- 19 May 2018 23:30
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People come to London to see the Changing of the Guards at Buckingham Palace, so in the end they contribute to British coffers.
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Rugoz wrote:
In dollars using a generous exchange rate
https://www.republic.org.uk/sites/defau ... 2017_0.pdf
Kaiserschmarrn wrote:He actually looks a lot like Harry.
B0ycey wrote:Do you think people don't visit Bastille anymore or something?
Rich wrote:We accept the unconditional surrender of the British Monarchy to Cultural Marxism. We have seen nothing like this since the King of England last made homage to the King of France for his French domains.
blackjack21 wrote:
It's just a square. The Bastille was destroyed.
Kaiserschmarrn wrote:Considering your infatuation with Macron you should actually be able to relate to other people's admiration of royal families.
Regarding Russia and Germany, how were their transitions into totalitarian states better than had they become constitutional monarchies? It's actually difficult to imagine much worse outcomes than the bolsheviks and nazis that followed the Tsar and the Kaiser.
To add to PC's list, Belgium and Spain (to cover the sunny beaches ) are also constitutional monarchies in Europe. On average these countries offer some of the best places to live even by European standards. Note that I'm not saying that constitutional monarchies are necessarily a cause for the high living standards, but that people who value continuity and stability will tend to keep their royal houses and are also more likely to be good places to live. The idea of changing the political system of a country when it clearly works very well just for the sake of it should be discredited by now.
It should also really tell us something that all republicans seem to have left is stirring resentment and their intellectually lazy appeals to costs and "tax dodgers".
B0ycey wrote:To be fair, Macron was elected. I have no problem with people admiring the Royal Family. I accept free will. What I don't agree with is born privilege. Give up their tax payers hand outs and powers and they can keep their estate and titles for all I care. They can even continue to pose in front of cameras.What is wrong with being born into 'privilege' or inheriting wealth and power hereditary?
To some extent you have a strong point. But on the flip side, the monarchies created the conditions for facisism to begin with. So really all this proves is the success of a nation is down to economics and not tradition. And as history proves, monarchies aren't exactly saintly figures.Nazism arose out of Weimar Republic in Germany, Wilhelm II abdicated in 1918 and was in exile in Holland by that point. Similarly in Russia Nicholas II abdicated and it was the republican government in its infancy that allowed radical communist elements of Bolshevism to arise, that eventually toppled the government.
Albert wrote:What is wrong with being born into 'privilege'
B0ycey wrote:It isn't earned Albert. The power you have shouldn't be dictated by which mother you come out of. I believe in democratic values. Monarchies are dictatorships in all but name.Children inheriting their parent's wealth is not something that they have earned either, wealth also translates to power. So in your mind that is unfair as well.
Albert wrote:I think the guy ruined the whole mood of the wedding, lol. "Sit there, will get you married eventually". What an idiot.
Good let the upper class feel some of that "progress" that they have been subjecting all of us too.
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