The Royal Family! Fantastic value.
28 June 2006, 02:00 PM
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The Royal Family! Fantastic value.
Last year, the Queen cost less than her European counterparts
The Queen and the Royal Family cost the UK taxpayer £37.4m in the last financial year, her financial public accounts reveal.
The cost, equivalent to 62p per person in the UK, rose 4.2% over the previous year, accountants said.
The increase was partly blamed on extra security vetting undertaken at Buckingham Palace.
It followed a national newspaper exposure when a reporter obtained a job as a footman there.
Royal Public Finances summary [164kb]
Freedom of information inquiries and the cost of a number of long-haul overseas visits by members of the Royal Family, also contributed to the rise.
Travel costs increased by 10% to £5.5 million.
62p would buy you a ticket for one minute of England's game against Portugal on Saturday.
Chip
The Queen and the Royal Family cost the UK taxpayer £37.4m in the last financial year, her financial public accounts reveal.
The cost, equivalent to 62p per person in the UK, rose 4.2% over the previous year, accountants said.
The increase was partly blamed on extra security vetting undertaken at Buckingham Palace.
It followed a national newspaper exposure when a reporter obtained a job as a footman there.
Royal Public Finances summary [164kb]
Freedom of information inquiries and the cost of a number of long-haul overseas visits by members of the Royal Family, also contributed to the rise.
Travel costs increased by 10% to £5.5 million.
62p would buy you a ticket for one minute of England's game against Portugal on Saturday.
Chip
28 June 2006, 02:06 PM
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Originally Posted by lightning101
You could put another 1600-2000 police officers on the street or nurses in hospitals for the same amount for a year 
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28 June 2006, 02:10 PM
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Originally Posted by lightning101
You could put another 1600-2000 police officers on the street or nurses in hospitals for the same amount for a year
28 June 2006, 02:11 PM
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Originally Posted by DCI Gene Hunt
She's an asset to this country..... "Long live the Queen....." 
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28 June 2006, 02:12 PM
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She spends most of her time living up the road from me anyway, she's not daft. I just can't work out what it is she does these days 
28 June 2006, 02:13 PM
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Originally Posted by lightning101
That's not very likely given her age
28 June 2006, 02:17 PM
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28 June 2006, 02:17 PM
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Justice:
The Queen can, on ministerial advice, pardon or show mercy to those convicted of crimes. In law the Queen as a private person can do no wrong: she is immune from civil or criminal proceedings and cannot be sued in courts of law. This immunity is not shared by other members of the royal family.
The Queen can, on ministerial advice, pardon or show mercy to those convicted of crimes. In law the Queen as a private person can do no wrong: she is immune from civil or criminal proceedings and cannot be sued in courts of law. This immunity is not shared by other members of the royal family.
28 June 2006, 02:31 PM
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Originally Posted by Chip
A lot more than we'll ever do.
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28 June 2006, 02:33 PM
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Originally Posted by Chip
Think you need to look at the bigger picture here. The income from tourism alone far outweighs the amount the queen recieves to run the royal household which would still need financing whether we had a monarch or not.
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28 June 2006, 03:03 PM
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The Queen and all the senior Royals do a lot of good work. Having been to a couple of her garden parties at the palace and after seeing my mother being honoured by her last year i've learnt a lot more about just how much work the Queen does - it's a lot, far far from an easy life. Having done it now for 50 years (a normal persons working life is what, 40 years ish?) she deserves all our respect
28 June 2006, 04:18 PM
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Originally Posted by lightning101
Otherwise we'd be paying the goverment to pay the queen
p.s. don't forget the wine
oh and the roads, well maybe not the roads...
28 June 2006, 05:07 PM
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Another vote for the queen !
Cant wait for William to become King !!!
The royal family are now moving with the times, thats thanks for the likes of Diana and the Queen Mother.
Im flying the flag for the Royals
Cant wait for William to become King !!!
The royal family are now moving with the times, thats thanks for the likes of Diana and the Queen Mother.
Im flying the flag for the Royals
28 June 2006, 05:15 PM
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Originally Posted by Spoon
That's a shít load of cardboard boxes required and unnecessary voilence all in one statement.
Took me a second to realise what the **** you were on about.
28 June 2006, 05:41 PM
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I think its a great investment by the taxpayer as the Americans and people from Asia etc travel far and wide from errr America and Asia to see her, thrusting many sterlings into our Labour Party demoralised economy...
God save our splendid Queen
Long live our smashing Queen
God save our Queen
(It's just a pity she doesnt look like Queenie from Blackadder though
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God save our splendid Queen
Long live our smashing Queen
God save our Queen
(It's just a pity she doesnt look like Queenie from Blackadder though
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