Quote: DaButt @ January 16 2012, 3:05 PM GMTI've always heard that the UK makes more money off the use of the monarch's land than they spend on him/her.
No expert but what belongs to the crown/state and is privately owned by the Saxe Coburg/Windsors has been a fairly flexible accountancy practice.
Quote: DaButt @ January 16 2012, 3:05 PM GMTI've always heard that the UK makes more money off the use of the monarch's land than they spend on him/her.
Plus all the trade deals with the Middle East. Royal Families of whatever nationality like to mix with their own kind.
But it looks like there will be no public funds available for the Royal Yacht, so that will leave two options -
1. It gets sponsored by Phones 4 U or Compare The Market.com, replete with gaudy advertising and guards dressed up as meerkats.
or more likely -
2. An Arab or Russian will 'donate' the yacht in exchange for all sorts of dodgy under the table financial / political crap that will cost us more in the long run then just buying a boat.
Quote: Renegade Carpark @ January 16 2012, 3:01 PM GMTAnother short sighted view. After you behead her, why would the tourists come back the following year? I mean, aside from brilliant West End karaokes like Rock of Ages and Mama Mia.
Behead a royal every year. They could put it on just before Jules' Hootenanny.
Quote: roscoff @ January 16 2012, 4:02 PM GMTBehead a royal every year. They could put it on just before Jules' Hootenanny.
Hmm, so we'd need to increase the number of Royals every year to meet demand. Won't this cost us more in the long run? You haven't thought this through.
Quote: DaButt @ January 16 2012, 3:05 PM GMTI've always heard that the UK makes more money off the use of the monarch's land than they spend on him/her.
I am not sure how much the Duchy of Lnacaster actually brings in to the Exchequer, but personally I have a problem with hereditary aristocrats owning vast swathes of Britain based on the land appropriation of their feudal forbears.
Quote: Renegade Carpark @ January 16 2012, 4:10 PM GMTHmm, so we'd need to increase the number of Royals every year to meet demand. Won't this cost us more in the long run? You haven't thought this through.
I think cloning is the way forward. Or failing that using the princesses of York as brood mares.
Quote: Stylee TingTing @ January 16 2012, 2:47 PM GMTWho knows what we could achieve without them? We've never had the chance to find out.
Yeah we have, chap called Cromwell a few hundred years ago.
We gave it up as a bad job & re-instated Royalty.
Quote: sootyj @ January 16 2012, 3:02 PM GMTGiving the queen an abandoned nuclear missile sub instead of a yacht,
Oi that was my idea, more-or-less.
Quote: billwill @ January 16 2012, 6:10 PM GMTYeah we have, chap called Cromwell a few hundred years ago.
We gave it up as a bad job & re-instated Royalty.
We? You're older than you look Bill.
Quote: Renegade Carpark @ January 16 2012, 3:24 PM GMTPlus all the trade deals with the Middle East. Royal Families of whatever nationality like to mix with their own kind.
But it looks like there will be no public funds available for the Royal Yacht, so that will leave two options -
1. It gets sponsored by Phones 4 U or Compare The Market.com, replete with gaudy advertising and guards dressed up as meerkats.
or more likely -
2. An Arab or Russian will 'donate' the yacht in exchange for all sorts of dodgy under the table financial / political crap that will cost us more in the long run then just buying a boat.
You and Dave are of a mind RC.
Quote: Oldrocker @ January 16 2012, 8:58 PM GMTYou and Dave are of a mind RC.
Mr. Cameron and I are looking forward to launching HMY Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 this coming June.
I thought it was going to be HMY Emirates ?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jan/17/abu-qatada-jordan-britain-cannot
'Britain cannot deport Abu Qatada to Jordan, European judges rule'
Hmm, so many issues. Views please!
I'd say you've either got laws or you don't.
Sensibly the UK rejects all evidence gathered under torture. If nothing else it's inherently unreliable.
So he should stay. If he breaks the law here he should face the courts same as anywhere else.
The only 2 kind of countries that would welcome him are those that would torture him. And those that would laud him as a hero.
Quote: AJGO @ January 17 2012, 10:52 AM GMThttp://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jan/17/abu-qatada-jordan-britain-cannot
'Britain cannot deport Abu Qatada to Jordan, European judges rule'
Hmm, so many issues. Views please!
I'm assuming he's in jail in this country and not wandering about cursing infidels and plotting our destruction.
'80p! For a Mars Bar! A fatwah on you! A fatwah on you and your multiplex cinema!'
Quote: Renegade Carpark @ January 17 2012, 11:37 AM GMTMars Bar
Has anyone here had a deep-fried Mars Bar? I've not, but I've heard that sneering aside, it's an unusually interesting thing to try.
Quote: Nogget @ January 17 2012, 1:44 PM GMTHas anyone here had a deep-fried Mars Bar? I've not, but I've heard that sneering aside, it's an unusually interesting thing to try.
I imagine it would taste like a sausage in batter, but instead of sausage, you get melted chocolate and caramel.
