But they’re good for tourism!
‘Checks figures from France to see this isn’t the case’
But they’re go for tourism!
The current funding of the monarchy, the Sovereign Grant, is the best deal available to the public that is just the reality. The Government take about 78-84% of their income, depending on things like the renovation of Buckingham Palace and the Windsor Castle fire.
Something I find humorous which Republicans never quite seem to be able to explain, is that if Government re-possesses the Royal land they have to pay 150% of the asset value. This is the same for everyone in the country, if they intend you build a road through your property they can, if they buy it for 150% of the asset value.
During WW2, the biggest crisis in our history, when they nationalised what they called strategic assets as the time, such as railways and the coal mines, they paid the owners 150% of the asset value. Yet the main proposal I have heard Republicans mention is we should abolish those rules. So the Government can then do whatever they want with our property, provided they can take the Royals property off them for nothing. Then they act like they won’t do the same to the rest of country.
They also seem to think the Royals would personally be annoyed when the state hand them tens of billion pounds with none of their current responsibilities.
If the Royals are making too much money, the Government should reduce the Sovereign Grant.
>The crown estate owns virtually all of the seabed around the UK to a distance of 12 nautical miles.
Have we tried installing a competent government yet?
Maybe we could try that first? Instead of dividing the nation and blaming all our problems on ‘the others’.
Maybe we could choose a government that has the best interests of the UK people at heart?
##justathought
The Guardian being so republican is just boring now, the seabed isn’t on the market and completely controlled by parliament….ie the people of the nation.
I swear to god they want to destroy all our culture
The Guardian is publishing an anti-monarchy article. Colour me shocked.
I think it should be funded out of general taxation and its finances controlled by a separate entity.
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But they’re good for tourism!
‘Checks figures from France to see this isn’t the case’
But they’re go for tourism!
The current funding of the monarchy, the Sovereign Grant, is the best deal available to the public that is just the reality. The Government take about 78-84% of their income, depending on things like the renovation of Buckingham Palace and the Windsor Castle fire.
Something I find humorous which Republicans never quite seem to be able to explain, is that if Government re-possesses the Royal land they have to pay 150% of the asset value. This is the same for everyone in the country, if they intend you build a road through your property they can, if they buy it for 150% of the asset value.
During WW2, the biggest crisis in our history, when they nationalised what they called strategic assets as the time, such as railways and the coal mines, they paid the owners 150% of the asset value. Yet the main proposal I have heard Republicans mention is we should abolish those rules. So the Government can then do whatever they want with our property, provided they can take the Royals property off them for nothing. Then they act like they won’t do the same to the rest of country.
They also seem to think the Royals would personally be annoyed when the state hand them tens of billion pounds with none of their current responsibilities.
If the Royals are making too much money, the Government should reduce the Sovereign Grant.
>The crown estate owns virtually all of the seabed around the UK to a distance of 12 nautical miles.
I did not know this, more [info here.](https://research.senedd.wales/research-articles/who-owns-the-seabed-and-why-it-matters/) It seems the bit the Guardian fails to mention though is that “it’s not the private property of the monarch. It cannot be sold by the monarch, nor do revenues from it belong to the sovereign.”
Have we tried installing a competent government yet?
Maybe we could try that first? Instead of dividing the nation and blaming all our problems on ‘the others’.
Maybe we could choose a government that has the best interests of the UK people at heart?
##justathought
The Guardian being so republican is just boring now, the seabed isn’t on the market and completely controlled by parliament….ie the people of the nation.
I swear to god they want to destroy all our culture
The Guardian is publishing an anti-monarchy article. Colour me shocked.
I think it should be funded out of general taxation and its finances controlled by a separate entity.