Palace Renovations

I wish I could apply for £370m for renovations to my house over the next 10 years.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-38025513
How much are the royals worth again?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-38025513
How much are the royals worth again?
0
Posts
It's not a bad deal.
You can get grants for houses - I got free insulation the other year - its really made a difference. No hassle getting it at all.
and so would the £365m renovation bill :?
Yepp, I would go with this. Sick to death of seeing the dim chinless wonders and their tarts in the press. Yes, the property would still need renovating but I would rather see that as an investment in the country's estate...than just money given away to the royal's country estate!
Seen Lenin lately?
Edit: That was in response to Fat Daddy
I bet you could make more income from selling entry tickets to the royal estate than you would lose otherwise.
X-post with above
I would rather see the same two but with egg and spoons...
Buckingham Palace without the Monarchy would do ok I am sure .. it would be a like the less impressive Versaillis
But, ok so they cost £300m and make £500m ... get rid of them then, you are only loosing £200m a year ..... my point was they don't actually cost us that much as they bring in money as well as chew through it.
Personally I like having stuff like a royal Family .. its part of British heritage and arguably a significant part of what makes England an international destination but if the rest of the UK wants to go ahead and get rid of it I am not going to argue about it. ... Just be amused when people start banging on that Immigration is ruining our culture without realising that it was infact them that added to it
And here we have the most privileged family in the land. Who want for nothing, now getting a £300m+ makeover for their shack. Perhaps they should watch the news more often and see what is happening to the real people.
Can we have a referendum on whether we should become a Republic?
If we do have a referendum on that one, can we have a timescale mentioned this time round??
That's the crux.
What do we expect though after this cracker: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11403544
Good grief. She's got more neck than a giraffe.
And in answer to time scale on a Republic Referendum. I'd say a fortnight is plenty time to pack belongings and move into just one of their many residences. That's just Queen and Phil the Greek. Then the vacant properties can be used as centres for the homeless.
The rest of the hangers on I'll give 3 months to sort out a private house to move into. Chazza could move into one of the places down at Poundbury.
Pinnacle Monzonite
Part of the anti-growth coalition
Remember Fred the Shred and RBS ? 45 Billion they got off the tax payer.
That would have gone some way toward the housing crisis.
Brexit is just going to cost us billions more whilst the people who lied to create it have fantastic salaries and plenty of options for extra cash.
by the time the renovations have been done and trebled in cost, charlie will be there and he is lets face it, he is an idiot.
His contribution to the homeless is that twee village down in Dorset ffs!
These buildings and their history are what differentiates Great Britain and we only benefit as a country (tourism) from maintaining and selling that history to the world. Why would anyone visit Windsor Castle or Buckingham Palace if we no longer have the Royal family creating the intrigue for tourists.
Turning the UK into a republic would be a constitutional ballache, and the costs wouldn't disappear, as rjsterry has illustrated.
The ultimate state-funded celebrity.
I suppose if you had millions of visitors coming to your town from all over the world because of your house, you'd have good grounds to ask for that...
Most likely you'd struggle to fight a demolition order, should your property get in the way of HS3
More seriously, given the fairly polarised nature of politics in this country, a non partisan head of state is far more likely to be an effective representative of the entire country.
Pinnacle Monzonite
Part of the anti-growth coalition