! A republic my arse!!
 
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Sir Cheshire Ben said:
We had the slowest growing economy of the G7 group of advanced economies in the first 3 months of this year (0.2%) compared to Canada's 0.9%.

Canada's policies are as good as identical as to what the Labour Party Manifesto details.
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Canada didn't just vote Brexit. Canada doesn't have the majority of businesses and individuals being cautious with their finances. A better comparison would be to look at our growth pre Brexit.
 
charon-the-ferryman said:
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I said that on privatisation the number of staff at the power stations fell from around 1500 to 500 - health and safety improved and the costs halved because they weren't cross subsidising the railways and British Coal any more - finally the uk could compete with foreign competition rather than being the lame man of Europe because of the unions and years of badly run nationalised industries
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I see you agree I quoted you correctly.

1,000 jobs at decent wages lost plus the knock on effects for British Coal and British Rail whilst the power industry still made profits to pay into the Exchequer.
 
Obadiah said:
I see you agree I quoted you correctly.

1,000 jobs at decent wages lost plus the knock on effects for British Coal and British Rail whilst the power industry still made profits to pay into the Exchequer.
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all paid for by industry and you and I with massive energy bills
 
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