In message snipped-for-privacy@mid.individual.net>, at 14:00:34 on Thu, 26 Feb 2026, Bernard Peek snipped-for-privacy@shrdlu.com remarked:
Given they've already signed over all the revenues from the Crown Estates to the government, there's very little reason for the Windsors to keep up any future involvement. They could simply retire to their private estates and start charging money for opening supermarkets and things, rather than doing it for free.
"[T]hey've already signed over all the revenues from the Crown Estates to the government" in consideration of receiving (a smaller sum) from the Exchequer each year for the expenses of running the Monarchy.
If that funding were to cease, which it presumably would do if the Monarchy were abolished, the Crown Estate income would consequently come back to the family, the arrangement under which it was assigned to the Treasury having determined.
There would be nothing to support any other outcome.
Nothing that would comply with the Yooman Rites Act, at least.
Thus the cost *saving* of abolishing the monarchy would be about *minus* a billion a year. I wonder how any anti-monarchists realise that?
Most hatrd left rallyinmg cries are simplistic knee-jerk emotional proposition that always end up the opposite. Ergo Blair 'graduates earn twice as much so we will give everyone a degree' Or 'raising minimum wage will make poor people richer' except its Chinese poor people they really mean...
Still means no respect, though, the way it's used these days at any rate.
Did he claim that back off the taxpayers, too?
Exactly my point.
No idea, but if there was an invoice it would probably have been made out to J. Epstein
The mission of the Marxist-Leninist useful idiots isn’t related to the reality of the situation - the goal is destabilisation of society.
It goes beyond mere destabilisation, Spike. They want to destroy all the established institutions and start over with their own twisted vision of how reality should be, taking their inspiration from the Bolsheviks. And anyone who's read history will know how that worked out....
yeah. Back in the 60s that's what the commie students said and I laughed at them.
The last 60 years they have penetrated everything.
It will be interesting to see what happens when
- Iran goes down
- Russia goes down
- Reform take over government. I might even live to see it...
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