When Windsor Castle was damged by fire, the tax payer had to foot the bill as the building was uninsured. Do you think that the monarchy should should take out personal insurance cover for all of their properties, or do you think that UK tax payers should be responsible.
2007-09-15 00:08:39 · 7 answers · asked by Tango 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Royalty
Absolutely - If you or I had our home damaged by fire or floods we would not be able to claim that the state should repair or replace our possessions.
2007-09-15 00:18:33 · answer #1 · answered by Empeedee 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
After the monetary losses of Hurricane Katrina, the Indian Ocean tsunami on December 26, 2005, and the collapse of the World Trade Center on 9-11-01, the legislatures, or parliaments, of the United States, New Zealand, Japan, France, and the Netherlands have all started catastrophic insurance programs to recover any losses sustained in the event of any catastrophe. In a world increasingly threatened by terrorists and climate change, isn't it prudent to start a catastrophic insurance program in the United Kingdom that would include Her Majesty's castles and palaces?
2007-09-15 01:19:02 · answer #2 · answered by Ellie Evans-Thyme 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Windsor Castle doesn't belong to the Queen it belongs to the nation.
It was not met wholly by the taxpayer, the state rooms of Buckingham Palace were opened to the paying public for the first time to help pay for the repairs. Many of those tourists were not British and those that were DECIDED to pay extra.
2007-09-15 03:13:02 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Whichever way you slice it, the UK taxpayer will always be the ones paying for, and who have paid for, everything the monarchy (and their distant cousins etc) ever owned, so insurance or not we still pay. If it or anything else burns down, the Insurers would put up premiums to recover the loss and that would be spread out through Lloyds to the whole nation anyway.
They have had us by the balls for so long we have forgotten we ever had any.
2007-09-15 00:21:50 · answer #4 · answered by Ring of Uranus 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Queen should be the one to give money to all , she nust not get any thing from the insurance and why should she, she has enough money which has been looted from around the world so she has to cover all of her expenses including the insurance
2007-09-15 00:17:45 · answer #5 · answered by Vikram 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
They should pay for they're own maintenance for they're properties! they already have very privileged lives & are in a better position then most of us financially! why should we struggle & work hard to maintain the lifestyle they've become accustomed to. They aint any better then the rest of us they're pointless scrongers that don't work hard enough for anything.
2007-09-15 00:34:35 · answer #6 · answered by on-point 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I think they shouldn,t get a penny from the public.
2007-09-15 00:14:11 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋