Prince Charles

[ks.234]

The campaign group Republic assert that the full annual cost of the British monarchy to be at least £350,000,000 a year

 

[Le Baron]

And that from only the accounts made public.

 

[Barrymagrec]

Andy`s legal bill is going to add a bit.....

 

[Yank]

I think she'll outlive him.

 

[ks.234]

And that from only the accounts made public.

..and why would accounts not be made public. If the monarchy did actually produce a net benefit, as some people seems to want to claim, why wouldn’t the monarchy want that information publicly available?

 

[Le Baron]

..and why would accounts not be made public. If the monarchy did actually produce a net benefit, as some people seems to want to claim, why wouldn’t the monarchy want that information publicly available?

Aye... there are some things like royal 'investments' in things like Shell and other dubious companies, which are all nicely kept in tax havens and never make it to the public accounts committee.

 

[ks.234]

Aye... there are some things like royal 'investments' in things like Shell and other dubious companies, which are all nicely kept in tax havens and never make it to the public accounts committee.

Yes, the Panama Papers will only be the tip of the iceberg

 

[PsB]

The trouble is that Cromwell and his mates only chopped off Charlie's head. They should have done a bit of ethnic cleansing with the aristocracy en masse. The French were much more thorough.

The French were persistent rather than thorough. It took at least 3 attempts, in view of the bizarre tendency of their most senior elected officials to want to become unelected monarchs.

 

[mansr]

the bizarre tendency of their most senior elected officials to want to become unelected monarchs.

That's hardly uncommon.

 

[Le Baron]

And they succeeded. Let's just take into account that whether or not a nation has a 'royal family' the heads of government and 'captains of industry' all vie to install themselves into positions of aristocracy. The existence of an official 'royal family' is neither here nor there, they often collude anyway. Johnson and his cronies' grip on the state and Macron and his cronies' grip on the state is equal. The existence of her Maj didn't stop the Tories any more or less than no royal family has stopped Macron's ambitions. Or any other state with no monarchy (or with one).

Abolish these parasites now.

 

[PsB]

That's hardly uncommon.

Now you mention it, yes.

It was amusing to see Mitterrand, who’d built a good career in opposition railing at the regal tendencies of De Gaulle’s 5th Republic constitution (“Le coup d’état permanent”) embrace the full scope of presidential powers, and then some, once he finally got elected.

 

[ks.234]

The French were persistent rather than thorough. It took at least 3 attempts, in view of the bizarre tendency of their most senior elected officials to want to become unelected monarchs.

Typical middle class liberals, even in Revolutionary France, one sniff of power and they think they’re royalty

 

[PaulMB]

The French were persistent rather than thorough. It took at least 3 attempts, in view of the bizarre tendency of their most senior elected officials to want to become unelected monarchs.

Yes, a bit like some Roman emperors. Even De Gaulle came close, "La France, c'est moi!"

 

[Rockmeister]

The campaign group Republic assert that the full annual cost of the British monarchy to be at least £350,000,000 a year

Ah yes. Well known for their lack of bias and impartiality.
Must be right then.

 

[ks.234]

Ah yes. Well known for their lack of bias and impartiality.
Must be right then.

Just like Forbes then?

 

[Rockmeister]

not that similar no.

 

[ks.234]

not that similar no.

It was the context of my post if you care to look

 

[tones]

Yes, a bit like some Roman emperors. Even De Gaulle came close, "La France, c'est moi!"

 

[Yank]

 

[PaulMB]

Without the monarchy we could not have had "Downton Abbey." Surely that clinches it?