At an initial cost of £150m, the poor OAP tenant is probably going to have to be re-housed at a further cost to the tax payer even though her modest abode has 775 rooms, including 19 state rooms, 52 royal and guest bedrooms, 188 staff bedrooms and 78 bathrooms. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-33250274 The old bag is absolutely swimming in wealth yet after David Cameron's keynote speech after the credit crunch hit home that "we're all in this together" and "austerity is going to hurt everyone" its not harming the old parasite and and her family. please log in to view this image "Ooh look how tall our free money tree has grown" The French had the right idea what to do with royalty and the aristocracy during their revolution, they should fund themselves or **** off back to Germany.
I'm far from a Royalist but they more than pay for their upkeep with the tourist trade they drive. I think the role has become fairly meaningless in reality and they're just a 'quaint' English tradition that enthralls the Septics and Japanese. There's far worse things in our society to get excited about imo.
How many residents could you get in there if they turned it into an actual old ****as home?? Still be summit for the tourists to look at that
A modern society calls for modernised ways of running the country's "asset's" on a cost effective basis, if they are to be classed as "workers" their salaries should fund **** like their residences getting refurbed, my gripe is not that they get paid but that they don't need to spend those earnings on essentials, those are provided to them for free by the taxpayer. In sharp contrast the newly elected Tory government early last week said that it had a mandate from the British people to further reform the welfare system, they have promised cuts of £12b from the £23b spent at present and will target working tax credit and housing benefit, that's one sure way to make wages lower and to make people homeless, and that's why it's obscene imo that the monarch has to pay **** all for the upkeep of the place calls home for 6 months a year.
I don't think you read the piece properly. The Crown Estate which owns the place on behalf of the State , paid the tax payer a return of £285m last year. Total Welfare spending is circa £112BN btw.
I know that, but the Crown Estate although funded by the tax payer gives nothing back to the government, it exists solely for the benefit and maintenance of the Royal households, after her percentage is taken out the remainder is used if and when necessary and when there's a profit made it gets deducted from the next tax payer hand out to them. It's all conveniently contrived and manipulated so that there's always money available.
The building and the trappings bring in the tourists, you don't actually need the bunch of tax dodging parasites that live in it though mate. Where is the Daily Mail and such with their benefit claim articles though £150m benefit claim is a pretty ****in large one for one family. Pretty sure that 150m quote was totally legit 56p per person is what they cost ye all a year, they would call that good value, I call it forced crowd funding That's without the 150m bonus though.
The crown estate isn't funded by the tax payer at all, it's a profit making property and investment business, that put £285m into the public purse last year. It has the royal households as part of its portfolio. When the last Govt scrapped the civil list, the royal family was given a 15% share of the annual profit as income.
It's time this country became a republic and if the royalty want to be self funded figure heads within it fine.
Anyone who really think they are powerless behind the scenes needs their head banged on something with a sharp corner
Can't really get excited about them one way or the other,tbh. There are many, far bigger problems in the world than a few old monarchs hanging about, imo.
