Queen's new £3M golden carriage! Ridiculous!

dizzie

Well, I'm having a day off work today and have just watched the opening ceremony of parliament. I wonder how people can keep a straight face when performing this expensive pantomine! All this "Hat's off stranger" and slamming doors business.....some bloke waving a white wand (or a whitewashed piece of dowel or something), and some other geezer with a black rod who did actually look like he was trying to suppress a smirk. And finally Cameron and Milliband pretending to look like best buddies and making interesting conversation with each other complete with hand gestures for the benefit of the cameras.

.....Blime.....would rather watch paint dry!! Why can't they save some money, just open the doors to Parliament....go in....and get to work?

I guess it's a case of personal preference whether you consider the "pomp" to be a nice British thing or not.

shaun_from_Africa

RuthnJasper wrote: »

I thought it was a gift from Australia.

It was, and I'm sure that whitegoods_engineer will be along shortly to admit that he made a mistake with his comment:

3 million pounds it has cost US!!!

shaun_from_Africa

oldagetraveller wrote: »

"I wonder how much it costs for people to sit at work posting on forums rather than working?"

I've quoted selectively and edited it but...............
Is that not just as bad?

Unless the people concerned are working in the public sector, then no, it's not as bad as the time and money wasted by those individuals will be borne by their employers and not directly by the public paying their taxes.

peachyprice

shaun_from_Africa wrote: »

It was, and I'm sure that whitegoods_engineer will be along shortly to admit that he made a mistake with his comment:

I'm sure it was just a typing error and what whitegoods meant to type was '3 million pounds it has cost AUS!!!'

oldhand

At £3 million I expected it to be modern,its still pulled by horses..:think::think:

System

peachyprice wrote: »

I'm sure it was just a typing error and what whitegoods meant to type was '3 million pounds it has cost AUS!!!'

And even that would be wrong. Only £138,000 came from the Australian Government as a grant. The rest of the estimated £2.7M came from Jim Frecklington, the builder, (he remortgaged his home) and private donations.

RuthnJasper

!!!!!! wrote: »

It was but don't bring facts into somebody's rant, it spoils it for them.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-27688923

Oh yes - of course; silly me.

I do enjoy a well-crafted rant. A well-crafted one...

whitegoods_engineer

Well I for one am fed up with paying for palaces, holidays and luxury for these chinless interbred toffs.

These are industrial scale scroungers.

I work hard every day to pay for this red carpet luxury lifestyle enjoyed by these shameless imbeciles.

They are a drain on society and are no better than benefits scroungers. They just do it on a huge scale!

When will this country wake up and call for these twits to be kicked out of their palaces?

paddyrg

How would you feel if you were not in fact 'paying for toffs' but by having those 'toffs' estate generating a *profit* and *subsidising the taxpayer*?

Would you prefer to pay more tax to get rid of them? I wouldn't. And on top of the straight financial side of things, they work as ambassadors which brings tourism and frankly business and global profile. Nobody gives a toss if Gordon Brown/another ex-PM visits a country on a diplomatic mission, but send the Queen or Wills and Kate and it's big news. This is important for our world standing and the knock-on for a tiny country such as ourselves.

Errata

I work hard every day to pay for this red carpet luxury lifestyle enjoyed by these shameless imbeciles

Will you still be working hard when you'r the same age as HM? She put in a fair shift this morning for our benefit.