29 million Americans watched the Royal Wedding in the US, 18 million in the UK. I was going to humbly ask the Queen to take us back but upon further consideration have changed my mind. I bet when the country started we had at least 10% of the country still loyal to the crown.
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/harry-apos-wedding-got-higher-170700461.html
Cmon man..
US population is 325M compared to 65M for UK
Cmonman wrote:
Cmon man..
US population is 325M compared to 65M for UK
Exactly! The USA is about five times larger than the UK so yes, there would be more viewers from the Colonies watching.
I venture a lot more than 10 percent of the population were loyal to the Crown come the Revolution in the 1770’s - I bet they never teach in American schools that the British colonies of North America were the lightest taxed, most liberally governed (in the classical small government sense), freest, most prosperous, and most equitable portions of the entire eighteenth century world.
And yet you still revolted against British rule!
Actually the whole Royal family cost us surprisingly little, compared to the cost of the American version.
Such pretension as well - I recall a few years back, when Obama visited Brussels for ONE day arriving with a 900 strong entourage, and a 45 vehicles motorcade needing 3 cargo planes apart from Airforce One.
On a 24 hour visit!
Okay, he’s the president, but I’ve never heard anything about the Office of the First Lady?
We were intrigued to see after accompanying the president to meet with Northern Ireland youth, Air Force Two had to be on hand to fly Mrs Obama, and her two kids the hundred miles from Belfast to Dublin for a two day visit.
It was later revealed that 2 day visit cost US taxpayers $7,921,638.66!
By comparison, flying our whole Royal Family around for that year, costs we taxpayers $5,194,347.37.
And don’t forget our Queen is also the constitutional Queen of Canada, Australia, New Zealand, The Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Grenada, Jamaica, Papua New Guinea, St Lucia, St, Vincent, the Solomon Islands and Tuvalu.
HRH wrote:
I venture a lot more than 10 percent of the population were loyal to the Crown come the Revolution in the 1770’s - I bet they never teach in American schools that the British colonies of North America were the lightest taxed, most liberally governed (in the classical small government sense), freest, most prosperous, and most equitable portions of the entire eighteenth century world.
And yet you still revolted against British rule!
You don't win hearts by invading peoples homes and eating their food.
HRH wrote:And don’t forget our Queen is also the constitutional Queen of Canada, ...We tolerate the little old lady here, but she is barely recognized anywhere in Canada as having any kind of official (non-ceremonial) role in our governance. Her official representative in government, the governor-general, is in practice a completely ceremonial role connecting us to our colonial past. The only occasion in my lifetime when a governor-general *almost* tried to flex some authority was when Michelle Jean, 6-8 years ago, did some serious legal research to see whether she could prevent then-PM (Adolph) Harper from proroguing (closing) parliament in order to avoid some legislative debate he found inconvenient. That was our closest recent brush with dictatorship, and the GG had no legal authority (according to our parliamentary and legal traditions) to stop the madman...
HRH wrote:
I venture a lot more than 10 percent of the population were loyal to the Crown come the Revolution in the 1770’s - I bet they never teach in American schools that the British colonies of North America were the lightest taxed, most liberally governed (in the classical small government sense), freest, most prosperous, and most equitable portions of the entire eighteenth century world.
And yet you still revolted against British rule!
Actually the whole Royal family cost us surprisingly little, compared to the cost of the American version.
Such pretension as well - I recall a few years back, when Obama visited Brussels for ONE day arriving with a 900 strong entourage, and a 45 vehicles motorcade needing 3 cargo planes apart from Airforce One.
On a 24 hour visit!
Okay, he’s the president, but I’ve never heard anything about the Office of the First Lady?
We were intrigued to see after accompanying the president to meet with Northern Ireland youth, Air Force Two had to be on hand to fly Mrs Obama, and her two kids the hundred miles from Belfast to Dublin for a two day visit.
It was later revealed that 2 day visit cost US taxpayers $7,921,638.66!
By comparison, flying our whole Royal Family around for that year, costs we taxpayers $5,194,347.37.
And don’t forget our Queen is also the constitutional Queen of Canada, Australia, New Zealand, The Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Grenada, Jamaica, Papua New Guinea, St Lucia, St, Vincent, the Solomon Islands and Tuvalu.
The property ownership scheme that helps fund the Crown is a pretty slick deal, when you think about it.
The Royal Family is no better than a family of mobsters. It sucks its sustenance from the public coffers, enriching itself greatly at the expense of poor taxpaying citizens. It operates not as a meritocracy, but through strict nepotism and strategic alliances. And its strength is a rough measure of the lack of civilization in a particular culture. To be completely clear, we are not suggesting that people should "pay less attention" to the Royal Family, or that the UK should reduce the amount of money it spends on this obscene relic of a brutal monarchical past. We are suggesting that the Royal Family should, as an institution, be completely abolished, and that its remaining members be imprisoned and forced to work for the remainder of their lives to, in some token way, repay the public for all of these years of financial support. Perhaps by making license plates, or breaking rocks.
http://gawker.com/imprison-the-royal-family-and-abolish-the-monarchy-867576501
I'd be willing to bet that more Brits watched the FA Cup final between Chelsea and Man U than watched the "royal wedding".
Next time, I'll research before I reply.
I guess more people in Britian DID watch the "Royal Wedding". It was still pretty close though.
HRH wrote:
By comparison, flying our whole Royal Family around for that year, costs we taxpayers $5,194,347.37.
The reason you taxpayers only had to fork out a few million travel expenses for the royal family is that they anyways own half of central London and large swathes of the country as their personal fiefdom (Crown Estate). This just about covers the costs for polo matches, tropical retreats, armies of flunkies and arrays of hats.
MeHereYouWhere?! wrote:
Next time, I'll research before I reply.
Good idea, although if everyone here did that there'd be far fewer posts.
canucklehead here... wrote:
HRH wrote:And don’t forget our Queen is also the constitutional Queen of Canada, ...
We tolerate the little old lady here, but she is barely recognized anywhere in Canada as having any kind of official (non-ceremonial) role in our governance. Her official representative in government, the governor-general, is in practice a completely ceremonial role connecting us to our colonial past. The only occasion in my lifetime when a governor-general *almost* tried to flex some authority was when Michelle Jean, 6-8 years ago, did some serious legal research to see whether she could prevent then-PM (Adolph) Harper from proroguing (closing) parliament in order to avoid some legislative debate he found inconvenient. That was our closest recent brush with dictatorship, and the GG had no legal authority (according to our parliamentary and legal traditions) to stop the madman...
We do a lot more than tolerate (as you say). The majority of Canadian's love the Queen.
MeHereYouWhere?! wrote:
I'd be willing to bet that more Brits watched the FA Cup final between Chelsea and Man U than watched the "royal wedding".
I think you are correct! I know I watched a great triumph of the Blues over that Red Army from the north.
How long until this odd couple relocates to LA?
Don't speak on my behalf. wrote:
The majority of Canadian's love the Queen.
QE2 or Trudeau?
Heavily promoted in the US by globalists pushing multiculturalism. Its been an orgy around the awesomeness of black/white race mixing the last 10 yrs. Hooked in a lot of dimwits on both sides from what i can see.
Markle is an American.
Man, she has long teeth.
MeHereYouWhere?! wrote:
Next time, I'll research before I reply.
I guess more people in Britian DID watch the "Royal Wedding". It was still pretty close though.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/05/20/bbc-wins-ratings-battle-royal-wedding-becomes-watched-tv-event/
HRH wrote:
I venture a lot more than 10 percent of the population were loyal to the Crown come the Revolution in the 1770’s - I bet they never teach in American schools that the British colonies of North America were the lightest taxed, most liberally governed (in the classical small government sense), freest, most prosperous, and most equitable portions of the entire eighteenth century world.
And yet you still revolted against British rule!
Actually the whole Royal family cost us surprisingly little, compared to the cost of the American version.
Such pretension as well - I recall a few years back, when Obama visited Brussels for ONE day arriving with a 900 strong entourage, and a 45 vehicles motorcade needing 3 cargo planes apart from Airforce One.
On a 24 hour visit!
Okay, he’s the president, but I’ve never heard anything about the Office of the First Lady?
We were intrigued to see after accompanying the president to meet with Northern Ireland youth, Air Force Two had to be on hand to fly Mrs Obama, and her two kids the hundred miles from Belfast to Dublin for a two day visit.
It was later revealed that 2 day visit cost US taxpayers $7,921,638.66!
By comparison, flying our whole Royal Family around for that year, costs we taxpayers $5,194,347.37.
And don’t forget our Queen is also the constitutional Queen of Canada, Australia, New Zealand, The Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Grenada, Jamaica, Papua New Guinea, St Lucia, St, Vincent, the Solomon Islands and Tuvalu.
What is your point? Is is that our government spends too much? If so, I agree.
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