£162 million to bury the queen

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£162 Million to bury the Queen! AIBU to think this could have been better spent improving Public Services like the NHS, Education, Housing etc

Didn’t she organise it?

Imagine the telly advert?
A funeral fit for a Queen 😂

I agree. There will never be another event like it. She is up there with Elizabeth I and Queen Victoria in status and deserved what she had.

@Vitriolinsanity landrover surely!

@Toddlerteaplease I went for deluxe, but you're right in that you can't beat a Landy.

The coffin could have had a folded headscarf atop.

🤣🤣🤣 frugal?

Yes, moaning. I’m also a taxpayer and have a perfect right to say how my tax should be spent. Yours is not the only view you know, and I do disagree and think you’re just a big moaner 😂

Also not arsed about how much William will cost for his as I’ll probably be dead. No doubt when the Queen was crowned there were people bitching but as time passed they passed into oblivion along with their moaning opinions. The memory of the spectacle was what was remembered.

@MintJulia I agree

I think you're overestimating her.

That amount would not make a dent in education or NHS budgets. She was the Queen for many years and worked way past retirement age. She deserved her state funeral. I quite enjoyed watching it.

So because every other economy has the same problems we should just shrug our shoulders and be ok with it?

Sure. Sounds great.

You what? She signed off on it, and knew very well what it cost.

She wasn’t frugal, she kept half a dozen residences going, plus the yacht, the train, the racehorses, the houses for the kids, the bagpiper under her window every morning, etc

Realistically the money would only keep the NHS going for 5 mins and she was head of state for yonks, the funeral did get a lot of international viewing figures, so maybe it was useful.. but the RF isn’t remotely frugal.

But it not just the cost of the her funeral.

We need to add the cost ofall their funerals, corronation, jubilees, taxes not paid, security for all of them, insurance and so on.

Once you start to put it all together they are very expensive indeed.

And the tourism thing does not add up - France has empty palaces that do just fine.

Think of all the pot holes that could have been filled in for that sort of money. Makes me want to cry.

So because every other economy has the same problems we should just shrug our shoulders and be ok with it?

No, I'm not saying that. I'm saying that if no other country has managed to achieve that, not even the higher tax countries, it might be that the solution to these problems is more complex than just finding more money.

“While the average annual cost for UK taxpayers in royal upkeep comes to around £500m a year, Brand Finance estimates the monarchy's brand contributes £2.5bn to the British economy in the same timeframe.”
Taken from The Independent 6th May 23.

The monarchy received a sovereign grant of £86m in 2020/21, making it the largest declared source of royal income. While the figure is reviewed every five years, the Sovereign Grant is normally calculated at 15% of the crown estate profits.
I’d love to know from republicans how we’d pay for a president. Where would the government get the funds from? It wouldn’t be from the Crown Estate.

I disagree. Everyone is all doom and gloom nowadays and a bit if pomp and glamour is exactly what we need as a country.

Her family should have paid for it - they can afford it.

We had to move 1300 people to London for 2 weeks. The hotel and overtime bills were enormous.

Of course it was.

I was in Edinburgh the day the coffin arrived from Balmoral. There were thousands and thousands of people on the Royal Mile, 4 or 5 deep in most places. At any event of that size, whether it's a funeral or New Year celebrations there will be lots of security and lots of police. And there were LOTS of police in Edinburgh, one every 10 or 15 feet down the route, on each side of the road.

It's not that the £162 million has been spent on a coffin, flowers, and a funeral tea for the family.

I don't think I'll ever see the like again in my lifetime

Chances are you will see the like again in the next ten years.

Fruitful82 · Yesterday 15:21
I think the queen would have been appalled by the money spent.

a frugal understated woman, but they disrespected her by doing what they would have known she would have felt very uncomfortable about

This is such a load of rubbish. Read And What Do You Do, by Norman Baker and educate yourself. Bet you won't though.

They should have then kept the income from it. I bet they'd have been happy with that.

Which was good for the hotels and kept money circulating in the economy.