Poor baby - run home to mummy!

Luckily we have. Royal figurehead and a parliament. That's worked out OK.

Well besides not paying corporation tax or capital gains tax the RF manage to dodge inheritance tax as well.. This means that while Mrs Nobody will pay 40% tax on anything over £325,000 she leaves to her family, the RF can will their money to the monarch and pay nothing. So the late Queen mum left £14million in trust to her daughter and paid no tax.
But hey they deserve it

Thankyou for pointing that out Alegrias , maybe some of us
who haven't been on this forum for as long as others still have something to say , maybe you need new ground then you wouldn't have to read repetitive arguements or maybe that is
why yours are so cynical . I wasn't intending to be 'original'
the anti royalists say the same stuff time and again and
your critism is never original, just repetitive

This thread started with a childish post and hey….. guess what

Well you can't blame a person for getting tired, can you halfpint1? The same old questions, again and again.

My criticism is repetitive because we keep getting asked the same questions. There's only one answer, whether people like it or not. We don't have to keep thinking up novel answers to questions just because people don't like the truth of the ones we give.

A quick search showed you've been on GN longer than me. Maybe we've just been ships that pass in the night before this, who knows?

I didn’t know one could search to find out how long a poster had been on this forum, creepy

I know, isn't it amazing Annie! ?

Sorry can’t agree Alegrias1 , I really can’t understand why anyone would want to do it

Anniebach

Sorry can’t agree Alegrias1 , I really can’t understand why anyone would want to do it

Obvious in relation to halfpint’s comment !

Welshwife

If there was a President of some sort they would presumably be for a fixed term - besides the running costs of State buildings - there is no guarantee that the person would be a good leader or not become a dictator as in a number of countries round the world.
People visit U.K. because they want to see the Queen etc and the pageantry that exists for some occasions. Britain would lose so much again. I know there are republicans and they will never change their minds and I have thought about it all and came to the conclusion that things are probably best left as they are.
If Charles becomes King he is likely to do environmentally good things and William is highly likely to be a moderniser. They do have their own sources of income and William is set to take over the Duchy estates.
I find having one regular election less with the years of speculation and electioneering and probably a very rich person winning is a big bonus - at least we know where we stand!

A British president would have rules with the job be above politics, that's fair, the queen and Charles are not above politics they can veto legislation and lobby ministers. A president would not have lots of State homes unlike RF A president would have one official residence and an office..
RF have no impact on tourism See Visit Britain. Tourists come here for many reasons. Charles went to a climate conference by jet causing damage to environment

Yes bet William can't wait to get hands on Duchy and over £20 million which should go to the treasury.

The Windsors are getting bigger extended families. We just need one Head of State a president Very clever and accomplished people are presidents and do a good job for their people not like the RF who don't do any good they are only in it for themselves they cost a fortune.

It will be good for Britain to have a democratically Elected Head of State instead of a secretive divisive undemocratic monarchy

Republic have done very well bringing about a debate with billboards around the country It's good to hear that mostly the young want a democratically Elected Head of State Its mainly the much older people who believe the myths of monarchy

I don’t read anything about him anymore. Sure the courts will sort it now. The Queen, has had more than her fare share of problems with some of her children, she deals with them her way.

Allsorts

I don’t read anything about him anymore. Sure the courts will sort it now. The Queen, has had more than her fare share of problems with some of her children, she deals with them her way.

That's great. Heaven forbid they should be subjected to the same laws and justice system as the rest of us. Isn't that the same as running back to mummy though??

Every time I see the title of this thread I feel irritated and I m NOT even a royalist

I dislike the title of this thread , I think the word Mummy is a most beautiful word and mocking the relationship between a
son/ daughter and mother is so wrong.

But it’s the Queen so why not mock.

I called my mother Mammy in my 50’s,

Message withdrawn at poster's request.

Was that meant to be a PM, Urmstongran?

I’m mortified. I’m out of practice using GN after many weeks away.
My sincere apologies - that was meant to be a p.m. to someone.

I’ve asked for my post to be deleted!
?

Yes Lizzie! Oh heck how daft am I?

Urmstongran

Yes Lizzie! Oh heck how daft am I?

Fortunately you didn’t say anything too revealing!

Wow!im seriously impressed Mods.
And on a Sunday too!
Thank you for sparing my blushes. A rookie mistake! ?

I recently asked HQ to tell me when I first posted, so I don’t even know how to find out how long I’ve been on here.
I should have asked Alegrias

While I had the ear of HQ, I did mention (for the umpteenth time) that the Search Function didn’t work for me and many others.
They sounded genuinely surprised

I hate the stupid title too. I’m on the verge of hiding the thread for that reason alone.

Alegrias1 explains her criticism is repetitive because some
questions are repeated .

The questions are certainly not as repetitive as the posts about
the Duchy of Cornwall .

I should have asked Alegrias

15th September 2020

Mystic Meg in my spare time, me.

HQ said the 20th!

www.gransnet.com/forums/chat/1284623-Im-new-here-Tell-me-about-GN?pg=2. Being bored I searched too, on Google, quite an amusing thread, as you were viewed with deep suspicion Fanny.