How the British Royal Family earns YOU £2.60 every year

Let's not forget how much getting rid of them would cost though - think of all the costs of reprinting anything that refers to the current royal family - for example having to change the look of the currency and changing any company called 'The Royal...'. Plus all of the people who have jobs that are linked explicitly to the Royals (and I'm talking ordinary, non-royal people)

The London Olympics will cost a lot more than £20 million..?

Are you seriously suggesting that an argument for preserving the Monarchy is that getting rid of it is just too much bother?

So having a political institution that is sexiest, anti catholic and undemocratic because it generates profit for a nation is a reason to keep the status quo? and we wonder why people support backward regimes so easily. ''They bring us food, water and shelter!'' You can't put a price on democracy, fairness and justice.

The right to have the highest office of the land selected by the citizens it is suppose to represent. You know maybe it's about trying to apply the same principle you and I must face when competing for a job? perhaps it comes down to the easier to grasp principle of the best man for the job? are we not all equal? do we not want to fully embrace equality of opportunity?

The right to aspire to the highest possible station in the Land, where greatness is determined by ability and talent and not by one's own birth.

So, you hate the Monarchy do you.

This is the BEST YouTube video I've seen on the subject. I was on the fence, now I'm a Royalist

All this "my taxpayers money spent on this..." banality (usually from people who pay little of any meaningful tax".

This video illustrates the way in which the deal between Parliament and the Crown Estates earns every person in the UK at LEAST £2.60, nevermind the £0.65p we supposedly pay each every year for the upkeep of the institution.

JUST WATCH IT.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhyYgnhhKFw&feature=relmfu

Just because it isn't catholic, it doesn't mean that it is anti-catholic. Also, how is it sexist?
And what is democracy, fairness and justice to do with anything?
Its the government that hold the power and it's the government that we democratically elect.

You seem to be proposing that every person must be democratically elected for their job. We only need to elect those who hold the power.
The royal family have little to no say in how the country is actually ruled.


There is no "right" to have the highest office of the land.
There is also no "best man for the job", the royal family perform a plethora of duties, many of which cannot just be performed by a single person. To do what the royal family do, you must be brought up in a specific way.

Just because it isn't catholic, it doesn't mean that it is anti-catholic

Also, how is it sexist?

Its the government that hold the power and it's the government that we democratically elect.

You seem to be proposing that every person must be democratically elected for their job

There is also no "best man for the job", the royal family perform a plethora of duties, many of which cannot just be performed by a single person. To do what the royal family do, you must be brought up in a specific way

Here I go again, one more time!.

Thanks to the Protestant reformation no British monarch may marry a catholic. Our head of state as of now, can never be of catholic faith. The head of state is a job and this job is denied to 8.87 % of the nation (5,264,000 people according to figures). That my friend is what we call religious discrimination 101.

If Kate and William have a daughter first and then a son after. The daughter is denied inheriting the throne from her dad (William) and her brother will become king. Simply because he is a boy. That my friend is what we call gender discrimination 101.

Fail. The house of Lords is not elected by us and neither is the prime minister. The central government is cherry picked by the party leaders and constantly changed year after year. Did you have any say on who became the Chancellor? and we don't vote for the prime minister we vote for the party. Let me repeat, half of our parliament is not elected at all by the citizens.

No I am not. Do you have any idea of what the function of a head of state is? it can be either symbolic or have power. But it is fundamentally mean't to be the representation of a nation and its citizens. You don't think the best way for a person to argue he or she legitimately represents a body of people, to be chosen by the said group of people? Imagine being in a group of your friends. How would you want to pick who represents your friends to other people? By that person's son or by you all selecting the best person? Get it now?

What the hell? are you joking? I don't think you even bother to understand peoples arguments. You actually can't be bothered to learn that there are a plethora of countries like France, Germany, USA who all have operated well without a Royal family to operate. You actually think Britain needs Princess Beatrice Elizabeth Mary of York, Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge or Prince Harry of Wales to function?

Wait so you actually think Princess Beatrice Elizabeth Mary of York performs duties no other British person can do? what like hold parties, raise funds or wave on stake occasions?. No seriously what does she do you think no one in a population of 60 million cannot do? so you got MP's running the country. You got business woman and men in charge of multi million pound companies. But Princess Beatrice Elizabeth Mary of York, for example, has what special that no one has again?

Lastly, how do you know she is better at her 'job' (what the heck IS her job?) than anyone else? no one else has had a chance to compete. You can't argue some one is best at their job if you've not had anyone to compete it too!

WHAT IS HER JOB?

Go ahead and aspire to be the prime minister. Nobody is stopping you.

Nobody's game for getting rid of it though, CAN'T you see that's the problem you have?

If the public wanted rid, do you think a few beefeaters are stopping the population from overthrowing them?

They're in place, with high regard and respect, because they have the country's consent, and affection. Particularly the Queen and the newly weds, i.e. the past and the future of the monarchy.

On the telly the other night someone said: recent polls show 11% are republicans, the debate is over.