• ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝@feddit.uk
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    1 year ago

    I think that high-pitched whistling noise might be a sign my piss is boiling.

    Take it away Lord Turnbull:

    Lord Turnbull, a former cabinet secretary, Whitehall’s most senior civil servant, who was involved in official discussions over royal financing, accused the Treasury of seeking to obfuscate how the monarchy was funded.

    He said that linking the royal finances to the profits of the crown estate was “silly” and was motivated by a desire to promote the idea that the king was paying for himself and was reducing the burden on the taxpayer.

    “You get people writing in saying: ‘Isn’t it a good thing that the king is so sensitive to public opinion that he has waived some of the money he could have had?’ I think it’s bollocks. It is deliberate – that’s really what makes me so cross about it. It is a deliberate attempt to obfuscate how the thing works.”

  • rayquetzalcoatl@feddit.uk
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    1 year ago

    I support this fully, as long as he uses our money to go to Switzerland and do us all a favour. Get a job you fucking leech, the rest of us have to.

  • anteaters@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    That’s nice of them. They take good care of their aging king who is surely not fit for employment.

  • nonearther@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Leave the old chap alone.

    He has been unemployed his whole life. He deserves some money, after living such deprived life.

  • Syldon@feddit.uk
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    1 year ago

    I guess the Bank of England doesn’t think this will exacerbate inflation.

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      1 year ago

      Perhaps our train drivers and doctors should just retrain to be royalty instead.

      The UK’s attitude to the monarchy is as tone deaf as ever.

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    1 year ago

    Just to be clear the royal grant is a portion of the profits from the crown estates. That the gov earns about 350m a year. So the taxpayers this comes from is technically themselves.

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      1 year ago

      No it’s not though because they don’t own the crown estates, the public own that and give them a portion of the earnings.

      Everything they have comes from us, they didn’t earn any of it, it’s all just stolen wealth and unitaxed inheritance.