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9 hours ago, chrisp65 said:

Arrest ‘prince’ Andrew.

 

I’m familiar with the phrase “nobody is above the law” but I have a feeling he is. As his mum is head of the justice system she’ll keep him out of an interrogation room or prison cell.

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5 hours ago, Genie said:

I’m familiar with the phrase “nobody is above the law” but I have a feeling he is. As his mum is head of the justice system she’ll keep him out of an interrogation room or prison cell.

Quite like the idea of the 'Greek' and the boys busting him out of clink 

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16 hours ago, chrisp65 said:

Would have got away with it too, if it wasn’t for those pesky junctions

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Υποτίθεται ότι θα έκανες τις ματωμένες πόρτες!!!

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13 minutes ago, mjmooney said:

I see that taxpayers are having to give them a coronavirus bailout because the value of their property portfolio has gone down. 

Doesn’t the Queen have hundreds of millions of personal wealth? What does she spend it on? Is her entire existence covered by the tax payer?

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3 hours ago, Genie said:

Doesn’t the Queen have hundreds of millions of personal wealth? What does she spend it on? Is her entire existence covered by the tax payer?

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Boris Johnson’s government has confirmed it will top up the Queen’s income following a significant slump in the Crown Estate’s revenue during the coronavirus crisis.  

The royal family takes in rental receipts from shops in London’s Regent Street, alongside malls and retail parks around the country – but the value of its portfolio has fallen by more than £500m since the pandemic hit.

The Treasury said it would provide the estate with extra money to meet any shortfall in profits and make sure the Queen’s sovereign grant remains at its current level.

“In the event of a reduction in the Crown Estate’s profits, the sovereign grant is set at the same level as the previous year,” a spokesperson said told The Independent.

“The revenue from the Crown Estate helps pay for our vital public services – over the last 10 years it has returned a total of £2.8bn to the Exchequer. The sovereign grant funds the official business of the monarchy, and does not provide a private income to any member of the royal family.”

More details on the next sovereign grant are expected to be set out on Friday – but legislation governing the formula prevents the overall amount given to the Queen from ever being allowed to fall.

Graham Smith, of the anti-monarchy campaign group Republic, described it as a “golden ratchet”, adding: “Once the grant goes up it can never come down, and the taxpayer loses out.”

Robert Palmer, the head of Tax Justice UK, added: “This royal bailout will be tough to stomach for people who love the Queen but have lost their jobs and businesses during the pandemic.”

Any profits made by the Crown Estate are passed to the Treasury which, in turn, hands 25 per cent of the profits back to the Queen through the sovereign grant.  

However, the Crown Estate announced last week a fall in the value of its rental portfolio by £55m to £13.4bn – a drop of 1.2 per cent.  

An agreement with the Treasury means the estate has begun making “staggered” revenue payments to the government.

Dan Labbad, the Crown Estate’s chief executive, said: “The current economic and market disruption has led us to take the precaution, with the agreement of the Treasury, of implementing a staged process for the payment of the whole of our net revenue profit.”

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4 hours ago, mjmooney said:

I see that taxpayers are having to give them a coronavirus bailout because the value of their property portfolio has gone down. 

My share portfolio has dropped in value by 50%

I await my bailout. I must be next in line after Lizzy. 

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1 hour ago, Xela said:

My share portfolio has dropped in value by 50%

I await my bailout. I must be next in line after Lizzy. 

Im not brave enough to check my pension. It was going down year on year due to the prolonged low interest rate predictions. I’ll probably owe Zurich money at this rate.

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11 minutes ago, Genie said:

Im not brave enough to check my pension. It was going down year on year due to the prolonged low interest rate predictions. I’ll probably owe Zurich money at this rate.

Surprisingly my pension is higher than at the start of the year! It tanked in March - think March 23rd was my worst day... my pot dropped about 35% at the lowest but its pretty much back where it was now. Obviously i've made 6 months worth of payments so in real terms its probably a couple of points down but a lot better than I expected. Its currently invested in fairly low risk passive funds. 

 

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Pretty interesting one this (mainly for Australians, but also I think very telling):

A letter has emerged from Charles telling John Kerr he 'did the right thing' in sacking PM Gough Whitlam. The reason it is somewhat significant is not, I think, that it's any kind of surprise that he felt this way, but that it's further evidence that he's much worse than the Queen at pretending to be 'above politics'. The following paragraphs from the article in the tweet are absolutely straight, but nevertheless very funny:

'But the Australian Monarchist League said there was no political intent behind Prince Charles’s words.

“When you read the substance [of the letter], you find a young man writing compassionately in the hope that the incessant attacks on the governor general would not cause him to become depressed,” said the group’s national chairman, Philip Benwell.

“However, it would have been better had his royal highness not said ‘what you did last year was right’ as it leads to people to assume that these words represent an involvement in Australian politics, which was clearly not the intention when you read the entirety of the letter.”'

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