Re:The Queen has more power over British law than we thought
by oblio on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @02:33AM
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Counterargument: all those grandiose empty buildings. People still come to see our Place of the Parliament in Bucharest and ain't nobody bringing back Ceaușescu :-))
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Re:The Queen has more power over British law than we thought
by setr on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @02:56AM
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The question isn’t whether people would visit, but rather do they visit more because of the queen’s existence. That is, would be worth a billion rather than billions
Re:The Queen has more power over British law than we thought
by oblio on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @06:27AM
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That's probably impossible to quantify. The example next door, Versailles, kind of says you don't need a living monarch.
Re:The Queen has more power over British law than we thought
by setr on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @01:17PM
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>That's probably impossible to quantify
Sure, but that's the metric you need to go by if you want to evaluate the tourism value of a "living" monarchy.
That tourists would continue to exist with or without the queen doesn't really tell us anything useful. It's a question of how many.