sorry but royal farce waste of £££ , oh did i say i dont give a flying **** about them   . gov cutting everything and they spent millions on this 

It is quite trivial to criticism them - they're old fashioned and totally go against any form of meritocracy. Having said that they're essentially just ceremonial anyway, we can use them as ambassadors for trade/business and they draw in a lot of tourists to London.

Overall we profit a lot more from having them - tourism alone more than pays for them tbh... They cost us about a quid a year - for 2 million brits who had an awesome day out watching the royal wedding I'd say that's quite good value - to have the same euphoric experience in a big crowd at a big event you'd be talking about paying more like £50 for a concert or day pass to a festival, or going to see a football match - yet we've paid on average £1 each for a bunch of ponces to put on uniforms and get in coaches and entertain us for a day - I can't really fault that tbh...

Could say a similar thing about the Olympics tbh... lots of tax payers money being wasted so some people can run around a track - though we'd hope that the net effect on the economy will be +ve. The Olympics costs more and is more of a gamble than the royal family - with the Royal we *know* there will be a whole bunch of Americans and Japs over in London every summer, taking pics infront of the palace, staying in expensive hotels and basically bunging a load of $$$ into our economy.

Overall we profit a lot more from having them
 They cost us about a quid a year 1

well I dont profit.
I want my quid back.

aaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrggggggghhhhhhhhhh im sick of hearing about the royal bloody wedding!!!! its just essentially a rich git marrying some posh bint (who, no matter how much people say it is not a commoner, everyone seems to forget the fact that her parents own a multi bazillion pound business). i couldn't care less. imo all the monarchy is good for these days is tourism. they don't even do what a monarchy should do and actually rule the damn country. i say out with the monarchy and lets just have a president.

I think Dave nailed it tbh. 

I didn't watch it as i was busy helping someone fix their car, but i caught the highlights and it reminded me of days old.

aaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrggggggghhhhhhhhhh im sick of hearing about the royal bloody wedding!!!! its just essentially a rich git marrying some posh bint (who, no matter how much people say it is not a commoner, everyone seems to forget the fact that her parents own a multi bazillion pound business). i couldn't care less. imo all the monarchy is good for these days is tourism. they don't even do what a monarchy should do and actually rule the damn country. i say out with the monarchy and lets just have a president.

what they mean by commoner is that she wasnt born into the upper class system. So what if her parent got a multimillion pound company. Theyve worked hard for that.

Quote from: Dave on May 01, 2011, 22:02:56 PM

Quote from: chaotic_uk on May 01, 2011, 21:16:41 PM

so £20 million for the wedding and £37+ million for the queen a year is good value ?

Yes it is actually.

In other news footballers and pop stars earn more than nurses and charity workers.

so you would say the banks are doing a good job and did not cause the mess we are in also ? , sorry but some people should live in the real world where it's dog eat dog just to survive

Where did I mention banks?

FWIW I do live in the real world - what makes you think that your world is any more real than mine?