Trooping the colour booing

I think most people like them and they bring in 1.7billion to the UK economy.

Please can you provide evidence other than the Brand Finance report supporting this?

Yes, I understood. Irony doesn't work well on here does it?

She paid £12 million in an attempt to make it all go away instead of taking the action the King has taken.

You mean because the emails were given to the Palace during the Queen's reign? And she paid the £12 million for something that never happened and Andrew didn't do?

The person responsible who should have been booed is now dead.

I don't think KC took 'decisive action' on Andrew at all. He has made a show of taking action against him when he was forced into it....and that only because of the stuff that has come out of the Epstein files proving the level of corruption. The British establishment otoh has kept largely quiet and protected him as well as the rest of his family.

I just don't believe the rest of them did not know what Andrew was up to, it is not plausible. I think they are mostly as corrupt as he is and up to their necks in it. I can never get over Buckingham Palace issuing a statement - at the time of Virginia Giuffre's original accusations - that they were 'false and without foundation'. That was the spokesperson of our Head of State, publicly branding a sex trafficking victim as a liar.

No wonder they are being booed now.

Yes there are many problems facing the UK....which I would have thought made it imperative to direct resources & attention towards resolving those problems rather than lavishing them on the monarchy. You may be happy for your taxes to be spent on this but many of us aren't.

Do you roll your eyes at other MN posters too and accuse them of fussing over their own problems? It is possible to care about more than one thing at a time. I am aware that there are other serious problems facing us as a country, but happen to think that the archaic and elitist system of government is one of them, and exacerbates many of the others.

As for T of the C 'it's watched across the world' - really? I think a lot of monarchists are in denial as to how royal pageantry makes us look....if people outside this country are aware of it at all I would guess that it is as likely to be regarded as alienating and anachronistic, as it is to show us in a positive light.

If you look at the Royals at the races and compare it to when they are in the carriages there is a stark contrast. They look as if they are enjoying themselves watching the horses but in the parade, nothing to do with the small protest, they generally look uncomfortable. I would be happy to give them more freedom from their gilded cage and release much-needed funds from upkeep, security, etc, to the taxpayer.

They have every right to 'spoil' it given that they like the rest of us have no choice but to pay for this and no means available to oppose the monarchy other than through public protest.

They really aren’t. There is a single sex trafficker, tax dodger, serial philanderer, adulterer, marriage wrecker, environmental hypocrite, coverer for a criminal, lazy, entitled, feckless, pompous twat in my entire family.

Our family is far better than them in every way. Yours too possibly.

They really really aren’t.

Exactly. Thats literally the point of a monarchy. You get whoever’s next in line. It’s one of the reasons I dont endorse it. We could very easily have ended up with a repellent king Andrew and queen fergie and there would be nothing we could do about it 🤮.

Also listened to Andrew Lownies book. Nail
in coffin for me.

That’s not how the monarchy operates. It’s the first born that inherits - not who is nicest/best looking/most popular or even best qualified.

you either accept it as a whole and everything that entails or you don’t -there is no pick or choose option.

That’s your view, and you’re entitled to it. Others have a different view. My view, of it being an anachronism, was reinforced by reading the excellent books written by Norman Baker and Andrew Lownie

I don't understand where this £1.7 billion figure comes from or how it is calculated? In my experience visitors from other countries latch on to certain symbols of a country and want to see those things. The Eiffel Tower is a perfect example - nothing to do with Royals.

An influential icon generating enormous amounts of merchandise is Hello Kitty. Despite all appearances to the contrary she is a British girl!

Charles and Camilla should never have taken the throne, conceited idiots. They have little support from anyone younger than the pensioners. They have damaged the monarchy.
Should have gone straight to Will and Kate as a more popular couple and for a much longer innings.

Beautifully put 👏👏

What you "think" (if you can call it thinking) is irrelevant.

First, the £1.7 billion figure gets repeated endlessly, but it's gross economic activity, not a cheque written to the Treasury. The UK tourism industry is worth hundreds of billions. Tourists come for history, architecture, museums, culture and heritage sites. France attracts more tourists than Britain without a monarchy at all.

Second, "they bring in money" doesn't answer the criticism being made. Plenty of things generate revenue. That doesn't make them immune from scrutiny. If your entire defence boils down to "it makes money", you've abandoned the actual argument.

Third, dismissing everyone who disagrees with you as "unemployed pink-haired tosspots" is usually a sign that you've run out of facts. Plenty of republicans are taxpayers, professionals, business owners and employers. Inventing a cartoon version of your opponents doesn't strengthen your case; it advertises the weakness of it.

So far you've offered a dubious headline figure, a non-sequitur and an insult.

That's not an argument. That's a tantrum.

I think most people like them and they bring in 1.7billion to the UK economy. What are these complainers add, they are probably unemployed pink haired toss pots.

This kind of thread makes me roll my eyes. When I think of the problems facing the UK and the world at the moment...and some people are fussing over the royals and the T of the C.

Like the RF or hate them, they are not the problem.

And as for Trooping the Colour - it's just incredible by any standards as entertainment and as a spectacle. It's watched across the world and it's unique, I should think. I love it - I know musicians who've been in it and I cannot fathom how they do what they do - just phenomenal.

Whatever bit of my taxes goes to pay for the monarchy I think it's worth it for T of the C alone.

Guess the politicians could vote in a bill de funding them and reclaiming duchy of Cornwall etc.

They don’t care that’s the point. There’s little interest in them so eventually the politicians are likely to question the point of their funding and constitutional power.

JuliettaCaeser · Today 14:28
I don’t know. But my teens and their friends are supremely indifferent. Does anyone know any royalist under 20?! Things can change if the will is there

Ok, so how do your teens and their friends think they should be removed?