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[Tal]

So the Queen has instituted cutbacks and now generously gives all of her 1,500 staff a Tesco Christmas pudding each instead of the Fortnum & Mason ones they got in the past.

1,500 staff?

If someone had asked me, I would have guessed that she had 200 staff or less. What on earth are they all doing? I haven't been strongly opposed to the Monarchy (though I do think it's pointless), but is there any way that is not excessive and wasteful?

Apparently, Charles also had 121 full-time staff of his own at last count.

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/queen-christmas-gift-elizabeth-ii-buckingham-palace-employees-staff-tesco-christmas-pudding-a8110836.html

Reminds me of a QI story:

Stephen
Actually, there's a true story about the Duke of, er . . . I think it was the Duke of Devonshire I think it was, in the second World War, they would have people from the ministry of Labour going around checking on everybody, and . . . particularly on the big estates, to see if all these people could . . . if someone could be released for essential war work, and they went to . . . to Chatsworth, where the Duke of Devonshire's estate was, and they . . . you know, stopwatch and clipboard, and they checked everybody, and eventually, they had an interview with the . . . with the Duke, and they said, "Well, your Grace, we can understand that you need, er, 47 gardeners and 13 under-gardeners, and you need, er, erm, grooms, and you need chauffeurs, and you need, er, upstairs maids and downstairs maids and in-between maids and laundry room maids and stillroom maids and kitchen maids and nursemaids and housemaids and parlour maids, and we can understand that, er, you need the boy to scrape the knives and boots, and you need the butler and the four footmen, and the under-butler . . . but we wonder if a man economy might be made . . . Do you . . . Does your Grace necessarily need two pastry cooks?"

To which he apparently replied, "Oh, damn it. Can't a man have a biscuit?" . . . Which is, I mean . . . you know, we're all prepared to make sacrifices, and beat the Hun, but I mean, really. That's going a bit far, isn't it?


https://sites.google.com/site/qitranscripts/transcripts/2x07

[Woodsey]

So the Queen has instituted cutbacks and now generously gives all of her 1,500 staff a Tesco Christmas pudding each instead of the Fortnum & Mason ones they got in the past.

1,500 staff?

If someone had asked me, I would have guessed that she had 200 staff or less. What on earth are they all doing? I haven't been strongly opposed to the Monarchy (though I do think it's pointless), but is there any way that is not excessive and wasteful?

Apparently, Charles also had 121 full-time staff of his own at last count.

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/queen-christmas-gift-elizabeth-ii-buckingham-palace-employees-staff-tesco-christmas-pudding-a8110836.html

Count up how many residences she has and there’s your answer.......

[Doobs]

So the Queen has instituted cutbacks and now generously gives all of her 1,500 staff a Tesco Christmas pudding each instead of the Fortnum & Mason ones they got in the past.

1,500 staff?

If someone had asked me, I would have guessed that she had 200 staff or less. What on earth are they all doing? I haven't been strongly opposed to the Monarchy (though I do think it's pointless), but is there any way that is not excessive and wasteful?

Apparently, Charles also had 121 full-time staff of his own at last count.

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/queen-christmas-gift-elizabeth-ii-buckingham-palace-employees-staff-tesco-christmas-pudding-a8110836.html

Surely it depends?  You cut the people who run the tours etc. and surely end up worse off?  They must make heaps on those unless they are completely incompetent. So 1,500 is meaningless. 

And I only go to Sandringham for the biscuits obv.  And you'd struggle to lose money with the prices they charge for those!

[tikay]

So the Queen has instituted cutbacks and now generously gives all of her 1,500 staff a Tesco Christmas pudding each instead of the Fortnum & Mason ones they got in the past.

1,500 staff?

If someone had asked me, I would have guessed that she had 200 staff or less. What on earth are they all doing? I haven't been strongly opposed to the Monarchy (though I do think it's pointless), but is there any way that is not excessive and wasteful?

Apparently, Charles also had 121 full-time staff of his own at last count.

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/queen-christmas-gift-elizabeth-ii-buckingham-palace-employees-staff-tesco-christmas-pudding-a8110836.html

Count up how many residences she has and there’s your answer.......

https://www.royal.uk/inside-the-royal-household

[Woodsey]

So the Queen has instituted cutbacks and now generously gives all of her 1,500 staff a Tesco Christmas pudding each instead of the Fortnum & Mason ones they got in the past.

1,500 staff?

If someone had asked me, I would have guessed that she had 200 staff or less. What on earth are they all doing? I haven't been strongly opposed to the Monarchy (though I do think it's pointless), but is there any way that is not excessive and wasteful?

Apparently, Charles also had 121 full-time staff of his own at last count.

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/queen-christmas-gift-elizabeth-ii-buckingham-palace-employees-staff-tesco-christmas-pudding-a8110836.html

Count up how many residences she has and there’s your answer.......

https://www.royal.uk/inside-the-royal-household

Reckon when I hang my boots up from the corporate game I might get a job working for the royals, would be a privilege working for such great people  

https://www.royal.uk/join-us

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[tikay]

^^^^

Ha, very good.

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Quite

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Say what you seed

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(S)tool pigeon

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Nicked from FB. Hope that's ok

[tikay]

That's just the absolute best.