Buckingham palace to get £370m refit

[Celyn]

£369 million means £5 million could be given to every U.K. resident and still have a bit of change left over.

As a not-employed person with £73.10 per week, I think I'd prefer that method of spending money to us all paying to fix bloody Buck House. Or we could even build some council flats, or give more to the NHS, or some crazy mad idea like that.

It really is disgusting how much shit the government throws at us all. But I don't know what I can do about it.

 

[Yossarian]

It'd be a shame to see this heritage building left to decay - maybe the European Union could be persuaded to cover the costs of refurbishment if they were offered the building to use as their new embassy in the UK.

 

[SaskiaJayne]

Convert Buck house into luxury flats, £5mill upwards a throw as a ghetto for escaped Russian oligarchs etc. Once government coffers are filled with stolen money from around the world spend it on building council homes all over UK.

 

[seventh bullet]

Convert Buck house into luxury flats, £5mill upwards a throw as a ghetto for escaped Russian oligarchs etc. Once government coffers are filled with stolen money from around the world spend it on building council homes all over UK.

The Russian way of dealing with royals was with pistols and then rifle butts and bayonets to make sure.

 

[ViolentPanda]

They could jump off the famous balcony at Buckingham palace onto the upraised bayonets of the brigade of guards

Rumour had it that impaling herself on guardsmen was a favourite pastime of Princess Anne, when younger. Apparently true of her younger brother, too.

 

[brogdale]

Nicely done.

 

[ViolentPanda]

Apparently, the royal family own the whole of England and Wales. Anyone else can only have an interest in land, they can't technically own it, and "the country" doesn't own anything.

Bungle doesn't understand or care to understand such facts, or that the billionaire Saxe-Coburg Gotha/Battenburg-Windsors own vast swathes of land in the Commonwealth nations on a similar basis.

 

[ViolentPanda]

Things such as bathroom tiling are easier achieved when employed.

Cunt off, fucknut.

 

[ViolentPanda]

Are you sure they aren't achieved more easily when being part of a hereditary parasitical class? I'd ask you to do it but legend has it your grouting is the work of a rank amatuer, your name is mud in 5 counties and every tiling job you've done was cowboy as fuck

Apparently his missus does reverse cowgirl rather well, though.

 

[mauvais]

£369 million means £5 million could be given to every U.K. resident and still have a bit of change left over.

£5, not £5 million, which would mean a number with an e in it. On the plus side the payout would come with a picture of the Queen.

 

[SpookyFrank]

Wouldn't it cheaper to demolish the palace and build a new one? if it has to be done which I doubt.

Not even Brenda likes the place. And lord knows it's architecturally worthless.

 

[SpookyFrank]

£5, not £5 million, which would mean a number with an e in it. On the plus side the payout would come with a picture of the Queen.

I'd still take that fiver though. All fucking day long.

Queenie owns vast amounts of land, buildings, artworks and jewelry. If she wants her house doing up she can sell some of that shit to pay for it like all the other once-important aristo tosspots have to.

 

[mauvais]

It's worth £2.2bn apparently, although that might be by taking some London loft as advertised by Foxtons and scaling up from there. Surely some sort of PFI deal is the answer. They can set up a series of inter-room toll booths.

 

[SpookyFrank]

I've come up with a completely fair and nonpartisan way of dealing with the 'paying for the royals' issue. Remove all central government funding for Brenda and chums, and set up an optional levy whereby whoever these halfwits are who still care about the royal family can pay for them.

It could be a kickstarter type thing, with rewards. Chuck in a fiver and you get a rubber stamped postcard from Prince Edward. Chuck in a hundred quid and you get a guided tour of Buckingham Palace car park. Contribute a thousand and you get one of those 'get away with noncery free' cards Prince Andrew definitely doesn't have.

 

[hash tag]

Is the cost so high due to Brexit? I suspect costs to escalate over the years. Included is provision for 152 new lavatories. What is the world coming to? That's not even one a day

 

[Orang Utan]

Things such as bathroom tiling are easier achieved when employed.

You are definitely a snide cunt returner

 

[SpookyFrank]

You are definitely a snide cunt returner

Returner or no it's clearly a tenth rate troll.

 

[andysays]

I think it should be put to a referendum. Are you willing for your taxes to go towards the refurb & would you like to see the monarchy disbanded? That sort of thing.

Will you call everyone little Englanders and threaten to flounce off to Japan (who, interestingly, don't just have a Queen, they have a fucking Emperor) if that one doesn't go the way you want?

 

[DotCommunist]

You are definitely a snide cunt returner

nah just a common and garden wanker. imo.

 

[Sirena]

Anyone seen this yet?

Cost of moving MPs out of parliament for repairs could exceed £4bn

Now that would be taking the piss!

 

[Raheem]

Anyone seen this yet?

Cost of moving MPs out of parliament for repairs could exceed £4bn

Now that would be taking the piss!

If it went according to plan, though, we could a get a set of MPs in full working order.

 

[bubblesmcgrath]

£369 million means £5 million could be given to every U.K. resident and still have a bit of change left over.

As a not-employed person with £73.10 per week, I think I'd prefer that method of spending money to us all paying to fix bloody Buck House. Or we could even build some council flats, or give more to the NHS, or some crazy mad idea like that.

It really is disgusting how much shit the government throws at us all. But I don't know what I can do about it.

Revolution.

 

[weltweit]

There are not so many suppliers of materials for such very old buildings and there are few construction or restoration companies that can do this sort of work and therefore they are much more expensive.
Still, it is an eye watering amount, especially as the Houses of Parliament are also looking for work to be done.

 

[bubblesmcgrath]

Isn't Queenie wealthy enough to pay for her own house refurb.... ?

 

[DotCommunist]

her ma spunked a fair chunk of the personal fortune on the gee gees

 

[Celyn]

£5, not £5 million, which would mean a number with an e in it. On the plus side the payout would come with a picture of the Queen.

Oops! I always was bad at sums. Embarrassed face. Still disapprove of it, though.

 

[Celyn]

her ma spunked a fair chunk of the personal fortune on the gee gees

Gee-gees and gin.

 

[Sprocket.]

Isn't Queenie wealthy enough to pay for her own house refurb.... ?

Queenie and her brood could just pick one of the several vast homes they inhabit for a few weeks at a time for year round shelter.
When she needs to be in town for functions, she could rent somewhere with a garden big enough for a marquee inside the M25, I'm sure someone would help her out!

 

[not-bono-ever]

Queen to receive £6m pay increase from public funds - BBC News

There are few situations that cannot be improved by regicide

 

[agricola]

Queen to receive £6m pay increase from public funds - BBC News

There are few situations that cannot be improved by regicide

TBH the Crown Estates are probably the best argument for nationalization that exists.