£99.9mil cost per year for Royal Family. Worth it?

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Unreasonable - time to scrap
Not unreasonable - worth the money

I work on government contracts. £99.9 million is just a drop in the ocean to be honest! UK gov has 100s of big contracts all worth much more than that. In fact it’s made me think what good value they are when compared to the cultural and historical impact they have.

You had me at Trump. I don't think we'd need a president either.

Right - but if PoW is worth a billion, as they say, and pays the millions of pounds announced the other day, he pays 1.67% of his worth in tax.

What % do you pay?

I mean, I pay a hell of a lot more than that...

They absolutely do not "pay their way. "

"Slimed down monarchy" means that a greedy King Charles gets to keep all the filthy lucre that he grabs from us for himself and not share it with the rellies.

And it means that he can set Camilla's son, daughter, sister, and husband up with lovely trust funds so they can sustain a life that means they never need to "sell" a story.

And so on.

Plus ca change and all that...

Why do people visit Versailles?

That's simply not true. France gets more tourism than we do but don't have a monarch.

The amount of rent they charge charities that they are patrons of is immoral.

The billionaire in a tiara is head of the entrenched privilege cult.

I’d sooner pay £18 for them than pay for my cousins daughter who had her 1st child at 16 then went on to have another 2 before she was 23 because she “likes babies “ not a farther in sight and works the magical 16hrs

Prince Harry is now moaning that he might not be bringing his family over next month because he's been refused tax payer funded police protection. He should stick his hand in his pocket and pay for private security.

So about £1.40 for every man, woman and child in the country? They're worth that in entertainment value alone, surely? I mean, maybe not much more than that, depending on your level of interest. But about that.

The money they receive is spent (mostly) in this country, in the wages of thousands of people,bin purchases from businesses, in keeping artisan craftworkers employed, in buying from / supporting small businesses .. all
of this creates revenue for the public purse. They don’t just stick it in a big room.

No it’s not, we would actually make more money without them. Open up palaces to paying visitors, look at France. They actually make more money from ex royal properties than we make from the royals overall.

visitors would still come to London, they don’t come to see the royal family. Imagine the revenue from Buckingham palace tours.

we have a billionaire royal family, yes they pay tax, but far less tax than they should.

We pay for security, renovations, trips, food etc. We even have to lease land from them like it’s some form of feudal system.

if we can have a vote re the EU, they should give us a vote on the RF aka post benefit claimants

Is there a GoFundMe page for the visit?
I'd happily pay a No royals tax. It's just far too much pompousness.

I’ve been to Versailles and so have millions of others & they continue to do so

Very True…

And Spain also gets a similar number of tourists as France (96 million vs 100 million) and Spain has a monarchy.

The reason France has more tourists is that it borders eight countries, it has many famous sites, the geography is so diverse from Mediterranean beaches to alpine ski resorts and wine, food and fashion.

Believe me - no one comes to the UK to see the wonders of Bradford and to eat kebabs in the rain whilst drinking a can of Monster.

How much do events like Trooping of the Colour bring into the economy? The spending from the visitors/spectators must be huge. Most of those spectators wouldn't be wondering around London that day if it wasn't Trooping the Colour! That's spending on travel, hotels, meals, souvenirs, and other attractions.

You wouldn't get those huge crowds otherwise. They're only there to see the Royals. Yes, you may get some crowds if similar precessions happened without the Royals in attendance, but nowhere near the same numbers.

Same with royal "walkabouts" and official visits in other towns and cities all over the country. The places are heaving with people, all spending money in local shops etc, some staying in local hotels for short breaks etc. When Charlie Boy came to our town a year or two ago, one of my clients, a little Guest House got fully booked literally the day the royal visit was announced - that was out of season and he was otherwise empty and devoid of bookings that week!

Don't underestimate the pulling power of huge numbers of people who actively want to go and see the Royal, or even just the Royals passing in their car! Despite what people think, they're still very popular and they do drive economic spending.

Nail on the head, especially your comment about the awful city of Bradford.

Of course France gets more tourism as they're adjoining several other countries and there is easy access from most other European countries. The UK is different, harder and more expensive to travel to because it's an Island.

There's loads of beautiful places around Bradford. Saltaire is UNESCO world heritage. Ilkley moors. Brontë country is very close. Don't do this country down.

Of course there are scuzzy bits but there's lots of industrial towns abroad that are worth visiting to o.

The royal family are an anacronism in this day and age, they exist merely to protect their wealth.

I must admit, I thought it would be more like 80% YABU and 20% YANBU. I'm quite pleased that it's 40% support, as I'm a Royalist and I think the Royals are good value for money!

Isn't it £1.42 per person per year or something? You couldn't even buy a Mars bar for that these days.

And as has been said, nobody, from overseas is coming to the UK to see Bradford! 😬😂

& you really believe the come to see the royal family 🤣…That they don’t come to see London? That maybe even more would come if they could get visitors tickets into the BH palace? Or do you believe that tourist numbers would drop?