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mark occomore
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 Posted: Mon Sep 06, 2010 2:07 pm Post subject: Prince Charles Train Trip |
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Prince Charles is still preaching about green issues, but the royal train is coming out the sidings on a five day trip which will cost the tax payers £90.000. The double standard Prince is setting off on the hornby train which is supposed to be running on Bio-fuels to promote sustainable living - including the importance of walking and cycling.
In the last 12 months the royal train was used on 19 occasions, covering an average of 800 miles, and cost to the country at a staggering £1 Million.
A clarence house spokesman said " Charles will be using the train as an office which is more practical on this 5 day journey instead of staying in a premire inn. |
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ColinB
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| Posted: Mon Sep 06, 2010 2:31 pm Post subject: Re: Prince Charles Train Trip |
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| mark occomore wrote: | Prince Charles is still preaching about green issues, but the royal train is coming out the sidings on a five day trip which will cost the tax payers £90.000. The double standard Prince is setting off on the hornby train which is supposed to be running on Bio-fuels to promote sustainable living - including the importance of walking and cycling.
In the last 12 months the royal train was used on 19 occasions, covering an average of 800 miles, and cost to the country at a staggering £1 Million.
A clarence house spokesman said " Charles will be using the train as an office which is more practical on this 5 day journey instead of staying in a premire inn. |
I think it's reasonable. After all, there's not just him to think about - there's a large entourage to consider (including his "Personal Detectives" and Special Branch folk). The cost of putting that lot up in budget hotels - even without considering the cost of local policing in town centres - would far outweigh the cost of parking the Royal Train in a quiet siding somewhere discrete where security can be maintained.
The other consideration is that all communications resources can be maintained in one place, and even conference and meeting rooms go with him. Sounds an eminently sensible idea to me even though I'm not a royalist.
And the train runs on biofuels instead of diesel. So there you go.
How do I know this? Because the Royal Train is garaged quite near me in Wolverton, North Bucks, and the son of a lady I know is one of the drivers.
So don't moan before you've considered the facts (facts you won't necessarily find in the tabloid press, I hasten to add). |
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Rachel
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| Posted: Mon Sep 06, 2010 3:03 pm Post subject: |
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Mark, Prince Charles will be the King at some point in the future.
If we are going to have a Royal Family and a Monarch then we should have a fully funded (whatever the cost) Royal Infrastructure to support it, which includes Castles, Palaces, Pageants, Royal Transport, planes, trains, ships, cars and carriages etc. The whole point of our Nation is to maintain our Monarchy – nothing else matters. Everything we do, is to promote and protect the Crown- that is our heritage, that is our future. We lose the Monarchy, we lose everything we ever were, we ever won, and we ever aspired to be.
We should be proud of our Royal Train- we should want to see it used and be jolly pleased when it is. |
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ColinB
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| Posted: Mon Sep 06, 2010 3:23 pm Post subject: |
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| Rachel wrote: | | We should be proud of our Royal Train- we should want to see it used and be jolly pleased when it is. |
Having seen it close-up after it's been washed, I can tell you what a jolly fine piece of kit it is, too! |
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littlepieces
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| Posted: Mon Sep 06, 2010 5:07 pm Post subject: |
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| Rachel wrote: | Mark, Prince Charles will be the King at some point in the future.
If we are going to have a Royal Family and a Monarch then we should have a fully funded (whatever the cost) Royal Infrastructure to support it, which includes Castles, Palaces, Pageants, Royal Transport, planes, trains, ships, cars and carriages etc. The whole point of our Nation is to maintain our Monarchy – nothing else matters. Everything we do, is to promote and protect the Crown- that is our heritage, that is our future. We lose the Monarchy, we lose everything we ever were, we ever won, and we ever aspired to be.
We should be proud of our Royal Train- we should want to see it used and be jolly pleased when it is. |
Have to say don't see the point of a royal family full stop
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mark occomore
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| Posted: Mon Sep 06, 2010 6:57 pm Post subject: |
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| littlepieces wrote: | | Rachel wrote: | Mark, Prince Charles will be the King at some point in the future.
If we are going to have a Royal Family and a Monarch then we should have a fully funded (whatever the cost) Royal Infrastructure to support it, which includes Castles, Palaces, Pageants, Royal Transport, planes, trains, ships, cars and carriages etc. The whole point of our Nation is to maintain our Monarchy – nothing else matters. Everything we do, is to promote and protect the Crown- that is our heritage, that is our future. We lose the Monarchy, we lose everything we ever were, we ever won, and we ever aspired to be.
We should be proud of our Royal Train- we should want to see it used and be jolly pleased when it is. |
Have to say don't see the point of a royal family full stop |
It is costing the tax payer millions as building start to fall apart. The queen asked for money from the Government to repair buck house roof a few years back. |
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ColinB
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| Posted: Mon Sep 06, 2010 7:58 pm Post subject: |
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| mark occomore wrote: | | It is costing the tax payer millions as building start to fall apart. The queen asked for money from the Government to repair buck house roof a few years back. |
That's the best example of over-simplification I've seen in ages. You should write for one of Ricky Desmond's "newspapers"!!!!!! |
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SantaFefan
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| Posted: Mon Sep 06, 2010 8:14 pm Post subject: Re: Prince Charles Train Trip |
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| mark occomore wrote: | | The double standard Prince is setting off on the hornby train.... |
Hornby train?  is it a toy train?
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ColinB
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| Posted: Mon Sep 06, 2010 8:20 pm Post subject: |
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| I don't quite understand the "double standard Prince" bit (and, no, I'm not a Royalist - I'm with Cromwell!). |
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Rachel
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| Posted: Tue Sep 07, 2010 7:41 am Post subject: |
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| mark occomore wrote: |
It is costing the tax payer millions as building start to fall apart. The queen asked for money from the Government to repair buck house roof a few years back. |
and what is your point?
Lots of things cost lots of money- the Royal Family are a long, long way down that list in cost terms.
"The cost of everything- the value of nothing" |
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ColinB
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| Posted: Tue Sep 07, 2010 8:33 pm Post subject: |
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| RockitRon wrote: | I think mark has swallowed a tabloid or two, and it has given him indigestion  |
Not for the first time either!
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MadeinSurrey
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| Posted: Wed Sep 08, 2010 9:05 am Post subject: |
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[quote="mark occomore
It is costing the tax payer millions as building start to fall apart. The queen asked for money from the Government to repair buck house roof a few years back.[/quote]
This is quite possibly the most ludicrous sentence that Mark has written on here - and there is a very long list to choose from!! There are enough factual and grammatical mistakes to fuel the Royal Train!
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Gnasty Gnome
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| Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2010 5:28 pm Post subject: |
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| MadeinSurrey wrote: |
! There are enough factual and grammatical mistakes to fuel the Royal Train! |
Slight factual misunderstanding on your part MiS. Biofuels, and bovine excrement are not necessarily the same thing!  |
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