Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news2.arglkargh.de!news.swapon.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Bruce Horrocks <07.013@scorecrow.com> Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: In the land of free speech, this is scary. Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2014 20:22:37 +0100 Lines: 21 Message-ID: <5404C77D.40209@scorecrow.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net xCL1iXez9HSE+pxGL0z9DwReGySGuFWSmdDdAvL/2/MPGD+Gl/ Cancel-Lock: sha1:IuP3uioJOtpJa6ZYUzUbIVfkyrc= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.9; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.6.0 In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com comp.misc:4627 On 31/08/2014 08:11, Hils wrote: > On 2014-08-31 00:42, Bob Eager wrote: >> The money she gets is in exchange for the income from the Crown Estates. >> Not even many Brits know this. >> >> http://www.royal.gov.uk/TheRoyalHousehold/Royalfinances/ >> CrownEstatesxyz.aspx > > There are also hidden costs, paid by taxpayers: > > http://republic.org.uk/what-we-want/royal-finances [snip] What a naive and ludicrous website - they seem to believe that a 'democratic' alternative to the monarchy would be less expensive. -- Bruce Horrocks Surrey England (bruce at scorecrow dot com)