I used that part because it neatly segued into starting to answer his previous post about why/what my opposition to the RF was based on. As I said - would require some seriously long replies in the main, but I could at least offer one very serious example that virtually nobody knows about precisely because it *doesn’t get reported*. Remember that for context, on more than one occasion I’d been accused of opposing the Royals because of what the media say. So I was killing two birds with one stone. A) here’s an important reason (royal prerogative/Diego Garcia) & b) given it not reported at all, it can’t be because of the media.
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Fair enough to the point about about defending yourself. The rest of it doesn't really mean anything unless you elaborate, otherwise it's just waffle.

comment by Tomkins (U1116)
posted 5 minutes ago
comment by N2 (U22280)
posted 1 minute ago
No one has mentioned the main important role of the royal that keeps them relevant; to help prop up dictators around the world.
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Like the 'royal' Meg wearing earrings gifted from the vile murderous Saudi prince
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Not quite as impressive as giving the Saudi king a state visit.

When dictators are pictured with the queen, it gives them legitimacy from one of the west's famous institutions.

comment by The Post Nearly Man. 20times, 20legend (U1270)
posted 59 seconds ago
comment by TBaggerin (U11806)
posted 39 seconds ago
So Labour would have handled the pandemic better? Speaking of human rights abuse I see it every day under khan's london
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This should be interesting
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It's the classic straw man argument.

You can't criticise this because that would have been worse.

Honestly, identity politics is all the right have these days.
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Beats being competent or even honest

comment by There'sOnlyOneRed's (U1721)
posted 18 seconds ago
comment by The Post Nearly Man. 20times, 20legend (U1270)
posted 4 minutes ago
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posted 10 minutes ago
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posted 53 seconds ago
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posted 1 second ago
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posted 39 seconds ago
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posted 30 seconds ago
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comment by There'sOnlyOneRed's (U1721)
posted 2 minutes ago
Look, boy meets girl, gets married, they decide they want to be together and not experience all the drama their family brings. The end. FFS move on, nobody cares, let them be.
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How naive. One day you will learn that things are not this black and white. Or more specifically, not white, like Meghan.
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Another racist. Why are you trying to bring race into it Barry? Dress it up as comedy all you want but you havent been funny for years
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If you think Barry is being racist, you're thick. He's the opposite of racist, he's laughing at racists and they're so stupid they think he's on their side.
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So why is he mentioning colour? It's incitment. I know all about Barry. He was funny in 2012.
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Thanks
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Think this place started in 2011 so that's a whole year to be fair. You had your time.
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Cancel culture trying to get Barry.

I thought his mob were against cancel culture.
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They are, that's why the Royal Family are still of importance. But also we should remember the decorated men who took Britain around the world and pillaged countries and took their natives as slaves.

FFS people you can still be proud of your country and accept it had blame in the past.
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Which country are you from out of interest?

comment by Sat Nav (U18243)
posted 1 minute ago
comment by BerbaKing11 (U6256)
posted 8 minutes ago
comment by TBaggerin (U11806)
posted 5 minutes ago
comment by Sat Nav (U18243)
posted 9 minutes ago
comment by Bãles left boot (U22081)
posted 2 minutes ago
You can't bemoan the reasoning to not get rid of something that's turning a profit unless you're willing to provide solid reasoning for the opposite.

BerbaKing11, it comes across like you don't care whether it's a good thing for the country or not.
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Because he doesn’t have sound reasoning behind his opinion. He’s just suffered from decades of media-bashing to make his mind up for him. Yet we’re brain-dead apparently.
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Can tell there's not much of a worthwhile discussion to be had when he ignores most of Bales message and goes down a rabbit hole of something that ultimately doesn't matter (how they're portrayed in the media)
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I haven’t ignored any of his message. And I’ve made one passing reference to the media, and given a concrete example - with a citation - of the way in which the Royal’s are an extension of rapacious power, and how that *never* gets reported. And yet, ironically, Sat Nav thinks my opposition to the Royals is because of a hostile media that I’ve fallen for (despite the media not being hostile to the Royals in any meaningful way, not reporting on the important example I cited).

So I went down no such rabbit hole. It’s amazing how much people can’t seem to read & understand stuff that isn’t very complicated to grasp.
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Well try to help me grasp this then oh enlightened one:

What harm does the monarchy cause us?

Citing a story about the monarchs and concluding that the press is completely pro-monarchy (which isn’t a surprise given that the majority of the country is) doesn’t really stand up to scrutiny.

How many articles have been in the press about how much they ‘cost’ the taxpayer? When in reality they bring in far more than they cost.

The Diana stories were hardly purely pro-monarchy
This current story is very divided with most siding with Harry & Meghan.
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I literally cited an example - one you’ve never heard of - of how the royal prerogative has helped maintain sheer misery upon Diego Garcia - a people forced to live & die in poverty having been kicked off their island by The UK in order to give it to the US as a military base (used in a way that of course causes even greater harm in the ME) and you’re asking how they cause harm? Why not check what I’d shared?

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posted 56 seconds ago
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posted 18 seconds ago
comment by The Post Nearly Man. 20times, 20legend (U1270)
posted 4 minutes ago
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posted 10 minutes ago
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posted 53 seconds ago
comment by Tomkins (U1116)
posted 1 second ago
comment by There'sOnlyOneRed's (U1721)
posted 39 seconds ago
comment by Tomkins (U1116)
posted 30 seconds ago
comment by Osman Sow (U1734)
posted 2 minutes ago
comment by There'sOnlyOneRed's (U1721)
posted 2 minutes ago
Look, boy meets girl, gets married, they decide they want to be together and not experience all the drama their family brings. The end. FFS move on, nobody cares, let them be.
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How naive. One day you will learn that things are not this black and white. Or more specifically, not white, like Meghan.
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Another racist. Why are you trying to bring race into it Barry? Dress it up as comedy all you want but you havent been funny for years
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If you think Barry is being racist, you're thick. He's the opposite of racist, he's laughing at racists and they're so stupid they think he's on their side.
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So why is he mentioning colour? It's incitment. I know all about Barry. He was funny in 2012.
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Thanks
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Think this place started in 2011 so that's a whole year to be fair. You had your time.
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Cancel culture trying to get Barry.

I thought his mob were against cancel culture.
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They are, that's why the Royal Family are still of importance. But also we should remember the decorated men who took Britain around the world and pillaged countries and took their natives as slaves.

FFS people you can still be proud of your country and accept it had blame in the past.
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Which country are you from out of interest?
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UK

comment by Scruttocks (U19684)
posted 1 minute ago
comment by Sat Nav (U18243)
posted 1 minute ago
comment by Scruttocks (U19684)
posted 8 minutes ago
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Ok and how much do they bring in again? Oh yeah hundreds of millions of pounds.

This is a simple diagram for you

https://cdn.images.express.co.uk/img/dynamic/106/590x/secondary/Royal-tax-latest-news-crown-estate-news-royal-family-finances-2564559.jpg?r=tel:tel:1594563000027
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If I or you owned a huge oil field (for instance) by birthright we could rake in billions. Take what we see fit then give some back to the peasants who've paid for all the oil in the first place...
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They bring in hundreds of millions every year, every year. And cost us hundreds of millions less. Hence profits to the ‘peasants’ of hundreds of millions a year.

Jesus Christ.

What harm does having a monarchy in the 21st century cause us? Please tell me, anyone??

Honestly it just boils down to clichéd flawed opinions based on poor media consumption.

The Windsors as a family are a bunch of morons on the whole and the Queen does do a lot for charity but as individuals they don’t have much of my respect and I don’t laud them but having a monarchy which is steeped in centuries and centuries of history and tradition in this country and the pride & pleasure that it brings most people in this country and millions around the world is undeniable.

If Liverpool say replaced YWNWA with the latest One Direction song because tradition is just for the brain-dead; how would that go down? Not very well I’m sure.

Tradition means something, history means something. Be proud that we have history and traditions like most other fking countries. Cup of tea, queen of England, fish and chips, queuing et cetera. They’re all pretty meaningless things, they’re not life and death matters but bloody hell what harm do they cause? Stop being such miserable fk fcks and enjoy some history ffs.

😂😂😂😂
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I guess traditionally you could behead them and take over, not a bad shout
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Haha maybe. You get my point though right? They really don’t cause us any serious harm. I can appreciate people not caring about having them, sure. They’re just dumb rich monarchs as individuals but as an institution they are far more beneficial than harmful.

They don’t even have any real power, well they haven’t exercised any real power in a long long time. Unless we’re talking about 2013 when she pardoned Alan Turing another genius from Wilmslow like me 😂

If you would like the psychology behind this division explained then I am free at some point. It's all very simple when you take a step back.

comment by TBaggerin (U11806)
posted 4 minutes ago
So Labour would have handled the pandemic better? Speaking of human rights abuse I see it every day under khan's london
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This should be interesting
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I’ve got no idea and not sure why you’d even ask or why it’s even relevant. I’d literally made a specific point about how *both* Labour & Tory governments have caused mass harm, mostly abroad. I could have given infinitely more examples across both parties going back decades.

comment by Osman Sow (U1734)
posted 28 seconds ago
If you would like the psychology behind this division explained then I am free at some point. It's all very simple when you take a step back.
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Go for it Barry

comment by TBaggerin (U11806)
posted 4 minutes ago
I used that part because it neatly segued into starting to answer his previous post about why/what my opposition to the RF was based on. As I said - would require some seriously long replies in the main, but I could at least offer one very serious example that virtually nobody knows about precisely because it *doesn’t get reported*. Remember that for context, on more than one occasion I’d been accused of opposing the Royals because of what the media say. So I was killing two birds with one stone. A) here’s an important reason (royal prerogative/Diego Garcia) & b) given it not reported at all, it can’t be because of the media.
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Fair enough to the point about about defending yourself. The rest of it doesn't really mean anything unless you elaborate, otherwise it's just waffle.
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I shared an article AND documentary. Not sure what more elaboration you require!

comment by Scruttocks (U19684)
posted 4 minutes ago
comment by Sat Nav (U18243)
posted 1 minute ago
comment by Scruttocks (U19684)
posted 8 minutes ago
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Ok and how much do they bring in again? Oh yeah hundreds of millions of pounds.

This is a simple diagram for you

https://cdn.images.express.co.uk/img/dynamic/106/590x/secondary/Royal-tax-latest-news-crown-estate-news-royal-family-finances-2564559.jpg?r=tel:1594563000027
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If I or you owned a huge oil field (for instance) by birthright we could rake in billions. Take what we see fit then give some back to the peasants who've paid for all the oil in the first place...
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They bring in hundreds of millions every year, every year. And cost us hundreds of millions less. Hence profits to the ‘peasants’ of hundreds of millions a year.

Jesus Christ.

What harm does having a monarchy in the 21st century cause us? Please tell me, anyone??

Honestly it just boils down to clichéd flawed opinions based on poor media consumption.

The Windsors as a family are a bunch of morons on the whole and the Queen does do a lot for charity but as individuals they don’t have much of my respect and I don’t laud them but having a monarchy which is steeped in centuries and centuries of history and tradition in this country and the pride & pleasure that it brings most people in this country and millions around the world is undeniable.

If Liverpool say replaced YWNWA with the latest One Direction song because tradition is just for the brain-dead; how would that go down? Not very well I’m sure.

Tradition means something, history means something. Be proud that we have history and traditions like most other fking countries. Cup of tea, queen of England, fish and chips, queuing et cetera. They’re all pretty meaningless things, they’re not life and death matters but bloody hell what harm do they cause? Stop being such miserable fk fcks and enjoy some history ffs.

😂😂😂😂
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I guess traditionally you could behead them and take over, not a bad shout
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I've just googled it and it says £1.24 per head per year. Not expensive if correct. What thinks you Scruttock

comment by N2 (U22280)
posted 2 minutes ago
comment by Tomkins (U1116)
posted 5 minutes ago
comment by N2 (U22280)
posted 1 minute ago
No one has mentioned the main important role of the royal that keeps them relevant; to help prop up dictators around the world.
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Like the 'royal' Meg wearing earrings gifted from the vile murderous Saudi prince
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Not quite as impressive as giving the Saudi king a state visit.

When dictators are pictured with the queen, it gives them legitimacy from one of the west's famous institutions.
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After he killed Khashoggi, your beloved Meg accepted his gift

comment by The Post Nearly Man. 20times, 20legend (U1270)
posted 21 seconds ago
comment by Osman Sow (U1734)
posted 28 seconds ago
If you would like the psychology behind this division explained then I am free at some point. It's all very simple when you take a step back.
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Go for it Barry
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Hold on until I roll one. This should be good.

comment by Sat Nav (U18243)
posted 2 minutes ago
comment by Scruttocks (U19684)
posted 8 minutes ago
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Ok and how much do they bring in again? Oh yeah hundreds of millions of pounds.

This is a simple diagram for you

https://cdn.images.express.co.uk/img/dynamic/106/590x/secondary/Royal-tax-latest-news-crown-estate-news-royal-family-finances-2564559.jpg?r=tel:1594563000027
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If I or you owned a huge oil field (for instance) by birthright we could rake in billions. Take what we see fit then give some back to the peasants who've paid for all the oil in the first place...
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They bring in hundreds of millions every year, every year. And cost us hundreds of millions less. Hence profits to the ‘peasants’ of hundreds of millions a year.

Jesus Christ.

What harm does having a monarchy in the 21st century cause us? Please tell me, anyone??

Honestly it just boils down to clichéd flawed opinions based on poor media consumption.

The Windsors as a family are a bunch of morons on the whole and the Queen does do a lot for charity but as individuals they don’t have much of my respect and I don’t laud them but having a monarchy which is steeped in centuries and centuries of history and tradition in this country and the pride & pleasure that it brings most people in this country and millions around the world is undeniable.

If Liverpool say replaced YWNWA with the latest One Direction song because tradition is just for the brain-dead; how would that go down? Not very well I’m sure.

Tradition means something, history means something. Be proud that we have history and traditions like most other fking countries. Cup of tea, queen of England, fish and chips, queuing et cetera. They’re all pretty meaningless things, they’re not life and death matters but bloody hell what harm do they cause? Stop being such miserable fk fcks and enjoy some history ffs.

😂😂😂😂
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All those traditions are "foreign" 😂😂😂

Queens German, monarchies began in sumer or egypt, think the word is german in origin

Tea is chinese . Charles 2 tried to ban it. East india company bought it to these shores but it was an expensive drink

Fish and chips invented by a jewish immigrant

Queueing is a danish in origin and french by name

Therefore we need more foreigners

comment by manusince52 (U9692)
posted 24 seconds ago
comment by Scruttocks (U19684)
posted 4 minutes ago
comment by Sat Nav (U18243)
posted 1 minute ago
comment by Scruttocks (U19684)
posted 8 minutes ago
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Ok and how much do they bring in again? Oh yeah hundreds of millions of pounds.

This is a simple diagram for you

https://cdn.images.express.co.uk/img/dynamic/106/590x/secondary/Royal-tax-latest-news-crown-estate-news-royal-family-finances-2564559.jpg?r=tel:1594563000027
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If I or you owned a huge oil field (for instance) by birthright we could rake in billions. Take what we see fit then give some back to the peasants who've paid for all the oil in the first place...
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They bring in hundreds of millions every year, every year. And cost us hundreds of millions less. Hence profits to the ‘peasants’ of hundreds of millions a year.

Jesus Christ.

What harm does having a monarchy in the 21st century cause us? Please tell me, anyone??

Honestly it just boils down to clichéd flawed opinions based on poor media consumption.

The Windsors as a family are a bunch of morons on the whole and the Queen does do a lot for charity but as individuals they don’t have much of my respect and I don’t laud them but having a monarchy which is steeped in centuries and centuries of history and tradition in this country and the pride & pleasure that it brings most people in this country and millions around the world is undeniable.

If Liverpool say replaced YWNWA with the latest One Direction song because tradition is just for the brain-dead; how would that go down? Not very well I’m sure.

Tradition means something, history means something. Be proud that we have history and traditions like most other fking countries. Cup of tea, queen of England, fish and chips, queuing et cetera. They’re all pretty meaningless things, they’re not life and death matters but bloody hell what harm do they cause? Stop being such miserable fk fcks and enjoy some history ffs.

😂😂😂😂
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I guess traditionally you could behead them and take over, not a bad shout
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I've just googled it and it says £1.24 per head per year. Not expensive if correct. What thinks you Scruttock
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What about their income from the royal estates, including vast swathes of London's most expensive property?

Nationalise that, give the proceeds to the NHS. You can still fund the puppets for a bit of hand waving out of what's left.

comment by manusince52 (U9692)
posted 2 minutes ago
comment by Scruttocks (U19684)
posted 4 minutes ago
comment by Sat Nav (U18243)
posted 1 minute ago
comment by Scruttocks (U19684)
posted 8 minutes ago
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Ok and how much do they bring in again? Oh yeah hundreds of millions of pounds.

This is a simple diagram for you

https://cdn.images.express.co.uk/img/dynamic/106/590x/secondary/Royal-tax-latest-news-crown-estate-news-royal-family-finances-2564559.jpg?r=tel:1594563000027
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If I or you owned a huge oil field (for instance) by birthright we could rake in billions. Take what we see fit then give some back to the peasants who've paid for all the oil in the first place...
----------------------------------------------------------------------
They bring in hundreds of millions every year, every year. And cost us hundreds of millions less. Hence profits to the ‘peasants’ of hundreds of millions a year.

Jesus Christ.

What harm does having a monarchy in the 21st century cause us? Please tell me, anyone??

Honestly it just boils down to clichéd flawed opinions based on poor media consumption.

The Windsors as a family are a bunch of morons on the whole and the Queen does do a lot for charity but as individuals they don’t have much of my respect and I don’t laud them but having a monarchy which is steeped in centuries and centuries of history and tradition in this country and the pride & pleasure that it brings most people in this country and millions around the world is undeniable.

If Liverpool say replaced YWNWA with the latest One Direction song because tradition is just for the brain-dead; how would that go down? Not very well I’m sure.

Tradition means something, history means something. Be proud that we have history and traditions like most other fking countries. Cup of tea, queen of England, fish and chips, queuing et cetera. They’re all pretty meaningless things, they’re not life and death matters but bloody hell what harm do they cause? Stop being such miserable fk fcks and enjoy some history ffs.

😂😂😂😂
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I guess traditionally you could behead them and take over, not a bad shout
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I've just googled it and it says £1.24 per head per year. Not expensive if correct. What thinks you Scruttock
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Wasn't that a false figure as it didn't take into account costs like security etc?

comment by Jinja Ninja (U19849)
posted 9 seconds ago
comment by Sat Nav (U18243)
posted 2 minutes ago
comment by Scruttocks (U19684)
posted 8 minutes ago
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Ok and how much do they bring in again? Oh yeah hundreds of millions of pounds.

This is a simple diagram for you

https://cdn.images.express.co.uk/img/dynamic/106/590x/secondary/Royal-tax-latest-news-crown-estate-news-royal-family-finances-2564559.jpg?r=tel:1594563000027
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If I or you owned a huge oil field (for instance) by birthright we could rake in billions. Take what we see fit then give some back to the peasants who've paid for all the oil in the first place...
----------------------------------------------------------------------
They bring in hundreds of millions every year, every year. And cost us hundreds of millions less. Hence profits to the ‘peasants’ of hundreds of millions a year.

Jesus Christ.

What harm does having a monarchy in the 21st century cause us? Please tell me, anyone??

Honestly it just boils down to clichéd flawed opinions based on poor media consumption.

The Windsors as a family are a bunch of morons on the whole and the Queen does do a lot for charity but as individuals they don’t have much of my respect and I don’t laud them but having a monarchy which is steeped in centuries and centuries of history and tradition in this country and the pride & pleasure that it brings most people in this country and millions around the world is undeniable.

If Liverpool say replaced YWNWA with the latest One Direction song because tradition is just for the brain-dead; how would that go down? Not very well I’m sure.

Tradition means something, history means something. Be proud that we have history and traditions like most other fking countries. Cup of tea, queen of England, fish and chips, queuing et cetera. They’re all pretty meaningless things, they’re not life and death matters but bloody hell what harm do they cause? Stop being such miserable fk fcks and enjoy some history ffs.

😂😂😂😂
----------------------------------------------------------------------

All those traditions are "foreign" 😂😂😂

Queens German, monarchies began in sumer or egypt, think the word is german in origin

Tea is chinese . Charles 2 tried to ban it. East india company bought it to these shores but it was an expensive drink

Fish and chips invented by a jewish immigrant

Queueing is a danish in origin and french by name

Therefore we need more foreigners
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But we created the roads blue

comment by There'sOnlyOneRed's (U1721)
posted 2 minutes ago
comment by The Post Nearly Man. 20times, 20legend (U1270)
posted 21 seconds ago
comment by Osman Sow (U1734)
posted 28 seconds ago
If you would like the psychology behind this division explained then I am free at some point. It's all very simple when you take a step back.
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Go for it Barry
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Hold on until I roll one. This should be good.
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Have you seen the film Limitless? That's what gin and tonic does to my brain. Does anyone else get that? Going to have some now

But we created the roads blud*.

Holy crap MacBooks have predictive text, I'm out.

comment by N2 (U22280)
posted 8 minutes ago
comment by Tomkins (U1116)
posted 5 minutes ago
comment by N2 (U22280)
posted 1 minute ago
No one has mentioned the main important role of the royal that keeps them relevant; to help prop up dictators around the world.
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Like the 'royal' Meg wearing earrings gifted from the vile murderous Saudi prince
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Not quite as impressive as giving the Saudi king a state visit.

When dictators are pictured with the queen, it gives them legitimacy from one of the west's famous institutions.
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True. But she does it on behalf of the government,

comment by BerbaKing11 (U6256)
posted 3 minutes ago
comment by TBaggerin (U11806)
posted 4 minutes ago
I used that part because it neatly segued into starting to answer his previous post about why/what my opposition to the RF was based on. As I said - would require some seriously long replies in the main, but I could at least offer one very serious example that virtually nobody knows about precisely because it *doesn’t get reported*. Remember that for context, on more than one occasion I’d been accused of opposing the Royals because of what the media say. So I was killing two birds with one stone. A) here’s an important reason (royal prerogative/Diego Garcia) & b) given it not reported at all, it can’t be because of the media.
________________

Fair enough to the point about about defending yourself. The rest of it doesn't really mean anything unless you elaborate, otherwise it's just waffle.
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I shared an article AND documentary. Not sure what more elaboration you require!

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I'm at work, can't be expected to look into all that

comment by Tomkins (U1116)
posted 1 minute ago
comment by N2 (U22280)
posted 2 minutes ago
comment by Tomkins (U1116)
posted 5 minutes ago
comment by N2 (U22280)
posted 1 minute ago
No one has mentioned the main important role of the royal that keeps them relevant; to help prop up dictators around the world.
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Like the 'royal' Meg wearing earrings gifted from the vile murderous Saudi prince
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Not quite as impressive as giving the Saudi king a state visit.

When dictators are pictured with the queen, it gives them legitimacy from one of the west's famous institutions.
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After he killed Khashoggi, your beloved Meg accepted his gift
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I’ve no great affinity to Markle - I know very little about her not particularly care - but as I understand, those earrings were a gift to the Queen, who had lent them to Markle later on. It’s not remotely clear that Markle knew who they were from originally. So at best, we should be cautious about this line of attack on her, and equally, if we’re so appalled at the idea of accepting a gift from the Saudi’s, we should be demanding the resignation of much of our political class for vastly worse collusion with the Saudi’s, not to mention the amount of Saudi investment sloshing around the UK since the 1970’s.

comment by Osman Sow (U1734)
posted 34 seconds ago
comment by There'sOnlyOneRed's (U1721)
posted 2 minutes ago
comment by The Post Nearly Man. 20times, 20legend (U1270)
posted 21 seconds ago
comment by Osman Sow (U1734)
posted 28 seconds ago
If you would like the psychology behind this division explained then I am free at some point. It's all very simple when you take a step back.
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Go for it Barry
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Hold on until I roll one. This should be good.
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Have you seen the film Limitless? That's what gin and tonic does to my brain. Does anyone else get that? Going to have some now
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You must go through gallons of it. Or you're just past the point where you don't go back.

comment by There'sOnlyOneRed's (U1721)
posted 28 seconds ago
But we created the roads blud*.

Holy crap MacBooks have predictive text, I'm out.
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I don't know what's more surprising, predictive text on a MacBook or you calling someone 'Blud'