Month: December 2012
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New Zealanders Pay Highly for Windsor Visit
The first part of the costs of Charles Windsor’s publicity tour of New Zealand has been released by the Department of Internal Affairs, showing $766,000 was spent on the 6 day tour by the department alone. “This does not include what the Defence Force, Police and local authorities spent” said Lewis Holden, chair of the…
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NZ Visit Does Little to Help Windsor
An opinion poll of voters shows New Zealanders were unmoved by the Charles Windsor’s publicity tour in November, according to the New Zealand Republican Movement. His support did not rise above 51% and the number of voters who want a New Zealander as the next head of State has increased to 41% said Lewis Holden,…
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Tax Voluntary Claims Windsor
Shortly after Starbucks offered to make voluntary tax payments to counter criticism of its low tax returns, Charles Windsor has repeated his claim that tax is voluntary for him because of the supposedly superior genes on which he bases his claim to be “royal”. Windsor is refusing to pay corporation tax on income from the…
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Lizzie “Ultimate Public Servant” Says O’Donnell
Former top civil servant and current legislator-for-life Gus O’Donnell described Britain’s feudal head of state as “the ultimate public servant” when she attended a meeting of the Cabinet this week. Mr. O’Donnell did not cite any true public servant paid £13m a year or allowed the very short working week that Lizzie Windsor puts in.…
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State Church Seeks Robber Baron
Britain’s state church is looking for a hedge fund or private equity manager to manage its £5.2bn of investments, according to the Financial Times. The person appointed will manage hedge fund investments that have doubled since 2011 and account for about 10 per cent of the Church of England’s assets. Private equity investments generated a…