Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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When counting the number of TVs that have "been tuned in", they don't take into account the number of people who switched on the box, at the usual channel, then quickly turned over to another channel.
Those 2 seconds of "being tuned in" are then counted as "having sat there and been stuck to the box".
Self glorification and presumption!
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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And if 1 person swithces through 5 channels and on each was the same scene, that is counted as "5 people tuning in". Even though the box may-be crossed through the back-door and ended up in the dust-bin.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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you're right alex those audience measurement figures are a bit of pie in the sky.
i flicked channels a few times during the morning, finally turned off about 10. 30 due to the chronic fawning of the commentatorrs.
Brian Dixon
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viva la repulic.
Come the Revolution, Brian..........
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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bern,
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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i thought the most impressive part of this thread was the self control of barry.
it took him nearly an hour to call anyone disagreeing with him socialist.
Worthy of note, Howard, worthy of note.
Jan Higgins
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I will stick with the devil I know thank you very much.
With regard to the cost I bet a republican set-up would cost just as much, I am thinking of the USA here as well as Ireland and the rest of Europe.
The leader still lives in a 'palace' of kind, they still milk the system, they NEVER leave office worse off financially than when they arrived. They often run the country while our monarchy has no official say.
Lastly how many money making tourists from all over the world would come to see the likes of a Thatcher or Blair son if they were getting married. The country did very well out of yesterday's wedding which was a big moral booster so
to the pageantry and all that goes with it.
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The Irish president, possibly uniquely globally, does fulfil a decent function without interfering with the democratic process. And you are probably right, Jan, about cost - but any political administration costs money, democracy is not the cheap option but it is the realistic and fair option for me, and for many others.
Alec Sheldon
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I switched over to al-jazeera to get some proper news but even they mentioned it.
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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Jan, do you know what it costs the security forces to keep up with all this jazz?
I bet you don't!
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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Not to mention thousands of butlers walking around in household slippers, and taking the royal doggies for walkies, and the endless banquettes on State money.
Guest 645- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Alex
Please read my post #10. You obviously have failed to read other forumites postings before adding your ''...thousands of butlers...'' silly comment.
Marek
I think therefore I am (not a Tory supporter)
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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Marek.
Guest 705- Registered: 23 Sep 2010
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To hell with the cost,the royals are one of the last surviving indicators of our British identity-come on Alexander you fly the flag! Along with iconic national necessities,to mention a few, like the Memorial Flight, Dover Castle, Bell Harry Tower, Steam Trains, Vic, Cutty Sark, Stone Henge,TSS Dover -we need them all.
Keith, I sympathise with your identity crisis.
Our Royal Family costs a fraction of what the US spend on the President and his massive entourage of people and equipment. Republic? You can keep it!
Never give up...
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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richard,the french had the right idea when they gave the french royal the chop,by all acounts they done a good job but a few did slip through the net.role on bastile day.
Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Richard - they are just being true to form.
This thread has exposed just how shallow their republican arguments are and basically it is all about shortsighted envy, spite and class war. It is all a matter of throwing the baby out with the bathwater. They would give up all the benefits that royalty brings in favour of being just another bland faceless republic at the cost of £billions to the economy and much of the prestige and influence that Britain today enjoys.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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barryw,you jest some what.the uk as a republic yes please,monerchy no thanks .anyway the monerchy are the biggist bunch of scroungers/spongers ever and apart from that they are a waste of space.
DT1- Location: Dover
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No wonder we have 3rd generation benefit claimants when we have this constant reminder that social mobility is a myth and that you born into your place in society.
The cost is irrelevant and no argument.
Quite simply it is undemocratic and blindly supporting them on the basis of tradition is rather silly...you'll be suggesting we should return to mud huts next. I appreciate that the queen would not exercise her powers, but the fact that someone should be given these powers by birthright is in direct conflict with the idea and mere definition of democracy. I wish the newlyweds well, I just disagree with the idea of monarchy and privilege, I favour democracy and meritocracy.
The royal family can't be representative of anything other than themselves. What represents a country is it's people, not a select few that actually can't engage with the fabric of their country in a natural way. I would like to say I have nothing against them at a personal level because I don't know them...which is another reason I find it odd that people should decide that they represent us when they know nothing about them, they may as well be anyone!
Which gives me an idea! Perhaps this is a 'big Society' project. This way we could keep it but at a fraction of the cost and irradiate privilege. All the positions could be taken by well spoken volunteers and rotated on a yearly basis. We could even have a program called the 'R- Factor' , vote them in, even vote for their dresses, sponsored by the Daily Mail.
Now I'm off to have a fry up on this sunny 'Labour Day' and to toast the workers of this country with a cup of builders tea. It's also my birthday, so I would like to thank the happy couple for an extended birthday weekend...so I will toast them too, I wish them well.