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Crossrail to be called "Elizabeth Line" ffs
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jambalayaFree Member
JY speak to some tourists when you are next down in London, read any amount of copious research
Grum 😀 The problem with revolutions is it’s hard to chose the exact style, they tend to have life of their own and work out quite differently than expected.
over 300 homeless people sleeping in london last night
Buckingham palace has over 750 rooms of which 250 are bedrooms…..
More than 300 empty houses in Newcastle alone I’d wager ? Why have a bedroom when you could have a whole house.JunkyardFree MemberJY speak to some tourists when you are next down in London, read any amount of copious research
Wow you absolutely swayed me there as nothing is more convincing [nor more evidence based] than you just repeating yourself.
Surely your great well read self has some resource [ possibly fee paying so you cannot list it up] to prove your point. I for one will be astounded if you are just sounding off with no evidence to support your view beyond anecdote and your nan.
ransosFree MemberJY speak to some tourists when you are next down in London, read any amount of copious research
When making an assertion that appears to be cobblers,you need to back it up, or people will assume it’s cobblers.
PigfaceFree MemberMy problem with the Royal family = Andrew, he needs a good hoof in the slats.
The homeless rough sleeping figure is shameful on a country with the resources of Britain, what does Jambalaya say about that.
konabunnyFree MemberThe Royal Family bring in a nially larger amountnof revenue from both Tourism and business as well as anchoring the Commonwealth and the Nation. Even the Australians voted to keep the British Monarchy
430,000 people visited Buckingham Palace in the average year.
1,500,000 people visited the Kremlin (Royal family executed in bloody revolution in 1918).
7,500,000 people visited Versailles (Royal family executed in bloody revolution in 1789).
It is therefore STATISTICALLY TRUE that not only are bloody revolutions good for tourism, the effect increases over time.
konabunnyFree MemberPS if the Australians want the Royal Family they are free to provide them with money and palaces after we’ve fired them and appropriated their assets.
steve-gFree MemberElizabeth Line is a better name than Crossrail, purple is a good choice, and once they open the Woolwich Branch of the line that will be my route to and from work.
I currently cross the river 3 times to get to work, and while it doesn’t take long it does strike me as stupid that its the quickest way in.
JunkyardFree MemberYou have not though this through as the anchor of the commonwealth and a nation – I assume she can do a job for others just as well as she has for us- we should be selling them all to the highest bidder- we probably have to give andrew away with somebody else but I reckon we can get millions for them.
Chest_RockwellFree MemberThe Paris Lees line?
Another expensive tunneling project funded by the taxpayer. 😉
mtFree MemberWe’d end up with Blair (having previously had Thatcher) as head of state, for that reason I’ll take Queeny then Charlie any time. Thought of a career politician poncing around as if they were some makes me puck.
ransosFree MemberWe’d end up with Blair (having previously had Thatcher) as head of state,
Yes, that’s definitely what would happen. 🙄
konabunnyFree MemberHow many people on this thread are familiar with the offices of President of Ireland or Israel?
bikebouyFree Memberkimbers – Member
over 300 homeless people sleeping in london last night
Buckingham palace has over 750 rooms of which 250 are bedrooms…..Good point, well made.
😕esselgruntfuttockFree MemberThe homeless rough sleeping figure is shameful on a country with the resources of Britain, what does Jambalaya say about that.
No idea but I think it’s great that we find homes for refugees from Syria before before finding homes for British homeless people.
Only kidding. 😉
konabunnyFree MemberLong term (as opposed to frictional) homelessness isn’t really about housing stock, though, is it?
wobbliscottFree MemberBut Buckingham Palace is not open all the time hence the lower numbers – in fact its only open for a handful of weeks over the summer, so if it was open all year round the visitor numbers would easily beat the Kremlin and Versaille. There is nothing to see in Russia apart from Red Square/Keremlin etc – it’s a crap hole. It was in the news recently that Versailles was facing ruin in the face of horrendous state of repairs that the French Government is struggling to afford despite all the visitors. Probably because the President is spending all the money on his mistress.
At worst our Royal Family cover their costs (show me the stats that say otherwise) – they are busy public servants after all and really do a fantastic job being ambassadors for our country – fact. At best they make us a tidy profit.
I really struggle to understand why people get so hot under the collar about them. They do a good job, and create a bit of drama in otherwise a pretty dull and boring world. They’re not doing any harm, infact do alot more good than anyone on this forum.
Buckingham Palace would still stand without a Monarchy but it would be a folly without any real substance without a proper Royal Family residing there. It would have far less appeal for tourists.
scotroutesFull Member🙂 sorry, but it doesn’t work like that. If you’re going to make assertions, it’s up to you to provide supporting evidence.
konabunnyFree Member6. The Royal family generate close to £500 million every year for British tourism with The Tower of London, Windsor Castle and Buckingham Palace the most popular Royal destinations.
That’s the stat as the Telegraph (the source for the Atlantic) described it – and NB they don’t attribute it to the UK’s tourism agency. They also seem to be attributing all visits to historical palaces to the Royal Family – ignoring the fact that more people could and would visit them if they weren’t clogged up with squatters.
It doesn’t make sense to say Buckingham Palace would be less attractive to tourists if the Royal family was disestablished when Versailles (and a zillion other palaces in India, Russia, Germany, Italy, Austria, Turkey etc are all hoaching with tourists despite their original inhabitants having been bumped off ages ago.
CountZeroFull MemberWho cares about the historic stuff – no need to change it. This is about today.
Well, considering Crossrail is just the name of the project, and the Victoria Line was named after the then head of state, it makes perfect sense to name the new line after the current head of state, making it about today, rather than the past.
As fat as the cost is concerned, I notice nobody is making a peep about the insane cost, and destruction of countryside and habitation, of the proposed High Speed Rail project, to make the North this powerhouse of finance and industry,
And then there’s the electrification of the Great Western, capital spend supposed to be £7billion, but already overrunning and nowhere near any sort of finish date! There’s a bridge that I would usually drive over to pick up a mate when we go to the pub or gigs, it’s been closed for many months now, I think getting on for six, if not more, and there’s absolutely no indication when it’ll be reopened, and that’s causing significant inconvenience to local residents.konabunnyFree Memberthe Victoria Line was named after the then head of state
Ahahahahahha ahahah ahahahaha ahahaha lol lol lol lol
NorthwindFull MemberCountZero – Member
Well, considering Crossrail is just the name of the project, and the Victoria Line was named after the then head of state,
I know she hung around for a long time but she’d have been 150 years old when the Victoria Line was opened. Indirectly maybe, the line’s named after the station which is named after the queen. Or possibly the station’s named after the street, but the street’s named after the queen.
But you made me curious- I went and looked it up and several underground lines did open during her reign. The Circle Line, the City and South London Railway and the Waterloo and City Railway. So if you want to hearken back to Victoria’s time, there’s your naming convention.
senorjFull MemberBut Buckingham Palace is not open all the time hence the lower numbers – in fact its only open for a handful of weeks over the summer
Then what we could do is turn it into a large (nationalised) hotel for all the wealthy tourists to stay in. Or it could be a new hospital maybe. Or a large homeless hostel/refugee centre.
Either way would be of better use than it is now. (In my humble opinion).enfhtFree MemberThe line should have had a more sympathetic name, something maybe in honour of the original tribes who were cleansed from the area in the name of Diversity and Enrichment. Should have called it the Stan/Ronnie/Terry/Mickey/Arfur/Gladys/Mabel/Violet etc Line.
konabunnyFree MemberThey weren’t cleansed in the name of anything. They buggered off because they were given modern houses in Essex for practically nothing so they didn’t have to live in slums. That was back in the days when squalor was a state issue.
enfhtFree MemberBut you’re talking about years ago I’m not. Personally I don’t get offended by the Elizabeth Line. Not worth getting all pissy about tbh.
grumFree MemberI notice nobody is making a peep about the insane cost, and destruction of countryside and habitation, of the proposed High Speed Rail project, to make the North this powerhouse of finance and industry,
😆
Most people have been slating this as a massive waste of time and money for ages, and it’s not even going to go to the north of England. If they actually wanted to help the north they’d make high speed rail between Leeds and Manchester. I think the ‘northern powerhouse’ has officially been cancelled anyway.
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