New poll: 75% say royals should pay for Queen statue
A new opinion poll shows an overwhelming majority want the royals to pay for a proposed new statue of the late Queen.
The St James’s Park statue is set to cost the government as much as £46m.
75% of respondents, when asked which of the following should pay the cost of the statue, said the royal family. Just 14% said the taxpayer should foot the bill.
The poll, conducted by Savanta* shows a big majority in all age groups and demographics want the royals to pay.
The poll was commissioned by Republic.
Republic’s CEO, Graham Smith, said: “On this we’re in the majority, overwhelmingly the British public want the royals to pay for their own statue.
“This is another poll that shows true royalists are in a small minority, with just 14% thinking the country should pay for this statue.
He added: “This result is hardly surprising. We spend over half a billion pounds on the monarchy every year, we allow them to avoid paying taxes and we pay Charles and William personal incomes of more than £23m each.
“Yet when they want a statue to the queen they expect the taxpayer to pay. This has to stop. They can pay for their own statue.
“There is no public demand for this statue, support for the monarchy has fallen sharply and interest in it is low. There is absolutely no public benefit to this at all.
“And clearly the public do not want taxpayers footing the bill for a pointless statue, at a time when public services are at breaking point.”
Details of the poll are available HERE
With ongoing scandals engulfing the Royal Family, previous Savanta and YouGov polls have shown those who prefer a monarchy over a republic to now be below 50%.
Savanta interviewed 2,170 UK adults aged 18+ online between 13th and 16th December 2024. Data were weighted to be representative of the UK by age, sex, region, and social grade
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Her face will be on our coins for years to come.
She had a job, she did it pretty well.
So do millions of others who don’t get statues.
It”s not like they’re short of a bob or two is it?,
It’s a rich family’s statue – why are we paying for it?
Forty six million sounds an awful lot. A statue of Elizabeth is not unreasonable in view of her long service to the country but I am sure it could be done for less than that.
When the masses come to their senses and see the royals for what they are the statue will probably end up being dumped in the Thames along with other figurehead statues of people that only served themselves but were once wrongly hailed as heroes.
Do these freeloaders ever pay for anything?
I can knock one up at the beach at low tide. Fiver and an Ice Cream is my fee.
The plunging ethics of the current royal wasters are even dragging their past down with them. Give their assets back to everyone they took them from, privatise them as with everything not worth keeping, forget about their new attention craving wannabees.
Another excellent reason for getting away from the ridiculous empire.
Grow up Britain, stop this outdated nonsense.