they can stay for me but I don't get the tourism arguement

 

how many of these millions of these tourists spending their billions actually see the royal family?

 

they are never in, and only come out on to the balcony now and again when they are having a family do

 

people would still come to see buckingham palace even if they weren't about - we just need to keep the queen's guards for photos and the opportunity to try and make them smile or flinch - that's what people really come to see - same goes for the beefeaters at the tower, they'd still be there regardless

Isn't the richest of the nobility The Duke of Westminster? Someone you'd not recognise if you bumped into him in the foyer of Claridges? Folk talk some shite about the visible ones with duties, scrapping them would merely scrap their duties and allow them to their own devices...Utterly pointless and borne of the school of lefty crap.

The crown estate is valued at billions

 

Dont think there is much appetite for a revolution with the aim of stealing property from the crown estate

Saw a programme about how rich the queen is a while back.

 

Even once you get past the how do you value such one of a kind items, there's the question of what is hers as Elisabeth Windsor and what is property of the nation as it was given to her in her role as Britain's figure head.

The monarchy seems to irritate the right people so let's stick with it.

It also fuels the John Bull lot, and I know who I'd rather wind up.

she's taking the piss now

 

driving on the grass at Windsor Park

 

and she's NOT EVEN GOT A LICENCE

 

 

http://metro.co.uk/2015/07/20/queens-veers-in-to-grass-to-avoid-hitting-young-family-5304337/?ito=facebook

It has emerged that  the Queen wrote to Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin asking for a signed photograph.

Isn't the richest of the nobility The Duke of Westminster? Someone you'd not recognise if you bumped into him in the foyer of Claridges? Folk talk some shite about the visible ones with duties, scrapping them would merely scrap their duties and allow them to their own devices...Utterly pointless and borne of the school of lefty crap.

I'd recognise him...mainly due to the photo Mrs Dee has of him and her.

Whilst you nicked his wallet?

To be fair, Hitler and the Nazis probably got the salute idea originally from Prince Philip.

Still under the same Queen you numpty. As for fucking off, I was chosen by a country which has subsequently given me a very nice lifestyle. You made the choice to go to a shithole whose GDP revolves around the turnip.

 

That's what a pickled brain and deep fried Mars bars can do to you kids. Addlepated.

. You never fail to amaze. You've the same queen but you've more faces than the town hall clock. I went to a country that I admire more than the UK for family values and decent people ... I moved back to the country of my birth through patriotism at a time that I truly believed we might seize our destiny in our own hands and move away from the shit that comes from the south. Nothing to do with the people... As I said 99 % of guys I met here (including you skippy) are spot on but we deserve our own path without a royal family that is neither useful or wanted

. You never fail to amaze. You've the same queen but you've more faces than the town hall clock. I went to a country that I admire more than the UK for family values and decent people ... I moved back to the country of my birth through patriotism at a time that I truly believed we might seize our destiny in our own hands and move away from the shit that comes from the south. Nothing to do with the people... As I said 99 % of guys I met here (including you skippy) are spot on but we deserve our own path without a royal family that is neither useful or wanted

If the whole of the UK had a vote, maybe you would have the opportunity to take your own path. It's a paradox that Scottish Nationalism is seen as left wing yet English Nationalism is right wing. The Greek, left wing government got elected on an anti austerity ticket and looked what happened there.

. You never fail to amaze. You've the same queen but you've more faces than the town hall clock. I went to a country that I admire more than the UK for family values and decent people ... I moved back to the country of my birth through patriotism at a time that I truly believed we might seize our destiny in our own hands and move away from the shit that comes from the south. Nothing to do with the people... As I said 99 % of guys I met here (including you skippy) are spot on but we deserve our own path without a royal family that is neither useful or wanted

Shame the majority of your fellow countrymen didn't agree with you.

. You never fail to amaze. You've the same queen but you've more faces than the town hall clock. I went to a country that I admire more than the UK for family values and decent people ... I moved back to the country of my birth through patriotism at a time that I truly believed we might seize our destiny in our own hands and move away from the shit that comes from the south. Nothing to do with the people... As I said 99 % of guys I met here (including you skippy) are spot on but we deserve our own path without a royal family that is neither useful or wanted

 

 

I like to give you a rev Jazza like I do all Scotsmen. Plenty comes in the opposite direction I assure you. I have familiy in Newton Mearns and work with many Jocks down here. I harangued the lot of em when the referendum was on - mainly with the 'If they let us English vote it would be a landslide to fuck you off. A millstone around our necks for centuries'. A few flicked vee's and mild insults but also lots of laughs and good humour. Stick around and don't take things too seriously pal. We've been feighting for centuries but still manage to be mates.

 

Wholeheartedly disagree with your appraisal of the Royal Family and, surprisingly enough, I don't like your  politics either. Wouldn't stop me buying thee a pint at a BWFC game though. 

Imagine if that redneck luddite William Wallace had not had his arse sent to all corners of our wonderful country, and in another life what his fellow savages would have done with all that oil?

 

My guess is they'd fucking drink it.

Imagine if that redneck luddite William Wallace had not had his arse sent to all corners of our wonderful country, and in another life what his fellow savages would have done with all that oil?

 

My guess is they'd fucking drink it.

 

 

......................or deep fry Mars Bars in it?

Or inject it.