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    Abolish the monarchy. We send the royal family £67 million per year.

    Let’s fund our NHS instead.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Halgurd View Post
    Abolish the monarchy. We send the royal family £67 million per year.

    Let’s fund our NHS instead.

    LeT'S fUnD tHe NhS

    -classic left-wing rebuttal to anything they don't like that costs more than a penny. If I pointed out the cost of pride parades and said 'let's fund the NHS' (yes, public parades cost taxpayer money), you'd call me a homophobe despite probably agreeing that the NHS is more important. See also: the liberal arts and state-subsidised gender studies degrees.

    Anyway, using the same source you just used, the Royal Family are a net financial benefit to the UK, providing a balance of well in excess of £1.1 billion annually:

    https://www.statista.com/chart/6859/...e-uks-economy/

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    Monachy. I don't the idea of Britain being a another boring republic in Europe. One thing I like about the UK is the long chain of institutional and political tradition that stretches to the Middle ages, unlike France or Germany that was forced to change its political history by revolutions or wars and invasions

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    Quote Originally Posted by Longbowman View Post
    LeT'S fUnD tHe NhS

    -classic left-wing rebuttal to anything they don't like that costs more than a penny. If I pointed out the cost of pride parades and said 'let's fund the NHS' (yes, public parades cost taxpayer money), you'd call me a homophobe despite probably agreeing that the NHS is more important. See also: the liberal arts and state-subsidised gender studies degrees.

    Anyway, using the same source you just used, the Royal Family are a net financial benefit to the UK, providing a balance of well in excess of £1.1 billion annually:

    https://www.statista.com/chart/6859/...e-uks-economy/

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    Lets not forget about the benefits of Tourism it generates

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    Quote Originally Posted by Longbowman View Post
    LeT'S fUnD tHe NhS

    -classic left-wing rebuttal to anything they don't like that costs more than a penny. If I pointed out the cost of pride parades and said 'let's fund the NHS' (yes, public parades cost taxpayer money), you'd call me a homophobe despite probably agreeing that the NHS is more important. See also: the liberal arts and state-subsidised gender studies degrees.

    Anyway, using the same source you just used, the Royal Family are a net financial benefit to the UK, providing a balance of well in excess of £1.1 billion annually:

    https://www.statista.com/chart/6859/...e-uks-economy/

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    loooool calm down man it was a pun on boris' bus

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    Quote Originally Posted by Synapsid View Post
    Lets not forget about the benefits of Tourism it generates
    These tourism benefits are a fallacy anyway.

    The same benefits of tourism will come to this country whether there is a royal family or not. It’s like saying the royal palaces in France don’t generate any tourist income because there is no monarchy there anymore.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Halgurd View Post
    These tourism benefits are a fallacy anyway.

    The same benefits of tourism will come to this country whether there is a royal family or not. It’s like saying the royal palaces in France don’t generate any tourist income because there is no monarchy there anymore.
    I don't want Britain to become a republic period. I don't another tricolor rootless republic in world, the monarchy is part of this county's history

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    Quote Originally Posted by Longbowman View Post
    Monarchist til I die.

    Primary reasoning: division of power
    The royal family plays a very minor role in the separation of powers, and the separation of powers will exist whether there is a royal family or not. The monarch plays minor traditional symbolic roles politically e.g granting royal assent.

    All the branches of government provide checks and balances on each other. Nothing in your post has any correlation with why the monarchy should remain. I understand all too well though, most British people have an irrational love for the monarchy.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Synapsid View Post
    I don't want Britain to become a republic period. I don't another tricolor rootless republic in world, the monarchy is part of this county's history
    Many countries have had a history of monarchy, and many countries have benefited from their downfall. Just as an example, Russia abolished the Tsar and became an economic and military superpower as a result.

    Don’t be afraid of it my friend.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Halgurd View Post
    The royal family plays a very minor role in the separation of powers, and the separation of powers will exist whether there is a royal family or not. The monarch plays minor traditional symbolic roles politically e.g granting royal assent.

    All the branches of government provide checks and balances on each other. Nothing in your post has any correlation with why the monarchy should remain. I understand all too well though, most British people have an irrational love for the monarchy.
    I don't think you read my post very well, but your OP on this thread has already undermined your credibility to the point I don't need to go over it. Sufficed to say that I considered the issue - specifically - beyond the face-value de jure powers of the monarchy, which I barely mentioned, if at all.
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    Quote Originally Posted by zhaoyun View Post
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