God Save the King

Pak_Doo_Ik said:
My point is and always will be, is it about money that people have an issue with them (hence the 80p a week in tax comment, which regardless of what @BoroMart says, is the assumed cost for the average 20% tax payer), or is it the privilege (which is a completely different argument).
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It’s more than 80p and it’s both the privilege and the cost that is a problem
 
Here is the republic.org findings, all information is cited and is a lowball estimation.

Apparently we haven’t got enough mo et for nurses pay rise but £345m for one family!

You could hire another 7,000 cops or keep bowing and scraping to one family.

www.republic.org.uk

The True Cost of the Royals

www.republic.org.uk www.republic.org.uk
 
I’d prefer to hire 5,000more nurses AND give all existing nurses a 20% pay rise. Leading to saving thousands of lives every year and rewarding hard working people who risked their lives for us.

Other people on this thread would rather not do that and instead reward a billionaire family with all that money instead for erm, cutting some ribbons and saying nothing controversial.

I don’t get some people.
 
The fact is we’d have to have another head of state who’d cost just as much if not more, with far more political ties and the power to wield them. You can’t just wipe the slate clean I’m afraid. The money argument doesn’t consider the alternative.
 
Colin Warnek said:
The fact is we’d have to have another head of state who’d cost just as much if not more, with far more political ties and the power to wield them. You can’t just wipe the slate clean I’m afraid. The money argument doesn’t consider the alternative.
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Nope, wrong again.

Our head of state is far more expensive than every other European head of state. Including several republic presidents. It’s not even close either, it’s a factor of 10x-20x more expensive iirc. There was a paper by republic that showed the costs of heads of state for comparison purposes a few years ago. It’ll be online if you want to find it.

From what I remember it didn’t even take into account the lost inheritance tax of 700m+ of course that’s only once every 30 years on average, but still that works out another 23m+ a year on average in lost revenue by having a monarch that avoids these laws. That avoided inheritance tax in itself is more expensive than every other head of state in Europe iirc.
 
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The Queen's activities and her family are largely funded through the Sovereign Grant, which amounted to £82.2 million) in 2018-19.

No other European Monarchy comes anywhere even close to half of that.

The children of the Danish Queen went to state schools, and yes I’ve seen her out shopping in a department store in Copenhagen, and cycling about in town. She had a job also as set designer on various stage productions or something.
In fact although she’s in her 80’s, still smokes, and started a new a job doing some set thing recently.
Oh, yes and the Monarchy receives the equivalent of about £9.5million
 
Ziggy said:
The Queen's activities and her family are largely funded through the Sovereign Grant, which amounted to £82.2 million) in 2018-19.

No other European Monarchy comes anywhere even close to half of that.

The children of the Danish Queen went to state schools, and yes I’ve seen her out shopping in a department store in Copenhagen, and cycling about in town. She had a job also as set designer on various stage productions or something.
In fact although she’s in her 80’s, still smokes, and started a new a job doing some set thing recently.
Oh, yes and the Monarchy receives the equivalent of about £9.5million
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That about covers the population size difference and respective wealth of UK and Denmark though doesn’t it. Proportionality and perspective is key.
 
Colin Warnek said:
That about covers the population size difference and respective wealth of UK and Denmark though doesn’t it. Proportionality and perspective is key.
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Is the monarchies workload dependant on population? Or are we saying their income is based purely on how many people they can fleece?
 
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