The Queen has been awarded a 66% pay rise to fund a £369m 10-year refit of Buckingham Palace designed to future-proof the ageing building, it has been announced.
Theresa May, Philip Hammond and the Queen’s keeper of the privy purse, Sir Alan Reid, who are the royal trustees, agreed that the temporary pay increase was the best way to pay for urgent repairs.
The major refit, which has been described as essential, will see miles of ageing cables, lead pipes, electrical wiring and boilers replaced, some for the first time in 60 years. Officials said an independent, specialist report had concluded that without urgent work “there is a risk of serious damage to the palace and the precious royal collection items it houses from, amongst other scenarios, fire and water damage”.
The money will come from a 66% increase in the sovereign grant – the funding formula under which the Queen normally receives 15% of the annual profit from the crown estate. She will now receive 25% for the 10 years the work is taking place. When it is finished in 2027, the grant should be returned to 15%, the royal trustees said.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/nov/18/buckingham-palace-to-undergo-370m-refurbishment
I dont really have a bone to pick with this but I am curious as to what the locals think. How popular is the monarchy in the UK? Are they a cash drain or does the income they generate for the country more than make up for their expenses?
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/nov/18/buckingham-palace-to-undergo-370m-refurbishment
I dont really have a bone to pick with this but I am curious as to what the locals think. How popular is the monarchy in the UK? Are they a cash drain or does the income they generate for the country more than make up for their expenses?
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/nov/18/buckingham-palace-to-undergo-370m-refurbishment
I dont really have a bone to pick with this but I am curious as to what the locals think. How popular is the monarchy in the UK? Are they a cash drain or does the income they generate for the country more than make up for their expenses?
Wait til they finally decide to pay for maintenance on Westminster (where Parliament is)... the estimate there is already past the billion pounds.
I dont really have a bone to pick with this but I am curious as to what the locals think. How popular is the monarchy in the UK? Are they a cash drain or does the income they generate for the country more than make up for their expenses?
Which still has Victoria plumbing... and roof, and heating..
~ what the locals think. How popular is the monarchy in the UK? Are they a cash drain or does the income they generate for the country more than make up for their expenses?
Value of the Royal Family report worked out a bonus of around £44 billion to the UK economy.
The alternatives are a Presidency system that could give us a Donald Trump / Francois Mitterrand / Joachim Gauck (who?) / Heinz Fischer / Putin so I'm pretty happy with a Queen.
~ Plenty of good Presidents
~ and bad Monarchs
Name any?
The last 3 we have or had were pretty good.
I don't get this "we could have *insert name of bad President*" as an argument.
Plenty of good Presidents and bad Monarchs with which to make the opposite argument. At least you can get rid of a bad President.
Lincoln, Mandela, Ghandi, Roosevelt of the top of my head.
Plenty more.
Edward VIII had to abdicate and was a Nazi sympathiser.
~ And don't get me started on the Saudi royal family.
I suspect there are dissenting voices. But on average I always had the feeling that the British liked the Throne, even when the complain. And that is well invested money, so why should they rebel?
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/nov/18/buckingham-palace-to-undergo-370m-refurbishment
I dont really have a bone to pick with this but I am curious as to what the locals think. How popular is the monarchy in the UK? Are they a cash drain or does the income they generate for the country more than make up for their expenses?
Ghandi never became President but I was focusing on American Presidents rather than any other nationality, simply because I don't expect many Americans to consider any other leaders or peoples as equal or worthy. I've just been reading another DP thread trying to convince me that non whites are subhuman but anyhow, 90% of Americans will still view Mandela as a terrorist, less so with Ghandi but as I say, he was never President.
American ones please. Lincoln - what made him great is disputed. His reasons for what he did were and are disputed and even then, despite Lincoln, it took until the 1960's for a President for all Americans, not just the white ones.
He didn't abdicate from his own wishes, it also goes to show that bad royalty can be forced out.
Not really bothered about Presidents and Royalty from outside the remit of the US and UK.
The attached figures are 6 years old, but according to the report, the UK does pretty good business off the backs of the royals:
Monarchy attracts £500 million a year from overseas tourists - Telegraph
If the UK became a republic it would almost certainly not adopt the US model of Presidency, so I will name good non-US Presidents if I want.
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