Shrimpsvoices

I've never specifically been a republican but wasn't a monarchist either, I pretty much didn't care.

But I've had an epiphany! Total convert!! Good old William and thingy-what's-her-name!

Assuming the cost of the Royal Family is the same for Manx tax payers as it is for the UK, it is 62 pence each per year.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/ ... erson.html

If you earn minimum wage of £6.10 and work eight hours per day, then the additional Bank Holiday is worth £48.80

48.80 'bank holiday pay' divided by Royals tax cost per year of 0.62=78.7

You'd have to work for more than 78 years before the Royal Family cost anything! :rolleyes: And that's just for minimum wage earners. Earn more than that and the 'bonus' gets better.

With a bit of luck, we'll get another Bank Holiday when William becomes king, so as long as his mum goes before I retire, I'll be quids in!

Keith wrote:With a bit of luck, we'll get another Bank Holiday when William becomes king, so as long as his mum goes before I retire, I'll be quids in!

Breaking News Keith that might not have reached the IOM yet!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Diana,_Princess_of_Wales

Yes Keith, it's wonderful,
being self employed i wish every day was a bank holiday!

Mark S wrote:

Keith wrote:With a bit of luck, we'll get another Bank Holiday when William becomes king, so as long as his mum goes before I retire, I'll be quids in!

Breaking News Keith that might not have reached the IOM yet!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Diana,_Princess_of_Wales

Diana is dead - I didn't even know she had been ill !!

Mark S wrote:

Keith wrote:With a bit of luck, we'll get another Bank Holiday when William becomes king, so as long as his mum goes before I retire, I'll be quids in!

Breaking News Keith that might not have reached the IOM yet!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Diana,_Princess_of_Wales

You'd have thought SOMEONE would have mentioned it! I was just getting so excited at realising I was in credit!

Much better to salute the Queen than Lady Gaga and her barely covered gooch. I'd rather pay my 70p or whatever per year to have a monarchy and HRH's face on every other country's money than just have Great Britain become a boring rock with crap weather (bar the occasional nuclear cloud passover).

Morectalk wrote:Diana is dead - I didn't even know she had been ill !!

Caused me a lot of grief that night, being on duty where I was