so the queen..........

[stokemaveric]

has made a private donation to help the aussie fire victims...why has she never made any donation to any disaster that has happened in this country?...after all charity begins at home.....or so they say.....

[Ethel]

How do you know she hasn't?

She volunteered to pay taxes which she didn't have to do. She is patron of many UK charities and no doubt makes private contributions to them.

She certainly donated to Songbird Survival, a UK charity, last year.

And she is still the monarch of Australia.

[jno]

maybe she has, who'd know? Next time we have a bushfire, I'll ask her.

[Gromit]

Queen gave �301,709 to 346 charities last year, most of them in the UK.

But don't let the facts get in the way of your pointless moaning.

[Velvetee]

I like the Queen, she's always so well turned out.

[jno]

some would say she should be turned out permanently, Velvetee

[silverlace]

I wish I had loads of money to give to charity. Ecspecially if people had given me the money in the first place.

[stokemaveric]

most aussies want the queen to be abolished in their homeland in favour of a republic......have the aussies ever given any aid to the uk?im not moaning gromit....just making a valid point,maybe she does help charities but you can bet she gets it back in some form of tax relief,ethel maybe she did ''volunteer'' to pay taxes the rest of her subjects dont have that luxury,but she only volunteered as,at the time,the monarchy was under fire from all quarters about their financial affairs,their incomes in particular were under the microscope and the fact she ''volunteered'' to pay tax was purely a damage limitation excercise for the monarchy.....

[Ethel]

Yes, but she has given a lot of money to UK charities, stoke, whereas you wrongly said she has never given to any disaster charity in this country.

She donated quite a whack to the West Country floods, for example.

[fredpuli47]

stokemaveric , how could she get it all back as tax relief ?.Please explain, because we'd all like to be in on this wheeze!

[stokemaveric]

yes we could do with a good state funeral and a day off...lol

[stokemaveric]

dunno fredpuli but all the establishment,govt have their snouts in the trough and they would know all the loopholes...

[dot.hawkes]

grrr there are some nasty peevish people on here, i bet the folks who have lost everything in the fire don't give a damn about where she got the money. only that she had the good grace to send it where it would do the most good. If they do open a donation account for the general public to put their bit in, at least we know she led the way.

[Gourmander]

Will she be buried alongside Margaret Thatcher?

[BertiWooster]

Donating some of ' her ' cash is one thing - being buried next to Margaret Thatcher - I suspect she might consider that , as asking too much .

[TCL-MUMPING]

She is the Queen of Australia so she is giving money to her own citizens

[claymore]

As an Aussie living not more than 50klms from the devastation even a few bucks from Her Maj. will be greatly appreciated I assure you .

[R1Geezer]

any excuse for a bit of Queenie bashing oh and why not throw in a bit of Thatcher bashing at the same time. You lefty chip on the shoulder innadequate w4nkers are so predictable.

[losingravity]

Sack on the shoulder more like