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From:	william (WILLIAMA)	7 May 2023 15:52
To:	Peter (BOUGHTONP)	3 of 11

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Your text has a splendid colour with which I agree. Deference to the monarchy has waxed and wained. I'm not advocating a solution such as the one favoured in 1649, but I see no reason why the public should continue funding this absurdly wealthy and massive family or why they should have any exemptions whatsoever from law and tax. I would also like to see some attempt to recoup losses to public assets that have accumulated as private wealth within the family as a result of their past exemptions from law and tax, say by levying a much higher rate of taxation for 25 years on anybody wishing to retain any kind of royal title. He May Be Your Dog But He's Wearing My Collar

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From:	milko	9 May 2023 12:06
To:	ALL	4 of 11

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I built a summerhouse down the allotment. Then turned up for a few late beers as the nearby street party was winding down, it was nice to see a few people and chat but if there was any Royal business going on at all, I thankfully missed it. My local (Labour-run by a huge majority) council spunked more than £180,000 on Coronation-related stuff. Obscene! https://flo.uri.sh/visualisation/13654494/embed

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From:	Peter (BOUGHTONP)	9 May 2023 21:45
To:	milko	5 of 11

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Where did that data come from? There's a couple of zeros where I would have expected there not to be. `3.1415P265E589T932E846R64338`

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From:	milko	10 May 2023 16:38
To:	Peter (BOUGHTONP)	6 of 11

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I believe the authors FOI'd the councils, hence several of them not having any data/reply yet. I've not looked deeply into it though.

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From:	Voltane	11 May 2023 19:41
To:	All	7 of 11

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I was at work, which was quiet except for about half an hour shortly after the coronation ended when everyone decided they had to shop /right now/. The helicopter flyover actually passed right above us so we all rushed out to watch that - the highlight of the day.

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From:	Dave!!	12 May 2023 18:14
To:	Voltane	8 of 11

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Heh, I live North of Aberdeen and we get about 20 helicopters a day flying over us to the oil rigs, so novelty is limited here. Saying that, I couldn't have cared less about the coronation, although an extra day off work was OK I guess. ---

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From:	ANT_THOMAS	12 May 2023 18:32
To:	william (WILLIAMA)	9 of 11

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Didn't watch any. Didn't get an extra day off work. And for some reason it made this week feel like the longest week in existence. A

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From:	william (WILLIAMA)	14 May 2023 19:40
To:	ANT_THOMAS	10 of 11

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Sorry to hear that. I still haven't watched any of it, apart from a couple of still shots of pre-protestors being arrested and 30 seconds of the king bloke in a Disney carriage with subtitles from a lip-reader. How come you didn't get the free day? Seems like that was the ONLY good thing for a normal working person. Like one of those things where you go "Hey, can't we celebrate that really wonderful thing like Jesus personally healing those 5 million children" and the govt says, "Soz, no MONEY TREE" and then it's like "Oh, the Saxe-Coburg-Gotha hat-ceremony. YAY, a day off all round (except for Ant)". He May Be Your Dog But He's Wearing My Collar

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From:	ANT_THOMAS	16 May 2023 16:18
To:	william (WILLIAMA)	11 of 11

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The group I work for decided they didn't want to give it. Not contractually required and most sites would have been operating anyway, so it would have been an extra day holiday for another time. Tight bastards. A

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