This guy is either being deliberately obtuse or just an idiot considering it's the United KINGDOM, it's in the name the monarchy owns the place, they just chose (correctly for their families survival, mixed results for the people) to hand off all day to day governance to parliament.
And the royal family kind of have all the cards that everyone with a brain tells them to shut the fuck up with trying to get money off the royal family as the country gets the profits from royal lands as part of a deal set up during the reign of King George III.
seriously, the Royal Family aren't a tax drain, they are a net generator of cash for the UK. Not just through tourism but also in the fact that they directly own a MASSIVE amount of productive land in the UK that is privately held and generates a huge amount of income every year that is donated to the kingdom in return for a stipend.
Unlike with other monarchies the lands still retained by the house of windsor are in fact DIRECTLY in the name of windsor and not considered royal land. There is a seperate term "royal land" in the commonwealth for "crown owned land" which is actually controlled by the parliament. That bullet was dodged in the 1800's by a very savy monarch and the royal family now directly owns their lands as a family owned trust and the amount of land that they directly own in the UK is past 10%.
This guy is either being deliberately obtuse or just an idiot considering it's the United KINGDOM, it's in the name the monarchy owns the place, they just chose (correctly for their families survival, mixed results for the people) to hand off all day to day governance to parliament.
And the royal family kind of have all the cards that everyone with a brain tells them to shut the fuck up with trying to get money off the royal family as the country gets the profits from royal lands as part of a deal set up during the reign of King George III.
seriously, the Royal Family aren't a tax drain, they are a net generator of cash for the UK. Not just through tourism but also in the fact that they directly own a MASSIVE amount of productive land in the UK that is privately held and generates a huge amount of income every year that is donated to the kingdom in return for a stipend.
While that is true that was also the case in other countries that were monarchies. Guess what happened to that land when monarchy was abolished.
Unlike with other monarchies the lands still retained by the house of windsor are in fact DIRECTLY in the name of windsor and not considered royal land. There is a seperate term "royal land" in the commonwealth for "crown owned land" which is actually controlled by the parliament. That bullet was dodged in the 1800's by a very savy monarch and the royal family now directly owns their lands as a family owned trust and the amount of land that they directly own in the UK is past 10%.