SteveStrummerUK
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Hey peasants - it's time to empty your pockets .................. yet again :-(
Buckingham Palace to get £369m refurbishment
Buckingham Palace is to undergo a 10-year refurbishment costing the taxpayer £369m, the Treasury has announced.
The Queen will remain in residence during the work, to begin next April.
Ageing cables, lead pipes, wiring and boilers will be replaced, many for the first time in 60 years, amid fears about potential fire and water damage.
Tony Johnstone-Burt, Master of the Queen's Household, said phased works offered the "best value for money" while keeping the palace running.
The Royal Trustees, who include the prime minister and chancellor, recommended that the works be funded by a temporary increase in the Sovereign Grant.
The grant - which this year totalled nearly £43m - is 15% of the profits from the independent property business Crown Estates, which go to the Treasury.
The trustees say the grant should rise to 25% of the profits for the repairs. This would require MPs' approval.
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Re: Hey peasants - it's time to empty your pockets .................. yet again :-(
2016/11/18 12:54:50
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yes but if it weren't for the queen and her family, the tiny island of England would be a banana republic with very few resources. Y'all need to be more humble IMHO.
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SteveStrummerUK
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Re: Hey peasants - it's time to empty your pockets .................. yet again :-(
2016/11/18 12:57:18
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At least we've already sorted out cancer, dementia, heart disease, homelessness and poverty...
.... this must be spare cash sloshing around the Treasury.
(I'm being sarcastic)
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Re: Hey peasants - it's time to empty your pockets .................. yet again :-(
2016/11/18 12:59:12
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eph221
yes but if it weren't for the queen and her family, the tiny island of England would be a banana republic with very few resources. Y'all need to be more humble IMHO.
England isn't an island, tiny or otherwise.
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Re: Hey peasants - it's time to empty your pockets .................. yet again :-(
2016/11/18 12:59:21
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Where can I donate?
PayPal?
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SteveStrummerUK
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Re: Hey peasants - it's time to empty your pockets .................. yet again :-(
2016/11/18 13:15:51
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eph221
yes but if it weren't for the queen and her family, the tiny island of England would be a banana republic with very few resources. Y'all need to be more humble IMHO.
England isn't an island, tiny or otherwise.
 There you go again ... ... ruining a good conversation by posting facts 
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Re: Hey peasants - it's time to empty your pockets .................. yet again :-(
2016/11/18 13:17:07
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☼ Best Answerby SteveStrummerUK 2016/11/18 13:27:51
They were warned about ageing boilers back in 2005.
But Charles went ahead and married her anyway.
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Re: Hey peasants - it's time to empty your pockets .................. yet again :-(
2016/11/18 13:17:52
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☄ Helpfulby drewfx1 2016/11/18 13:28:03
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eph221
yes but if it weren't for the queen and her family, the tiny island of England would be a banana republic with very few resources. Y'all need to be more humble IMHO.
England isn't an island, tiny or otherwise.
Oooo oooooh, Ithink I know the answer: is it a river?
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Re: Hey peasants - it's time to empty your pockets .................. yet again :-(
2016/11/18 13:18:47
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jamesg1213
They were warned about ageing boilers back in 2005.
But Charles went ahead and married her anyway.
Bada boom. Jaymes will be here all week. Don't forget to to tip you waitresses.
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Re: Hey peasants - it's time to empty your pockets .................. yet again :-(
2016/11/18 13:20:06
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☄ Helpfulby bapu 2016/11/18 13:25:24
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jamesg1213
They were warned about ageing boilers back in 2005.
But Charles went ahead and married her anyway.
Bada boom.
Jaymes will be here all week.
Don't forget to to tip you waitresses.
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Re: Hey peasants - it's time to empty your pockets .................. yet again :-(
2016/11/18 13:21:19
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In all seriousness, I chuckled at James's post #7.
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Re: Hey peasants - it's time to empty your pockets .................. yet again :-(
2016/11/18 13:33:52
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SteveStrummerUK
Tony Johnstone-Burt, Master of the Queen's Household, said phased works offered the "best value for money" while keeping the palace running.
Well you wouldn't want the palace not to keep running, would you? But help a clueless 'merican here, just what does the palace do?
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Re: Hey peasants - it's time to empty your pockets .................. yet again :-(
2016/11/18 13:55:22
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☄ Helpfulby drewfx1 2016/11/18 14:23:45
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SteveStrummerUK
Tony Johnstone-Burt, Master of the Queen's Household, said phased works offered the "best value for money" while keeping the palace running.
Well you wouldn't want the palace not to keep running, would you?
But help a clueless 'merican here, just what does the palace do?
It's basically just your run-of-the-mill 360-room hovel..... ..... for two people to live in 
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Re: Hey peasants - it's time to empty your pockets .................. yet again :-(
2016/11/18 13:57:09
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SteveStrummerUK
drewfx1
SteveStrummerUK
Tony Johnstone-Burt, Master of the Queen's Household, said phased works offered the "best value for money" while keeping the palace running.
Well you wouldn't want the palace not to keep running, would you?
But help a clueless 'merican here, just what does the palace do?
It's basically just your run-of-the-mill 360-room hovel.....
..... for two people to live in
AirBnB?
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bapu
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Re: Hey peasants - it's time to empty your pockets .................. yet again :-(
2016/11/18 14:50:26
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SteveStrummerUK
Buckingham Palace to get £369m refurbishment
Buckingham Palace is to undergo a 10-year refurbishment costing the taxpayer £369m, the Treasury has announced.
Did they also get a bid on a full demo and rebuild?
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Re: Hey peasants - it's time to empty your pockets .................. yet again :-(
2016/11/18 16:06:21
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☄ Helpfulby SteveStrummerUK 2016/11/19 10:57:51
Austerity austerity austerity...
New ship...I've just found a few million down the side of the sofa!
Home improvements...We're getting great value for money by phasing in £396 million quids worth.
You're an MP who likes 'special high quality spoons'...just put it down on your expenses old chap!
Repair the roads...support the NHS...support the disabled... :(...
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Re: Hey peasants - it's time to empty your pockets .................. yet again :-(
2016/11/18 16:07:43
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If the Queen's not happy.......
Well... the Queen's not happy?
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Re: Hey peasants - it's time to empty your pockets .................. yet again :-(
2016/11/18 16:29:05
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Re: Hey peasants - it's time to empty your pockets .................. yet again :-(
2016/11/19 03:13:31
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What a Royal pain in the arse!
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Re: Hey peasants - it's time to empty your pockets .................. yet again :-(
2016/11/19 10:31:45
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Yeah, if you work you're going to pay and no telling for what. I guess it's a good thing if you're on the end that gets a chance to put a portion of that money in your pocket because even a small portion can be a very large amount. Learning how to build guitars was the last time I challenged myself with something new. Maybe the next challenge will be to see how large of government grants I can get. That'll be tougher I'm thinking because I'll be starting at ground level....really, almost below ground level.
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Re: Hey peasants - it's time to empty your pockets .................. yet again :-(
2016/11/19 11:16:31
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☄ Helpfulby SteveStrummerUK 2016/11/19 11:21:12
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Re: Hey peasants - it's time to empty your pockets .................. yet again :-(
2016/11/19 11:24:21
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The time has surely come for us to stop perpetuating this 'fairy-tale' feudal nonsense.
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Re: Hey peasants - it's time to empty your pockets .................. yet again :-(
2016/11/19 12:28:06
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☄ Helpfulby SteveStrummerUK 2016/11/19 13:04:24
That's a hundred grand a day plus change. Somebody methinks is making a nice tidy profit.
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SteveStrummerUK
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Re: Hey peasants - it's time to empty your pockets .................. yet again :-(
2016/11/19 13:03:49
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I could accept the Royal Family in its present form - i.e. an inherited unelected monarchy - if we needed it and/or it did us any good. The pro-monarchy 'they're good for tourism' argument is ridiculous and disproved. And so what if they were - what price democracy? The "it only costs us 50p each a year" argument is irrelevant and redundant. What price democracy? The "I suppose you'd prefer a ' President Blair'" type argument is desperation to say the least. Whether somebody 'likes' their head of state is a complete non-point. Whether they can vote them in and out is the absolute point. What price democracy? More to come from me no doubt  ... Prince Andrew's freeloading bone-idle work-shy daughters might be a good topic for discussion.
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Re: Hey peasants - it's time to empty your pockets .................. yet again :-(
2016/11/19 14:21:57
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Time for all of you to head over to Beyond My DAW!
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Re: Hey peasants - it's time to empty your pockets .................. yet again :-(
2016/11/19 15:12:26
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That's a hundred grand a day plus change. Somebody methinks is making a nice tidy profit.
I lived and worked as a painter for a year on Nantucket. Some of the houses we worked on were pretty big and my boss would charge upwards of $100-150 grand for the whole job. And that's just for painting, God knows how much some of these people spend on yearly maintenance, often for what is merely a summer house that they spend 2 months of the year in. Mind you it's easy to underestimate just how much work there is on big houses. One of the houses we worked on was I believe the old Coors family property, and it was gigantic. There was so much work painting that house - all the shingles on the outside, endless woodwork to be sanded, sometimes taking off old varnish, all the door frames and baseboards and hundreds of nooks and crannies. And I don't mind saying, sometimes I was left alone to work in that house and I was about as spooked out as I've ever been. Think "The Shining."
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2016/11/19 15:31:09
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Time for all of you to head over to Beyond My DAW!
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Re: Hey peasants - it's time to empty your pockets .................. yet again :-(
2016/11/19 23:18:02
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sharke
I lived and worked as a painter for a year on Nantucket.
The sleigh ride? Did you get to meet Mountain? that's all I know about Nantucket really
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Re: Hey peasants - it's time to empty your pockets .................. yet again :-(
2016/11/22 09:27:48
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How the hell is this NOT a thread posted about Black Friday???
Flagged ten yards for Unsportsmanlike Misleading Subject Line.
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Re: Hey peasants - it's time to empty your pockets .................. yet again :-(
2016/11/22 12:05:16
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Speaking of misleading subjects, how's the Royal Family doing?
(I should probably read the fred.)
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