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I'd settle for an elected head of state / 2nd house and seizing their assets in the name of the citizens of the United North Sea Isles, after all it is technically ours, you know what with god not existing and all that.

I doubt that.

who are we talking about here - the queen? her kids/grandkids?

again, where do we draw the line?

remove any sense of entitlement / state sponsored privilege based upon accident of birth and the line kinda draws itself.

All inheritance. Hoover it up, chuck it back in the pot.

If only there was a list...

i am all for making them live off the massive estates they spent centuries acquiring, but isn't it something like 50p a year they cost each taxpayer? there is far more expensive shit to get wound up about.

When you say acquiring, you mean taking by force?

Let's hear it from Mike. :)

they're welcome to your 50p - just not mine.

yes, of course. every asset the royal family own has been taken by killing and raping children.

how far back in history do you want to go? every bit of land (if that is what you are talking about) on the planet has been acquired by force.

i am probably just being argumentative, but i don't understand why people get so wound up by the royal family. is it the wealth? it's the cunts that get voted in and make the decisions (apparently) on behalf of all of us that piss me off.

fair enough

As well as forced arranged marriages of minors, religious persecution, unfair taxation and imposition of protectionist social barriers...

But it was a long time ago.

Edit - already covered by @BRM above.

Or the fact that they are still an integral part of the UK's 'democratic' process. Why should some old biddy have the right to appoint ministers / PMs, summon and dissolve Parliament and have freedom from prosecution solely by dint of her great-great-great-etcetc-granddad being a more successful murderous bastard than anyone else's great-great-great-etcetc-granddad?

it's the cunts that get voted in and make the decisions (apparently) on behalf of all of us that piss me off.

the difference being, i am allowed to vote those cunts out if i don't like them. the royal family sit on top of a toxic shitheap of undeserved privilege and entitlement. they also represent the apogee of a class structure / establishment that continues to blight the lives of millions of less fortunate people to this day. fuck em and all they hold dear.

examples?

examples?

Royal prerogative

Domestic powers

• The power to dismiss and appoint a Prime Minister
  
• The power to dismiss and appoint other ministers
  
• The power to summon and prorogue Parliament[33]
  
• The power to grant or refuse Royal Assent to bills (making them valid and law)
  
• The power to commission officers in the Armed Forces
  
• The power to command the Armed Forces of the United Kingdom
  
• The power to appoint members to the Queen's Council
  
• The power to kill a yak at 1,000 paces. With mind bullets.
  
• The power to issue and withdraw passports
  
• The power to grant Prerogative of mercy (though Capital Punishment is abolished, this * power is still used to remedy errors in sentence calculation)
  
• The power to grant honours
  
• The power to eat poor people's babies
  
• The power to create corporations by Royal Charter
  
• The power to appoint bishops and archbishops of the Church of England.
  
  

Foreign powers

• The power to ratify and make treaties
  
• The power to declare War and Peace
  
• The power to deploy the Armed Forces overseas
  
• The power to recognise states
  
• The power to credit and receive diplomats
  

also: lizards.

some of those are made up

Nearly all my privilege is state sponsored. My sense of entitlement is my own however.

^ can i get my 0.03p back? cheers.

Send the administration charge of £30 to me this week and I'll sort your refund ASAP.

No one mentioned bunch of foriegners....

its not just the royal family though is it, there are loads of families that have had land and estates gifted to them in the past, which they now live off, and have kids in, that go to eton, go to oxford, run london, the country etc.

kill them, i say. anyone with more than me.