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Originally Posted by Dorothy Wood
All that pomp employs people at least. Right?
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True but thats wages we are paying for so that someone looks after liz's corgis 24/7 for example, that could be going to pay teachers/nurses etc.
I am of the opinion that we dont need such a massive monarchy operation, people would still visit because of the history. Scale it all down,big time.
And i realise that its not the royal family driving all this jubilee stuff, most of the main members seem to have an awareness of their position and an awareness that they are priveliged.
Its obviously the goverment trying to make a grand statement about this, it would be awesome if the queen came out and said something like "Instead of blowing all this money on celebrations, i'll have a quiet night in with the family to celebrate and you can give all the money to unicef" or something