The British Monarchy

Bodicoteblue said:
They’re the ultimate symbol of the inequality that bedevils this nation and has left us with record poverty and record billionaires.
But bless ‘em, they stand for British values don’t they?
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Indeed. I've got more respect and gratitude for the migrants arriving on our shores trying to forge a living than I do for these parasitic twats.

Comforts me knowing a republic is an inevitability, not a possibility. Just frustrating I won't be around to see it.
 
Alan Harper's Tash said:
It’s not a new thing. It’s always been like that.

Make a will people, it’s important.
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I think one of points of the article is that they've been lying about where the money goes claiming it goes to charity but actually pocketing it themselves.

There's another article on there about the broader way the monarchy has taken the piss out of the state/us over many years. I hadn't realised that Queen Victoria had pled poverty to the government saying she didn't have enough money to run the institution and when they gave her some extra cash she actually used it to buy Balmoral and Sandringham! You almost have to admire the brass neck but not quite; not sure what it says about us as a nation that we tolerate it all. If we were a more confident nation/people's then perhaps things would change.
 
This is one of a few surviving feudal relics.

If the monarchy is to survive, it needs to be massively modernised and reduced in scope and all feudal remnants need to be scrapped. The models of Belgium, Holland and Norway would make a good pattern.

I would prefer a republic of course, and make no bones about it. But an alternative would be a significantly slimmed-down monarchy.
 
Thieving scumbags.

I always thought money like this went to ‘the state’ i.e. us. Instead it goes to the leaching royals who only ever cared about money.

What a ridiculous country we allow ourselves to live in.
 
Mike N said:
Thieving scumbags.

I always thought money like this went to ‘the state’ i.e. us. Instead it goes to the leaching royals who only ever cared about money.

What a ridiculous country we allow ourselves to live in.
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Not that we’ve allowed ourselves to live in it rather than we have no real say and the system tells us how to live.
Sadly for many, his archaic system and its custodians are perceived to be the cultural rock on which this nation rests, instead of people like the Tolpuddle Martyrs, the Jarrow marchers, and the suffragettes who are by today‘s standards ‘enemies of the people’.
 
normskih said:
People who die and have no living relatives and do not leave a will their money, property and possessions go to the Crown or the government. It has always been that, it is nothing new. That is why people are told to make a will.
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Not a fucking penny of it should go to the crown. They should pay their own fucking way. Irrespective of whether a will has been written, they're not our family or our loved ones. Any assets "in limbo" should be apportioned to local government and councils for civic upkeep.
 
Blue and true said:
Not a fucking penny of it should go to the crown. They should pay their own fucking way. Irrespective of whether a will has been written, they're not our family or our loved ones. Any assets "in limbo" should be apportioned to local government and councils for civic upkeep.
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You swear a lot.
 
Blue and true said:
Not a fucking penny of it should go to the crown. They should pay their own fucking way. Irrespective of whether a will has been written, they're not our family or our loved ones. Any assets "in limbo" should be apportioned to local government and councils for civic upkeep.
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a) make a will....
b) by 'the Crown' they don't actually mean directly to Charlie himself but in practical terms it means 'the State'. So don't worry.
c) make a will...
 
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