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£38.43 each households contribution to the jubilee.

157 replies

francesfrankenfurter · 31/05/2022 15:33

This is the cost of the jubilee celebrations to every household in Britain. It is based on the government figures of the cost overall being a billion pounds.

Do you think that is good value for money? Or would you have preferred to have the money in your own pocket?

OP posts:
ssd · 31/05/2022 18:14

worriedatthistime · 31/05/2022 18:10

@ssd you must be getting time of in lieu though

Nope. Im paid single time whenever i work.

Whelmed · 31/05/2022 18:18

I think it's ok, it's not like the government would have spent that money wisely anyways..... It would have ended up in a cronies pocket.

AuntieMarys · 31/05/2022 18:19

My dh is working a 12 hour shift on Thursday and does not get a day off in lieu

TiredButAlive · 31/05/2022 18:20

I would prefer to have that money. There are other "costs" as well. For example my GP surgery is closing for the entirety of the four day Bank Holiday. This will simply push yet more work towards those staffing A and E, who don't get to celebrate this occasion!!!

Oioicaptain · 31/05/2022 18:25

Doesn't that amount factor in the lost earnings/business rather than them just spending that amount on the celebrations?

SliceOfCakeCupOfTea · 31/05/2022 18:29

Honestly, I'd rather not have the day off.
All that's going to happen round here are the piss heads who used the 8pm clap for the NHS to set off fireworks and get pissed in the street are going to....set off fireworks and get pissed. The streets are always a mess after as well.

I'll end up spending the day doing odd jobs around the house. No way will I be celebrating a rich woman who I do not know for surviving a long time.

CharlotteRose90 · 31/05/2022 18:46

worriedatthistime · 31/05/2022 18:06

@CharlotteRose90 how do they sponge of you , do you know they bring in revenue and pay taxes, im pretty sure you don't fund them very much and they pay a lot more in
People spout all this without thinking if the bigger picture

Of course they do. And yet it’s the tax payer that pays for most of the things haha. They sponge and always will. It’s sickening

SheWoreYellow · 31/05/2022 18:48

Where is that £38 figure coming from?

Googling would suggest it’s 50p per person.

overponder · 31/05/2022 19:14

Pathetic. As is the whole jubilee lark.

Who really gives two shits.

HereIAmBrainTheSizeOfAPlanet · 31/05/2022 19:19

DoubleDiamond · 31/05/2022 15:57

Do they mean that this is the cost to the country of having an extra day's bank holiday? Not the cost of having Brian May standing on a milk float or whatever it's going to be.

A billion pounds for Brian May to stand on a milk float 😂

the80sweregreat · 31/05/2022 19:21

Last time Brian May stood on the roof of Buck house ! A milkfloat is a bit of comedown

etulosba · 31/05/2022 19:29

Doesn't that amount factor in the lost earnings/business rather than them just spending that amount on the celebrations?

Yes, but don’t let the facts get in the way of ill informed indignation.

“In 2012, a study by the Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR) think tank estimated that each bank holiday costs the British economy £2.3bn through lost productivity.”

Source: www.ns-businesshub.com/business/bank-holiday-economy-uk/

donquixotedelamancha · 31/05/2022 19:35

SheWoreYellow · 31/05/2022 18:48

Where is that £38 figure coming from?

Googling would suggest it’s 50p per person.

The direct funding earmarked in the budget is 28 million, so that alone is £1 per tax payer.

The total cost to the UK economy is estimated at up to 3.5 billion by DCMS with a nett cost of 1.2 billion assuming a tourism bump.

I don't know how the OP calculated the 1 billion figure but given the government is roughly 40% of GDP it doesn't seem unreasonable. A large part of that will be public sector wages.

fullfact.org/news/will-queens-jubilee-cost-britain-05-cent-gdp/

balalake · 31/05/2022 20:45

The so-called cost of a bank holiday is often at the margin not a great deal. No-one in most jobs in the public sector is going to be paid extra some other time, it is just one more day off.

Even when police overtime is added in, I doubt the £1 billion figure.

JacquelineCarlyle · 31/05/2022 21:00

feministqueen · 31/05/2022 15:52

I think it's a great thing! People up and down the country as well as those around the world are celebrating the Jubilee. The celebrations around the country will bring much needed tourism here, bringing money into our country. It's a good thing

Sure. There are always miserable bastards who look for the negatives in everything. But those fun sponges are the ones who are gonna be sat in their homes whilst everyone else is out having fun. The cost of one celebration isn't proportionate to accumulate to "spending it on the nhs" or any other claptrap. If the nhs were a private company, it would've folded long ago with its inefficiencies and bullshit. Yes, some of the people do great work but there are lots problems. Maybe we should all forgo our takeaways or coffees or weekly since of cake and give it to the nhs eh?

I completely agree with this.

Bonkerz · 31/05/2022 21:07

No benefit to me. Self employed and half term. Not working and not being paid. Can't go out as streets either side of me closed.
Streets closed to outsiders so no celebrations here.

carefullycourageous · 31/05/2022 21:09

balalake · 31/05/2022 20:45

The so-called cost of a bank holiday is often at the margin not a great deal. No-one in most jobs in the public sector is going to be paid extra some other time, it is just one more day off.

Even when police overtime is added in, I doubt the £1 billion figure.

We can just close every day with no impact fnancially then...

Of course it costs money. That was the government's assessment.

Siepie · 31/05/2022 21:18

TiredButAlive · 31/05/2022 18:20

I would prefer to have that money. There are other "costs" as well. For example my GP surgery is closing for the entirety of the four day Bank Holiday. This will simply push yet more work towards those staffing A and E, who don't get to celebrate this occasion!!!

So's my GP surgery.

And they sent a text out this morning saying that they had no appointments at all left for today or tomorrow, and not to call. I presume because so many people had appointments they needed getting in before the 4-day weekend.

But who cares if we're able to get healthcare, as long as a billionaire feels adequately adored by her subjects!

gianaInfertilitySucks · 31/05/2022 21:18

Personally I dont like it, and I would prefer if it didnt exist, BUT I'm an Italian that moved to england, so I made a very concious choice to accept the terms and conditions of living in a country that has monarchy. It's my choice, so I feel that I cannot really object to it if you know what I mean

Rubysmama77 · 31/05/2022 21:45

crosbystillsandmash · 31/05/2022 15:38

It absolutely sickens me.

No, I don't want that money myself but I'd have much preferred it to go to someone who needed it or it be spent on the nhs.

Remind me what we're celebrating? Over paid and privileged human manages to live a long life, while having access to the best food, housing and healthcare money can buy. What an achievement eh?
Oh and let's not forget her slightly dodgy/dubious family.

Hip hip hooray!! 🙄

This!!

donquixotedelamancha · 01/06/2022 07:53

If the nhs were a private company, it would've folded long ago with its inefficiencies and bullshit.

This is a complete myth. The NHS is more than twice as efficient as the US system, for example.

Where the NHS has problems is that it lacks resources to keep up with demand and doesn't have the funding for capital investment which makes services more effective.

For what it achieves it is incredibly cheap.

Trampitt · 01/06/2022 12:30

The BBC reckons it’s more like £2.50.

Starts about 30 seconds in.

More or Less programme.

ssd · 01/06/2022 12:34

Well they would. The BBC is hardly going to tell us the truth when they are doffing their hats at the royals and practising their curtseys.

Blossomtoes · 01/06/2022 12:34

carefullycourageous · 31/05/2022 16:08

The DCMS Impact Assessment estimates that the cost would be around £1.2 billion, which equates to around 0.08 per cent of GDP, but could be as high as £3.5 billion (0.25 per cent of GDP).

fullfact.org/news/will-queens-jubilee-cost-britain-05-cent-gdp/

Thank you for that. So, in fact, it’s costing nothing of the sort.

Trampitt · 01/06/2022 12:37

ssd · 01/06/2022 12:34

Well they would. The BBC is hardly going to tell us the truth when they are doffing their hats at the royals and practising their curtseys.

I found statistical radio programme more persuasive than you. Sorry.