> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Rob Studdert
> > the Brits. Don't know if it will play ex-UK but worth a try. Ad > first. > > > > <http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/video/2011/apr/30/royal-wedding-street- > > level-video> > > Great little video, it's nice to see some of the other goings on, it's > a hard life being a zombie these days, I bet the plods felt like > plonkers having to arrest them too, security surely was tight. > > Little miss republican doesn't think England benefits from tourism > linked to the Royals, who's naive then? there was an extra public holiday for the wedding, so the whole country had the day off work, which apparently cost billions in 'lost productivity', whatever that means. If there hadn't been a public holiday there'd have been about 3 British people lining the streets and the rest would have been Americans. Not that I'm moaning about any of it, least of all the day off. The rest of London was completely empty - I've never seen so few people about in daylight before. The whole business about republican / monarchist is nonsense really. Getting rid of the monarchy wouldn't save any money since we wouldn't get rid of the pomp and circumstance that goes with that, and that's what costs. They have no real power, and we're no more or less democratic than the various republics such as the US, France and Germany, so although I'm a republican politically & theoretically, practically it really doesn't make any difference whether we keep 'em or kill 'em. B -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
