Monarchy cost tax payers £35.7 million in the last year

I've just been out and bought an inflatable ET doll for Diana's Shrine. I plan to drop it off there when i'm down in London.

 

I'd hate to be as angry as some people on here

live and let live is my motto

 

You're the angriest **** on the Indo thread

 

I'm satisfied with my beel levels.

There was a guy got out his car the other night in EK because a bus was blocking him off on purpose. He was trying to skip everyone at roadworks and jump in later He got out his car, shouted at the bus driver and then kicked the bus a couple of times After that, nobody let him back in and he ended up further back than where he was.

 

Nev at his happiest

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I love doing that. Never let in any **** who thinks they're a queue jumping smart arse (which I am)

 

I always look right at them and put on a massive ****-eating grin. That does their tits in.

 

The german inbred ****s should pay the bedroom tax for their palaces after all, they're the biggest dole scrounging ****s out there, and sour faced Liz lives in the biggest council house. ****s the lot of em

 

I agree.

I'm surprised no **** on this thread has come up with the "tourism" defence of the monarchy. Or mibby there is no **** left daft enough to even raise it.

 

It is truly a spasticated defence, France has far more tourists and they took their Royals nappers off centuries ago.

 

I suppose they do bring a lot of tourists to the country but still.

 

It's a ludicrous defence but you can hardly use France as a comparison. It's a far nicer country with much better people in it and better weather so of course they'll have more tourists.

 

Scotland, and Edinburgh especially, attract a lot of tourists but they come to see the likes of Holyrood Palace and the Royal Yacht Britannia. If the entire Royal Family were wiped out in a mysterious mass poisoning tomorrow I doubt the tourists would stop coming.

 

I prefer the English, and London to Paris.

 

Exactly. The edifices remain and the tourists will still come to look with or without a monarchy.

Tourists seem to like nice looking buildings. No ma cup o' tea but that's besides the point.

 

We have health tourists, they don't come to see the Saxe Coburg Gothas big council houses just a set of new teeth and a tit job

 

You're a miserable, vally munching **** though.

 

I'm a happy go lucky kinda guy, the Anglos have a sense of humour, the Frogs are surly ****s by and large.

 

The frogs also have far nicer places to go look at.

Buckingham Palace vs a lower noble Château

 

Over 80% of Britons(8) believe that the royal family provides “a significant amount of revenue for Britain through tourism”

but there is little evidence for it.Chester Zoo, Stonehenge and the Roman Baths (below) are all more successful tourist attractions thanWindsor Castle, the only occupied royal residence to attract visitors in large numbers. If it was included in the Association of Leading Visitor Attractions (ALVA) list of top attractions it would come in at number 24.(9)

8.http://yougov.co.uk/news/2012/05/30/britains-jubilee-blues



9.http://republic.org.uk/what-we-want/monarchy-myth-buster/its-good-tourism