Richard Conway wrote:

John Rumm wrote:

Tim S wrote:

Besides, the royals surrendered a great deal of land in exchange for the
civil list, so it's not like they are total spongers.


What was the estimated cost published recently? 64p/year per person
IIRC. Sounds like very good value to me!


Is that figure derived simply by dividing the cost of their upkeep by
the number of people?

Can't remember if that was per adult or per adult tax payer... note
however it was an annual figure, so we probably spend more money reading
uk.d-i-y than we do keeping the royals!

in this country who don't pay tax - and not only are us taxpayers paying
for their upkeep we are also paying the 64p for the upkeep of the royal
family too.

The costs however ignore the money they generate from tourism, plus the
savings we get from having them (rather than tony and his cronies) act
as overseas goodwill ambassadores etc.

(IIRC Tony and family use the royal flight far more frequently than the
queen )


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Cheers,

John.

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