Royal Weddings

[George 1978]

Re: Royal Weddings

This is one point of view but how about spending this money on nurses or the homeless or something useful.

I do think that doctors, nurses, the police, teachers and other people who serve our communities deserve to have money spent on them, but at the same time, we do have a right to celebrate what is good about our country - Christmas costs money every year when it comes to what we buy - presents, food, parties etc, and people don't stop being ill at Christmas, neither does crime stop being committed then - one could argue that Christmas is a special event in the same bracket as a Royal Wedding is.

I know that these days we have very little to celebrate about life in general, and I am talking personally as well as generally - it is nice to get these welcome diversions from what we think of as normal routine.

[tex]

Re: Royal Weddings

An average of 67p to the taxpayer (as I saw mentioned in a Sunday newspaper a few years ago) is good value for money as far as I am concerned.

This is one point of view but how about spending this money on nurses or the homeless or something useful.

[George 1978]

Re: Royal Weddings

Two million pounds spent on security for fridays wedding, this is a massive amount of money which could be better spent

An average of 67p to the taxpayer (as I saw mentioned in a Sunday newspaper a few years ago) is good value for money as far as I am concerned.

[tex]

Re: Royal Weddings

But who's paying for these lash weddings?

The tax payer?

Two million pounds spent on security for fridays wedding, this is a massive amount of money which could be better spent

[George 1978]

Re: Royal Weddings

And now Fergie is going to be a Mother in Law! (Well, almost).

Best wishes to Princess Eugenie - I shall be watching that This Morning special...

[George 1978]

Re: Royal Weddings

I have always thought that weekday weddings were more special than weekend ones - I mean, Saturdays are usually the day when Mr and Mrs Public get married on, rather than Royalty I have always thought.

Harry and Meghan's will be on a Saturday as we now know, just like Anne and Tim Lawrence, Edward and Sophie, and Charles and Camilla.

And of course, apart from Andrew and Fergie, all the main Royal Weddings have either been special Bank Holidays or been on a Saturday.

[George 1978]

Re: Royal Weddings

Do you mean petitions which have failed to reach 10,000 for government response or 100,000 for consideration of debate, or which have reached the threshold but were rejected for debate by the overseeing committee?

Those that have failed because there is a similar petition existing or one that involves something that the UK government doesn't have any authority or control over.

[staffslad]

Re: Royal Weddings

Do you mean petitions which have failed to reach 10,000 for government response or 100,000 for consideration of debate, or which have reached the threshhold but were rejected for debate by the overseeing committee?

[George 1978]

Re: Royal Weddings

Nice idea !!

Any chance of you starting a petition demanding that they skip Charles , William and who ever else is in line and just make Harry the King as soon as possible !!

Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

I believe that they would say that the UK Parliament would have no control with regards to the succession to the throne.

I was having a look at some of the rejected petitions yesterday, and some of them made me laugh so much because of their implausibility.

[Zincubus]

Re: Royal Weddings

I have signed the parliament petition that asked for the Harry and Meghan wedding to be a Bank Holiday. There were so many rejected petitions on there asking for the same thing.

If we can have a Bank Holiday each year to see the final frames of snooker from the Crucible, then surely they can give us one for this.

Nice idea !!

Any chance of you starting a petition demanding that they skip Charles , William and who ever else is in line and just make Harry the King as soon as possible !!


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

[George 1978]

Re: Royal Weddings

I have signed the parliament petition that asked for the Harry and Meghan wedding to be a Bank Holiday. There were so many rejected petitions on there asking for the same thing.

If we can have a Bank Holiday each year to see the final frames of snooker from the Crucible, then surely they can give us one for this.

[staffslad]

Re: Royal Weddings

There will be increased tourism from the wedding plus VAT and other taxes from sales of wedding momentos etc, so whatever is spent from the public purse will be more than made up for in revenue.

[George 1978]

Re: Royal Weddings

But who's paying for these lash weddings?

The tax payer?

They only cost us about 70p per person or something. Not bad value to be honest.

[Twocky61]

Re: Royal Weddings

But who's paying for these lash weddings?

The tax payer?

[George 1978]

Re: Royal Weddings

Princess Anne was married on the 14th November 1973 to Captain Mark Phillips. Later divorced and remarried in 1992/3 to a guy called Lawrence.

Yes, I know what you meant of course - it's just the way that you originally wrote it!