ks.234
Half way to Infinity
Give me Cornwall and I could produce assists worth a few £m. Especially if I did a Charles and only paid tax on a voluntary basis
Her Majesty's Platinum Jubilee Thread
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Mike & Van
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There's 11M children in the UK, and you're saying more than a third live in poverty? Anyway, cheer up, the Queen is surely almost dead!
Seeker_UK
Feelin' nearly faded as my jeans
ks.234
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Mike & Van
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Where do all these starving children live? And how does this contrast with rising levels of chubbiness?You’re right, not a third. More like half if the trend from 2018 has continued
ff1d1l
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You're eating all their food?
Joco
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I have no great love either way for the Monarchy but the elephant in the room is - who or what takes their place? I remember the debacle in Australia after the Whitlam Scandal and the endless arguments about what mechanism should replace the position of H.O.S. Guess what, it’s still the UK Monarch and Australians were quite happy to go for a full Republic at the time. The Australians rejected the Offered Referendum apparently preferring a directly elected H.O.S Which I. Have a concerns given the parlous state of democracy now and possibly for some years perhaps Charles and Wills doesn’t seem such a bad idea.
Cav
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That's why I deleted it.I think he's being sarcastic.
droodzilla
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davidsrsb
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Poor kids in SE Asia are often chubby and stunted with poor mental development. Carbs are cheaper than protein
Gingerbeard
Ayup Me Duck
A bit harsh about Charles, he was talking about and raising concerns for the environment and global warming way before it was mainstream. I wouldn’t call this nonsense…
laughingboy
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Yes, Charles has a good record of talking about global warming: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/may/09/prince-charles-climate-change-sceptics
But how much would you pay an environmental activist per annum? The fact that he is on the right side of environmental issues is hardly proof of his value for money.
And, besides, there is an air of talking-the-talk but not walking-the-walk about him - he is a heavy user of private jets: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/prince-charles-took-three-private-21364381
Barrymagrec
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ks.234
Half way to Infinity
It is a measure of poverty, not waist lines. That we have a government that has put up £24m for a 4 day knees up with such ease, while at the same time being so unwilling to tackle child poverty is frankly immoral.
Another issue is lottery money going to the Jubilee Celebrations. Is a 4-day knees up in a time of expanding poverty really a good cause?
ks.234
Half way to Infinity
Yes. And having multiple very large, old, draughty houses for him to live in occasionally cannot be environmentally efficient
Finnegan
I like a bit of a cavort
It must be nigh on impossible to determine precisely how much revenue the monarchy generates. As I and others have pointed out, Republics such as France and the USA continue to attract huge amounts of tourists. Do people visit the U.K. from Japan, New Zealand and the USA because of the monarchy? Or is Buck Palace, Windsor etc just on a bucket list alongside Stonehenge, Madame Tussaud’s, Stratford-on-Avon, Edinburgh Castle and Hadrians Wall? Because that’s all the Monarchy are really, just Harry Potter in (slightly) different costumes and with (slightly) less arcane ritual.
And where does this supposed vast revenue go and to whom? Does it benefit the U.K. as a whole? It certainly doesn’t seem to be doing much for the families in Scotland who can no longer afford school meals
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/jun/06/families-scotland-school-meal-debt-aberlour
or the millions using food banks, who want food that can be eaten cold because they can’t afford the gas and electricity to heat meals
https://www.theguardian.com/society...tems-eaten-cold-mind-blowing-says-jack-monroe
Meanwhile we’re encouraged to celebrate one of the richest women in the world whose vast personal wealth mocks her subjects, who are expected to demonstrate due deference while she stuffs her chops with a banquet that costs as much as a struggling family will spend on food over six months.
You can delude yourself that it’s all about celebrating ‘Britishness’ and bringing people together for a good time. But you cannot escape that supporting the monarchy is, however inadvertent, a de facto support of the idea of some people being innately superior to others due to an accident of birth, and that a particular human being has been appointed by God to rule over the rest of us, i.e. you support inequality and promote superstition.
The perpetuation of a feudal relic in the 21st century, is outdated, anachronistic, backward, elitist, ridiculous and downright offensive.
And where does this supposed vast revenue go and to whom? Does it benefit the U.K. as a whole? It certainly doesn’t seem to be doing much for the families in Scotland who can no longer afford school meals
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/jun/06/families-scotland-school-meal-debt-aberlour
or the millions using food banks, who want food that can be eaten cold because they can’t afford the gas and electricity to heat meals
https://www.theguardian.com/society...tems-eaten-cold-mind-blowing-says-jack-monroe
Meanwhile we’re encouraged to celebrate one of the richest women in the world whose vast personal wealth mocks her subjects, who are expected to demonstrate due deference while she stuffs her chops with a banquet that costs as much as a struggling family will spend on food over six months.
You can delude yourself that it’s all about celebrating ‘Britishness’ and bringing people together for a good time. But you cannot escape that supporting the monarchy is, however inadvertent, a de facto support of the idea of some people being innately superior to others due to an accident of birth, and that a particular human being has been appointed by God to rule over the rest of us, i.e. you support inequality and promote superstition.
The perpetuation of a feudal relic in the 21st century, is outdated, anachronistic, backward, elitist, ridiculous and downright offensive.
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