Can we afford a little present for the Queen?
Buying the Queen a new yacht is a daft idea: there are lots of other projects we can spend £60 million on
Should we cough up £60 million to pay for a royal yacht for the Queen? I have to say that in these times of financial austerity and belt-tightening, I would have imagined that a campaign to buy one of the world’s richest women a new pleasure boat would be a charity that might struggle. I’d like to see it put into one of those Waitrose charity competitions to see how it fares.
know of 1 going for spares or repair
Of course we should buy her a new yacht, and the aeroplane someone mentioned, she lives in London therefore we have no choice but to spend money on her, like we did the firework display in London for Londoners on NYE, did your council do you a nice firework display in the Town, City, Village where you live ? I am guessing most are saying no.
£15 Billion on the final bill for the Olympics, yes some will make money from it, some areas will be improved, mostly Londoners and London areas.
Our Nations capital is also our Nations biggest cash grabbing, self indulgent bunch of hypocrits that our Nation knows.
MOD said we can't afford any new helicopters when they were requested by our Generals trying to take care of our soldiers, but in the same week we opened a new Law Court in London that cost £55 Million just to refurbish it so that 12 Judges could use it.
Isn't most of this country's economy derived from work in the heart of our nations great capital?
I live in Plymouth and commute to Newcastle and have contracts in London. And am very thankful for them indeed!!
A new royal yacht, built with private funding, is being considered by the prime minister, Downing Street says.
The government would "react favourably" to the Future Ship Project which aims to build a royal yacht for hosting royal events.
The BBC understands David Cameron has given his "full support" to the plan.
If I live to 80 odd can I have a boat?
Seriously - what should be done to celebrate this event is local museums and libraries should be funded permanently. She or her family can go and visit them all to pull the little curtain off the plaque - but they MUST be kept open.
Her grateful nation to buy her a £80 Million yacht to celebrate? When did we suddenly fall back into Victorian times?
And don't fall for that rubbish about 'public funding'. It won't be enough - they will pull in tax money, MY MONEY, to cover the difference and then spend more of my money feeling it and feeding the crew.
its much the same north south divide here in wales ... most of any serious money spent on anything is spent down south cardiff way as opposed to ooop norf angelsey to chester
Is she the Queen of London? No. She is the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
So the 'celebrations' if there must be any, should be equally spread throughout the Kingdom. That includes Skye, John O'Groats, Land's End, Angelsey, Northern Ireland, Maidenhead, Scarborough, Crewe and all the rest of the places where the people whose taxes are paying for it live. Surely that's only fair?
Saying 'anyone can go to London to watch'. Sure we could, the point is we shouldn't have to. (£50 for each person on the train, £5 underground tickets, overpriced food, £100 for one night in a hotel that's on top of the £35 each way for me to get to a train station - total for me alone about £250) It's OUR Monarchy too. Except it isn't is it - we just pay for it and are expected to 'show our gratitude' anyway.
To be honest I don't know why I'm getting so cross about it - I have no say in the matter. Hopefully it will be too nice a day on the extra bank holiday (I assume that's when the flotilla and such like will happen) to to stay indoors and watch the telly. I'll probably spend the day on the allotment - I got loads of digging done on last year's royal wedding.
Having read the post I think that is a 'good thing' but it clearly isn't what the idiot Gove was suggesting. This is him quoted on "My suggestion would be a gift from the nation to her majesty; thinking about David Willetts's excellent suggestion of a royal yacht, and something tangible to commemorate this momentous occasion."
Downing Street rejected Gove's suggestion.
If she wants a boat let her buy her own