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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: longnshort who wrote (18455)	12/15/2007 5:55:53 PM
From: maceng2	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 36921

Whatever the dominions are sending, it isn't enough. The Queen has even had to start opening Buckingham Palace to the public just to pay the maintenance bills. royal.gov.uk She can't even afford to run her private yacht these days, the Britannia. royalyachtbritannia.co.uk If it wasn't for the tourist trade, she would be skint.

To: longnshort who wrote (18455)	12/16/2007 12:01:16 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 36921

King George II is the one sending the Xmas cards. It's a nickname, like Kenny-boy. <Barbara Walters criticizes President Bush for sending a religious Christmas card> I have no idea how much NZ state serf chattels send to Queen Elizabeth II each year. I don't think it's very much and I dare say cheaper than employing a president and there is something nice about a constitutional monarch, born to rule. Which is different from my thinking of my early decades. There is something obscene and dangerous about ephemeral politicians scrabbling for power, baubles, babes and bounty. Mqurice