In the media headlines today news that HMQueenie costs £40 million a year. Hoorah say the headlines, that's only 66p per person. Super value.
What they don't say is that Queenie's police and security costs us over £100 million a year, or that she gets another £15 million of our money per year for property maintenance. No, they don't mention the £15 million, the headlines on property maintenance merely say that the wiring in Buckingham Palace hasn't been renewed since before she became Majestied and that she's very worried about it. That, and some roof repairs will cost £4 million and she wants us to pay extra for it.
So how many years has she had the equivalent of £15 million for buildings upkeep and not spent one sodding penny on making sure that the Buck House sockets aren't going to up and bite some poor footman or perhaps some American tourist paying through the nose to look at stuff with some vague royal association?
Then again, the media hasn't mentioned the hundreds of millions spent on what they (surely ironically) call the Civil List - the bucketsful of money handed out to Queenie's kids, grandchildren, cousins, 2nd cousins, 3rd cousins twice removed etc etc who also have security costs, property maintenance costs, jaunts in government helicopter costs to impress their latest squeeze, hire of Nazi uniforms for dressing up games, polo ponies, etc etc etc.
Never mind, just remember that tourists only come to Britain in hopes of seeing a regally radiant smile. I mean come on, if it weren't for Queenie Britain would be as bereft of tourists as Paris and Rome.
Tho we would all be 66p + the unmentioned add-ons a year better off.
Okay. Off with her head and gimme my money back.
PS June 28 In today's paper:
Queen's £22000 Yankee
Glasgow Daily Record - 2 hours ago
THE public spent £22000 on sending the Queen to the races by helicopter, figures have revealed.
Glasgow Daily Record - 2 hours ago
THE public spent £22000 on sending the Queen to the races by helicopter, figures have revealed.
1 comment:
I've never had a problem with the queen Fairy and if you have read some of my previous posts on the royal family I say she is truly regal, being royal as far as I'm concerned is to be above reproach and what the queen has spawned is far from that so in my opinion our monarchy should stop with her, tourists are not hell bent on seeing the queen what they come here for is to feel our history and visit our historic buildings of which we have very many if they on the off chance see the queen then they see that as a bonus, so to say she pulls in loads of tourists is way off beam.
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