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If the UK were able to have a Brexit like vote, on whether to keep the royal family or give them the Spanish archer. What do you think the outcome would be.
Ps. Id be on the give them the elbow side.
Like many other places, the majority of people of the UK can't seem to grasp how to vote in their best interests. Thus, a Tory government, Brexit and if it came to a vote, the royal family.
We ought to sell them to the Americans.Alaska plus a few trillion.
I wouldn't say it's a definite benefit that we got rid of the royals. Certainly, some things like Eugenie's wedding are an absolute joke, and doing up their houses but others, like having Buckingham Palace etc are probably worth keeping. If the royals didn't live there any more, I don't think anyone would care/would go.
Maybe, I don't know. VisitBritain reckons that tourism linked to royal residences such as Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle adds up to 2.7 million visitors a year. Brand Finance estimated in 2017 that the monarchy’s annual contribution to the UK economy to be around £1.8bn a year, drawing in an additional £550m of tourism revenues a year, and an increase in trade, from the Royal Family acting as ambassadors, supposedly worth £150m a year.
Now, who's to say that they'd get given similar numbers if they weren't there but they might? I don't think many people think any of the lesser royals (or even the royals themselves) should get the silver spoon treatment they currently get but I'm not sure it's as clear cut as people make out. I don't particularly care either way but I know a great deal of people who do.
The roles of royal families and the Heads of State are not primarily to bring in the tourists. Maybe they should be taken off the current payroll and removed from any meaningful official roles and simply paid a few quid to dress up and thrill the foreign punters.
I think the tourism thing is a misnomer, look how many people visit Versaille.
I don't have a problem with the Royals themselves but if I had a vote I'd vote to get rid of them. **** paying for weddings and renovations when we could be helping homeless people.
5.5 million a year visit the palace of Versailles, barely any getti go into Buckingham palace.
The whole tourism angle is bogus
I dont understand what royalty is tbh.
At one time long ago in history your family was the strongest and richest...that evolved into some type of blue blood magic.
utter garbage.Get rid or let them do do charity work for hospitals for kids and cancer.
Oakwood Park has more visitors a year than Windsor Castle. The French seem to manage the Palace of Versailles very well without having parasites living in it. In fact, if there were no royals, tourists would be able to visit a lot more of Buck House than they can at the moment, which would probably attract far more visitors like Versailles does.
Let the queen see her stint out and then get rid.
If we didn't have a Royal Family then who would we have as President?
We cant even find anyone decent to be PM let alone find any decent candidates to be an elected head of state.
Keep it as it is with regard to influence and responsibilities but you have to be voted in and it's for a fixed term of 10 years, you can only run for president if you have been a past winner of a British Citizen Award, i.e you have to have done some remarkable work for your local community to qualify.
Seeing as the majority rely on the National Health Service, adequate policing and fire service and are not really served by military spending, seeing as Wales has received huge investment from the EU, then surely it can be argued that the people have not exactly voted in their own interest?