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This question is not meant to malign anybody. Just curious. Are the majority of the people in the UK in favor of supporting the Royal Family with tax dollars?
This question is not meant to malign anybody. Just curious. Are the majority of the people in the UK in favor of supporting the Royal Family with tax dollars?
Surley youSure if you guys want to send your dollars over here to support them that will be fine, in the meantime we will just use the pound.
Brian
I just love this video about the Royal family : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhyYgnhhKFw
God save the Queen !
Lib,As an American, I don't have a dog in this hunt, but I think they should have been tossed out on their respective bums a long time ago.
I know they bring in the tourists. How about a zoo instead (complete with elephants)?
You're probably right, but I'm sick and tired hearing about the RF and their petty little scandals and looking at their horse faces and how they're actually broke and the roof of the palace needs replacing. The Queen has some class but really, haven't they outlived their usefulness? Would people stop going to England if these ceremonial jokers were turned out? They'd still have Stonehenge and Abbey Road studios.Lib,
Your thinking like a Yankee. That's why we kick UK out of US, we didn't want a king over us, but these post they are putting up a financial picture. As I understanding the Royal F. have only ceremonial duties, and no ruling power. If the governments stops giving themRF money the government looses a lot of money. Supposedly Royal family could make more money if they took over counrol of there own land. Did I get it right UK?
did you ever offer them $24.00worth of trinket for there land?
While I'm here learning do I remember my history correct. UK is made up of England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland. Is that correct?
I am not a citizen of UK, so I have not been fortunate to study in UK schools, but I think it should be highlighted. After all English colonization, and tradition is a great history, I don't think anyone would want to miss out on that. Unless they hate history or stories.Very interesting! Do you think the average UK citizen have knowledge of this. Is it taught in schools.
Scotland, England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Ireland is now Republic, I think that was during somewhere around 1920's. Yes, the Queen is only the Head of the State, she cannot elect PM's or do anything to put people under the axe. She is just there, putting the royal crest on the bills passed by the Government (which by the way; is also elected by the people through general elections. Not the crown). She has to remain politically neutral !While I'm here learning do I remember my history correct. UK is made up of England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland. Is that correct?
Sure, why not Zoo's, but they do not make the news that often. As you have said in your next post. RF make the news,How about a zoo instead (complete with elephants)?
I just love this video about the Royal family : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhyYgnhhKFw
God save the Queen !
On 4 April 1660, Charles II issued the Declaration of Breda, in which he made several promises in relation to the reclamation of the crown of England. Monck organised the Convention Parliament, which met for the first time on 25 April. On 8 May it proclaimed that King Charles II had been the lawful monarch since the execution of Charles I on 30 January 1649.[7] "Constitutionally, it was as if the last nineteen years had never happened."
In Britain, the hereditary revenues of Crown lands provided income for the monarch until the start of the reign of George III when the Crown Estate was surrendered to the Parliament of Great Britain in return for a fixed civil list payment – the monarch retains the income from the Duchy of Lancaster.
The American Revolution was a political upheaval, 1765–1783, as the Thirteen American Colonies broke from the British Empire and formed the independent nation, the United States of America. Starting in 1765 the Americans rejected the authority of Parliament to tax them without elected representation; protests escalated as in the Boston Tea Party of 1773, and the British imposed punitive laws on Massachusetts in 1774. In 1774 the Patriots suppressed the Loyalists and expelled all royal officials. Each colony now had a new government that took control. The British responded by sending combat troops to re-establish royal control. Through the Second Continental Congress, the Patriots fought the British in the American Revolutionary War 1775–83.
Dick I thought that the excuse for the revolution was taxes, didn't know it was merely anti monarchist.
Brian
At least we can get rid of our 1st families.If Libre is going to adopt his usual offensive approach then I would say that I would rather have Phil and Liz as our number one family than the Clintons or the Bushes, I've already mentioned Cherie Blair so you needn't come back on our PMs .
Brian
At least we can get rid of our 1st families.
At least they have to move out at least every 8 years.
At least they are not monarchs.
At least they're accountable to the people.
Offensive approach?
Don't get me started.
You had me apologizing to you the last time we tangled.
How often has THAT happened on this forum?
And I wasn't even wrong.
I'm TOO damned nice.
That's my problem.
Offensive approach?
Don't get me started.
You had me apologizing to you the last time we tangled.
How often has THAT happened on this forum?
And I wasn't even wrong.
I'm TOO damned nice.
That's my problem.
This forum is a place to post opinions.You have an aggressive style of writing, you say that you don't have a dog in this hunt and then write offensively about the Royal Family, I am not a royalist but see no need to write "their horse faces"
Brian