Believe it or not, this was a question raised in the High Court in the uk a few years ago. The defendants were McVities Biscuits challenged by Customs and Excise. The case came about when Customs and Excise decided that Jaffa Cakes, McVities best selling biscuit was a cake and not a buscuit and should therefore be liable for VAT, (for some strange reason there is VAT added to cakes, but not biscuits.) McVities defence was, a biscuit goes soft when left unwrapped for a while, whereas a cake goes hard. They then produced a month old Jaffa cake which indeed had gone soft and one of their range of cakes of a similar age, that had gone quite hard. The judge agreed with McVities and ruled that Jaffa cakes were in fact biscuits, therefore no VAT could be levied on McVities Jaffa cakes...
It seems that the official figure is £226.5 million profit per year passed on to the treasury from the Royal Estate. There is of course vast sums earned from tourism, mainly from Americans, many of whom claim their main reason for coming to the uk was to visit the royal palaces and stately homes.
"VisitBritain carried out a poll among 25 000 potential tourists to UK. The poll shows that “Royal locations” and “castles” are the most preferred destinations."
Seems like the royals are quite a money spinner for the uk. Cost to the tax payer per year for their upkeep...£40 million, revenue generated by the royals...minimum £500 million. That's quite some profit.
I'm sure she deserves it for standing up to the Taliban the way she did. But when I visited her home town, Mingora, Swat Valley in 91 (well before the Taliban were around,) I did not see a single woman on the streets, seems they were all hidden away. The suppression of women in that area has been going on long before the Taliban arrived on the scene.
Vengeance is not, nor should ever be, part of a civilized society's justice system...that's for the hysterical masses and their repressed and ugly bloodlust.
I find that hard to believe, I was glad to be just passing through, can't imagine why anyone would want to spend any amount of time there. Although around sixty miles along the coast to the west is the wonderful valley of Olympus with it's amazing tree houses, a great place st spend some time and relax...
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RE: They Sound The Same.
He took sheer delight when asked to shear the sheep...