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Anybody who dismisses the relevance of the Royal family to our tourism industry is either just a bit simple or in denial...

Many a tourist has stood outside Buckingham Palace with the misplaced hope of a glimpse of a Royal ...

Heritage is a huge part of our tourism attraction to the rest of the world ...

I'm not a Royalist... but I am a realist ... there will be thousands of tourists coming to the UK solely to witness the state funeral ... the republicans will hate that ... but it doesn't make it less true.
 
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brb said:
The work shy millennials don't do farm work anymore. I heard a while back, that Thanet Earth will not be planting tomatoes this winter, meaning come Spring the country will suffer a shortage.

I thought everyone had gas bills to pay. <whistle>
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Not when they can blame a Royal Death, a Tory Government and Brexit for the increase in fuel caused. by an illegal invasion by Russia, most of them think they would be better of if we were ruled by Russia anyway

As the old Yorkshire saying goes "You can't educate Pork"
 
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FosseFilberto said:
Anybody who dismisses the relevance of the Royal family to our tourism industry is either just a bit simple or in denial...

Many a tourist has stood outside Buckingham Palace with the misplaced hope of a glimpse of a Royal ...

Heritage is a huge part of our tourism attraction to the rest of the world ...

I'm not a Royalist... but I am a realist ... there will be thousands of tourists coming to the UK solely to witness the state funeral ... the republicans will hate that ... but it doesn't make it less true.
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That bolded bit, should get a few bites. <laugh>
 
duggie2000 said:
Not when they can blame a Royal Death, a Tory Government and Brexit for the increase in fuel caused. by an illegal invasion by Russia, most of them think they would be better of if we were ruled by Russia anyway

As the old Yorkshire saying goes "You can't educate Pork"
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Everytime I hear the word pork now, I think of Truss at the pork markets. :cheesy:
 
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duggie2000 said:
Not when they can blame a Royal Death, a Tory Government and Brexit for the increase in fuel caused. by an illegal invasion by Russia, most of them think they would be better of if we were ruled by Russia anyway

As the old Yorkshire saying goes "You can't educate Pork"
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As one of the few millennials on the thread I blame the pound tanking against the dollar to its lowest level in my lifetime more than any of those.
 
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Sucky said:
I dont buy the whole tourist attraction argument to keeping the blue bloods.

Its not like anyone actually fukin sees any of them when they come to London<laugh><doh> they come to see the palaces and the towers and jewellery. That tourist money argument is the last desperate angle flagshaggers like saff have left to keep the very expensive and irrelevant royals (as a family) as shown above.

In fact if the royals were no more wed make more off the palaces and jewels and other royal related tourist ****e they come to see.

This time the flags got in the way of Saff's usually sound financial head im afraid.
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Versailles actually has more tourists a year than any royal palace/castle/estate in the UK. The tourism thing is just a myth.
 
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Kalman said:
Versailles actually has more tourists a year than any royal palace/castle/estate in the UK. The tourism thing is just a myth.
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That may be something to do with the turnstiles at Buckingham Palace not working properly... or Liverpool fans with fake tickets climbing over the railings rather than queuing in an orderly fashion ... same old, same old <laugh>

... and I'm sure the lure of Versailles has nothing to do with it being the most celebrated residence of the French 'Sun King' <whistle>
 
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Kalman said:
Versailles actually has more tourists a year than any royal palace/castle/estate in the UK. The tourism thing is just a myth.
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I think so, or at least how important the royals are in bringing those tourists in. Who imo would come anyway, charge em a ton to walk round the palace, thousands a day.
 
FosseFilberto said:
That may be something to do with the turnstiles at Buckingham Palace not working properly... or Liverpool fans with fake tickets climbing over the railings rather than queuing in an orderly fashion ... same old, same old <laugh>

... and I'm sure the lure of Versailles has nothing to do with it being the most celebrated residence of the French 'Sun King' <whistle>
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The tourists are mostly French asking themselves how the fu ck did we get that so wrong
 
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Kalman said:
Versailles actually has more tourists a year than any royal palace/castle/estate in the UK. The tourism thing is just a myth.
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FosseFilberto said:
That may be something to do with the turnstiles at Buckingham Palace not working properly... or Liverpool fans with fake tickets climbing over the railings rather than queuing in an orderly fashion ... same old, same old <laugh>

... and I'm sure the lure of Versailles has nothing to do with it being the most celebrated residence of the French 'Sun King' <whistle>
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The palace of Versailles. How poignant that should be the example - the place that the impoverished working class stormed to capture the royals and bring in the mighty republic. Yet millions flock there every year.

I have another. I was teaching about the Taj Mahal. Millions go there every year too. It was built as a tomb for a dead queen. Now there's an idea for Buck Palace on the 19th. And once it's all over, I bet plenty would come every year to take a butchers at that <whistle>
 
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Kalman said:
It’s almost like there’s different types of republics. Some have an executive presidency (USA), some share executive power between head of state and head of government/legislature (France), some have a ceremonial president with zero executive power (Ireland, Poland) and some don’t have a head of state at all (Switzerland).

All of the above are still a more mature form of state than having a head of state based on which minge they fell out of.
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This is exactly it. <ok>. Too many people saying "but we don't want Trump". Fine, give the Presidency very minimal powers (or none at all, or don't have a President). The royal family, or someone facilitating what they do, is not needed. There's no need for a Royal or a President.

There's no need to drastically change anything. The royal family has very little power or function anyway.
 
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