viv_andersons_nana
Well-known member
Is the fact the cost of it, and who is going to pay for it, is not even up for discussion. Much like when Queen Elizabeth died, there has been a concerted effort to make sure we seamlessly move things along to the next person, her son, instead of having a proper conversation about the role of the Monarchy - and whether it even has one - in the modern day.
It just blows my mind that we, the public, have no choice or say about whether it’s right that we are paying for a man with a personal fortune of around £1.8bn to be ferried around London while the nation endures relentless strikes, soaring inflation, an NHS crisis, unprecedented food bank usage, people unable to pay their bills, old people dying of the cold and dying hungry, services across the board cut down to the bone, children going without warm food…
The next king inherited around £500m worth of castles, jewels, art, cash and land from his mother. All of it tax free. And yet another £100m is being drained out of the public finances to give him a party.
It’s just so unpalatable. And yet we cannot have a debate about it, instead being shut down and shouted over and labelled as ‘unpatriotic’ by the politicians and their political news media. I sometimes struggle to hide my anger on political threads with the current state of things and this is right up there. I absolutely hate that my taxes go on sh*t like this when old people are freezing and kids are missing meals. It’s just wrong.
It just blows my mind that we, the public, have no choice or say about whether it’s right that we are paying for a man with a personal fortune of around £1.8bn to be ferried around London while the nation endures relentless strikes, soaring inflation, an NHS crisis, unprecedented food bank usage, people unable to pay their bills, old people dying of the cold and dying hungry, services across the board cut down to the bone, children going without warm food…
The next king inherited around £500m worth of castles, jewels, art, cash and land from his mother. All of it tax free. And yet another £100m is being drained out of the public finances to give him a party.
It’s just so unpalatable. And yet we cannot have a debate about it, instead being shut down and shouted over and labelled as ‘unpatriotic’ by the politicians and their political news media. I sometimes struggle to hide my anger on political threads with the current state of things and this is right up there. I absolutely hate that my taxes go on sh*t like this when old people are freezing and kids are missing meals. It’s just wrong.