My main reaction when I read that the ‘Sovereign
Grant’ is to rise by £45m this year from £86.3m to £132m was – huh –
they’re still there…
And remember the sovereign grant is just the tax payer money they get given –
pocket money so to speak - on top of a whole lot of everything else. The royals are rich from land ownership and inherited
wealth and they cost the tax payer money in so many other ways not least
policing for when they are out and about in their dressing-up clothes shaking
hands with the great unwashed.
The King’s coronation cost (as UK papers estimate)
between £50 - £100 million. Why there is not an exact figure is anyone’s guess
– maybe its considered poor taste to calculate to the odd £50 million when dealing with anything
Royal.
Despite all this, Charlie boy was reported to have
accepted 3m euros in cash in shopping bags from a Qatari politician (2022). Clarence
House trotted out the balm that the money was ‘immediately passed to one of Charlie’s
charities’ – and that was that was sufficient explanation as the UK press was concerned - so that’s
ok then. Nothing grungy at all about that. And yes – Charlie has a talking
house as opposed to a talking horse.
There is absolutely nothing about this that makes
any sense. And by this I’m talking about THE MONARCHY in what is supposedly a
modern Western democracy.
And after a decade and a half of Tory austerity
where a disgraceful number of children are now living in poverty and there is a
scrap over whether pensioners should keep their winter fuel allowance. UK
pensioners receive between £200 and £300 for the whole year while others with titles are getting £333 per day in the House of Lords for doing
fuck all. So clearly, in the UK, it’s something to do with wearing ermine that
entitles you to free money!
Fag Ash Lil – who currently holds the title of queen
consort – despite all we hear about tradition and continuity when the
sycophants are drivelling on about royalty – was the ‘third person’ in the
Diana / Charles marriage and has since been credited with some of the most
abusive treatment of Meghan Markle who was hounded out of the UK by the racist
royals and a gleeful press.
And yes – any royalist reading this will possibly
trot out the tired old argument about what ‘they’ do for Britain – the income
from tourism etc but no one ever puts a figure on that or weighs it against
the cost and the stupidity of it all. No one points out that many countries
without a Charlie and a Camilla – get far more tourism than we do.
So my question is not so much why the increase in free money to some of the richest folk in the world – my question is WHY still a monarchy at all???
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