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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Grizzly on October 30, 2011, 01:01:18 pm

Title: The True cost of the British Monarchy.
Post by: Grizzly on October 30, 2011, 01:01:18 pm

It's quite interesting. It will also be bloody obvious if you did not watch the vid and still reply. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhyYgnhhKFw&feature=relmfu)

Title: Re: The True cost of the British Monarchy.
Post by: FireSpawn on October 30, 2011, 01:52:57 pm

Well ****. I've lived here my whole 19 years of life, and have never been schooled about the monarchy in such a way. It's always been "She lives in that massive house in the middle of London and has her face on currency and stamps."

The thing that concerns me is that I can't tell if I was educated about my royals by a septic tank, or my delightful syrup making cousins.

Title: Re: The True cost of the British Monarchy.
Post by: Cyborg17 on October 30, 2011, 02:35:14 pm

Pretty cool. Being a "yank", this is something I've hardly even heard about before.

Title: Re: The True cost of the British Monarchy.
Post by: Black Wolf on October 30, 2011, 03:34:16 pm

The royals are good for up in Australia as well. We get a head of state for essentially no money whatsoever (well, other than through the governor general), who is powerless to interfere with the goings on in parliament and, given that she's non-elected, can never claim a mandate to change that. That's a good system.

Title: Re: The True cost of the British Monarchy.
Post by: karajorma on October 30, 2011, 06:26:57 pm

I can't watch the vid at the moment so can someone give me the gist of what it claims.

Title: Re: The True cost of the British Monarchy.
Post by: LHN91 on October 30, 2011, 07:07:40 pm

Basic gist: the royals, despite using 40 million pounds a year, bring in a significantly larger number from rental of crown lands, from which the profits are turned over to the state, and offer a healthy boost to British tourism due to various reasons.

Some quick calculations he ran through essentially claimed that taxes and such would likely go UP, not down, if the monarchy was removed. Some things were somewhat glossed over, some assumptions made, but still an interesting piece

Title: Re: The True cost of the British Monarchy.
Post by: Bobboau on October 30, 2011, 09:11:11 pm

DEATH TO NORWAY!

Title: Re: The True cost of the British Monarchy.
Post by: Veers on October 31, 2011, 01:40:58 am

Education..., cool :)

I rather like the royals (Australian here).

Title: Re: The True cost of the British Monarchy.
Post by: Iss Mneur on November 06, 2011, 10:01:00 pm

The video links the full transcript here: http://blog.cgpgrey.com/the-true-cost-of-the-royal-family/

I have to say, I didn't know most of that.