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Zekkyou on 20 December 2013
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the2real4mafol said:
Kasz216 said:


I dunno.  I imagine the Royal Family is a lot like college football.

It takes in more money they it costs.

I mean.  The Crown estates brings in more then the soverign grant...

and that's not even counting the fact that the minute you take away the monarchy tourism is going to take a huge hit... as it being the last living monarchy (rich white people) care about is a big tourist draw... and the various royal merchandise and branding on various stuff.

I don't really buy that argument that monarchy drives tourism here. There are so many areas for tourists to see just in London alone (let alone the rest of the UK) that i don't see why one family matters. Tourism won't stop or even go down if England became a republic. 

People come here for our history, our culture, our landmarks. That won't change if we abolished the monarchy. 

I suppose the only thing is that the monarchy is considered "British" when in reality they are all foreigners themselves anyway. Controversial, but i consider them scourgers as well. If people want to single out the poles, romanians, somalis etc as lazy scourgers then the royal family should be obvious especially with the OTT news coverage the royals get. The fact the media when on and on when that baby was born makes me despise them. They are just humans like us, why treat them as gods?

Why should they get all that money for being born into the Windsor family name and nothing else? They should have to work like everyone else. Even if they have a positive impact on tourism, they are such an antiquated and old fashion thing. Do they really have a place in English society anymore? I don't think so

Of course they increase our tourism. People travel to other countries just to see abandoned castle, having an actual queen living in it is somewhat of a big draw in :P You just have to see all the royal family related merchandise in london to know they benefit tourism. But even if we didn't make a penny of them from it, we still make more money of their land than we pay them. If we were to stop paying them money, everyone's taxes would go up a small bit, not down. They would still be just as well off. More so in fact.

The video Hig posted explains it all perfectly. I couldn't care less about the royal family and their lives, but having them around does bring an extra tone of colour to our culture.

I do agree people shouldn't benefit from just their name, but that's hardly a problem exclusive to them. To be honest Harry and William do a lot more good in the world than the majority of other kids born into rich families.