Hunt them down and cull them
So! Their income is mostly from land ownership eh? And from whence did this ownership come I ask.
They inherited it.
And from Whence did that inheritance come?
Inheritance.

Go back FAR enough and the inheritance comes from theft, murder, double-dealing, incest, annexation etc etc. JUST the kind of people that we should all look up to.

On another note, does anyone have any idea why the Charles/Anne generation DIDN'T marry into the crowned families of Europe?

That's right! They were too closely related and the haemophilia (Romanov through the Victoria/Albert line), Inherited Lupus (Bourbon also through the Victoria/Albert line) and other congenital disorders caused by consanguinity were almost certain to manifest had they done so.

BTW they've only been the "Windsors" since the early 20th century.

Before that they were the Saxe-Coburg Gothas.

Gotta love the English, we love being servile.
(Captain Placid 24/7 ball gags, brownie mix and clown porn, Wed 15 Oct 2008, 17:07, 3 replies)

But but but
If they gave back the land, what would happen to it?

It would be stripped of all food and fuel bearing plants and covered in forgotten rusting Ford Cortina restoration projects, dog crap and decking.
( stopmeandslapme Cometh the hour, cometh your mum, Wed 15 Oct 2008, 17:25, closed)

By your argument...
ALL people who have a line of inheritance, aren't entitled to it.

If you go back far enough, you'll find vile acts throughout history which have been committed in order to take possession of land. And this goes for just about all land on Earth.

Are you English? Anglo-Saxon? Chances are that the land upon which your family home stands once belonged to a Celt. Who stole it from someone else (I can't be bothered to look up the history of land ownership over the millennia - but you get the picture).

Is it unfair that some people are lucky, by accident of birth, to be able to inherit huge estates and vast fortunes - while others have nothing? Maybe. But what are you going to do about it?

By that argument, one may as well say that by accident of your birth, you were born in England and not in Somalia. But do the Somalians therefore have cause to despise you - simply because you were "lucky" enought to have been born with a better lot in life than they were?

Come on! Unless you're advocating some form of extreme communism, in which everyone on Earth should be allocated one six-billionth of the available land area, and in which it is not possible to inherit, then your argument is flawed.
(EuroSong I love horse meat: best of all the animals, Wed 15 Oct 2008, 18:57, closed)

Actually...
my argument isn't about the inheritance per se but about the way these descendants of murdering warmongering genocidal bastards have the temerity to EXPECT respect precisely BECAUSE of their heritage.
And the sad fact that there are people outside their bloodlines that actually do think they deserve respect, even servility.
(Captain Placid 24/7 ball gags, brownie mix and clown porn, Thu 16 Oct 2008, 0:11, closed)

Royal Cash
Want to know where 'the crown' gets most of its ready-cash from? EEC subsidies, that's where.

Farming subsidies flow into most European countries in one form or another to support farming communities and ensure their survival. These subsidies are paid to the 'land-owners'.

Who 'owns' most of the arable land in the UK? Ah yes, that'd be the crown then....!

And we wonder why we go through periods where farmers (whilst trying to meet EEC targets for which they are supposed to be subsidised) occasionally shoot themselves in despair.

It's because Queenie there has kept the cash they're meant to receive so she can hold another state banquet.

On the other hand, if I had access to a helicopter I'd *love* to see the missus' face when I turned up in it!

Ah yes, if I had a big chopper the things I could do....
(EffinDoubt is breaking glass on, Thu 16 Oct 2008, 11:47, closed)