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Post by kueifei on Mar 8, 2023 1:47:57 GMT
I hope politicians remove royals from the diplomatic and political sphere and I hope politicians ball up and yank the money as well. Dole it out as they earn it and no more private jets to much of anything if they are not working. No more diplomatic VIP areas for heads of state, no more diplomatic immunity, no more waltzing into other nations on whim. No more setting up in the States as if they were born to it. Just for once, make them earn that status and make them earn their money. No more couture or designer gowns and no more staff putting up with overwork, low pay, and abusive behavior. No more lawsuits against the press (if the money is yanked the royals can't afford to pay the lawyers) and no more social media accounts. No more LinkedIn, no more IMDB, no more Instagram or Snap Chat or YouTube. No more Pinterest, no more Facebook, no more nothing. The real problem with modern royals is how there are no more restraints on their behavior and no more boundaries and they just do what pleases them and make everyone arrange it or get out of their way. No more BS activism and no more vanity tours. They have to be earned and they have to travel with actual politicians or heads of state.
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Post by Admin on Mar 12, 2023 20:56:00 GMT
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Post by Admin on Mar 23, 2023 13:21:10 GMT
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Post by Admin on Mar 23, 2023 13:22:23 GMT
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Post by Admin on Mar 23, 2023 13:23:35 GMT
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Post by kueifei on Mar 24, 2023 22:54:10 GMT
After this pandemic, there will be a reckoning; people will be in shock and will be immobilized, but they will need someone to blame and the royals might just be served up to the public wrath. There is no way that anyone will forget that when called, royals refused to answer the call. Princess Sofia did some work in a COVID ward, but it was just a few token weeks and it was something that she quit and probably only did part time. If the politicians are smart, they will use this to put a stop to these people and either set boundaries (pathetic since the royals as full adults should have more self control) and grit their teeth or shut it all down.
If it is shut down, I hope the U.S. Government does not let them refugee here to the States.
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Post by Admin on Apr 6, 2023 13:20:28 GMT
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/commentisfree/2023/apr/05/royal-family-monarchy-cost-of-the-crown#commentsCost of the crown King Charles III For something so hollow, the royal family is astonishingly expensive Polly Toynbee The trouble with the monarchy is not that it is too powerful but that it is utterly useless, a worthless vacuum shrouded in ceremony Wed 5 Apr 2023 16.28 BST “Not My King,” say the yellow T-shirts of the anti-monarchists TV cameras may swerve around in the coronation crowds. But he is our king, willy-nilly, like it or not, as he and his family are our dependants. The Guardian’s deep dive into the royal family’s finances shows our monarchy costs a fortune, more than anyone else’s in Europe.
The Borbones of Spain cost a mere £7.4m a year, while we pay our Windsors a very pricey £86m. And that’s before we add in the roughly £40m a year in revenues from their Duchy estates – adding up to £1.2bn over the years. That’s not much really, monarchists may claim. Out of £1tn in annual government spending, the royals’ consumption of taxpayers money is a mere bagatelle, a fleabite.
If that’s what the royals think, you might wonder why they are so exceptionally secretive about anything touching on their wealth and incomes. Why are the wills of even obscure royals locked away from the public gaze? It may be because they think that most of their subjects would consider their incomes vast.
How big? Just £1m of the king’s income would buy five AgeUK day centres, reopening ones shut by austerity. Or it could train 250 early years educators for nurseries, says the Early Years Alliance. Just one of his millions would pay for 25,000 GP appointments, says the King’s Fund. The annual public funding for the royals would pay for 30 hours of childcare per week for almost 13,000 three- and four-year-olds for a year, says the IFS. The king is paid more than the cost of all London’s street lighting. That £1.2bn from the Duchies would pay for 30,000 nurses for a year. Money spent on the monarchy seems a lot or a little depending on whether you think one king is worth more than 4,000 teachers.
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Post by kueifei on Apr 14, 2023 3:42:55 GMT
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/commentisfree/2023/apr/05/royal-family-monarchy-cost-of-the-crown#commentsCost of the crown King Charles III For something so hollow, the royal family is astonishingly expensive Polly Toynbee The trouble with the monarchy is not that it is too powerful but that it is utterly useless, a worthless vacuum shrouded in ceremony Wed 5 Apr 2023 16.28 BST “Not My King,” say the yellow T-shirts of the anti-monarchists TV cameras may swerve around in the coronation crowds. But he is our king, willy-nilly, like it or not, as he and his family are our dependants. The Guardian’s deep dive into the royal family’s finances shows our monarchy costs a fortune, more than anyone else’s in Europe.
The Borbones of Spain cost a mere £7.4m a year, while we pay our Windsors a very pricey £86m. And that’s before we add in the roughly £40m a year in revenues from their Duchy estates – adding up to £1.2bn over the years. That’s not much really, monarchists may claim. Out of £1tn in annual government spending, the royals’ consumption of taxpayers money is a mere bagatelle, a fleabite.
If that’s what the royals think, you might wonder why they are so exceptionally secretive about anything touching on their wealth and incomes. Why are the wills of even obscure royals locked away from the public gaze? It may be because they think that most of their subjects would consider their incomes vast.
How big? Just £1m of the king’s income would buy five AgeUK day centres, reopening ones shut by austerity. Or it could train 250 early years educators for nurseries, says the Early Years Alliance. Just one of his millions would pay for 25,000 GP appointments, says the King’s Fund. The annual public funding for the royals would pay for 30 hours of childcare per week for almost 13,000 three- and four-year-olds for a year, says the IFS. The king is paid more than the cost of all London’s street lighting. That £1.2bn from the Duchies would pay for 30,000 nurses for a year. Money spent on the monarchy seems a lot or a little depending on whether you think one king is worth more than 4,000 teachers.
Just one million could buy pensions for veterans, it would buy pensions for teachers, it could buy pensions for a great many laborers who are in need of secure money. It could pay the tuition bills of numerous students and it could successfully help the government reach out and maintain financial stability and abundance for the general population. All that money sitting in the accounts of greedy myopic Germans and they act like it's their money.
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Post by Admin on Apr 14, 2023 11:54:06 GMT
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/commentisfree/2023/apr/05/royal-family-monarchy-cost-of-the-crown#commentsCost of the crown King Charles III For something so hollow, the royal family is astonishingly expensive Polly Toynbee The trouble with the monarchy is not that it is too powerful but that it is utterly useless, a worthless vacuum shrouded in ceremony Wed 5 Apr 2023 16.28 BST “Not My King,” say the yellow T-shirts of the anti-monarchists TV cameras may swerve around in the coronation crowds. But he is our king, willy-nilly, like it or not, as he and his family are our dependants. The Guardian’s deep dive into the royal family’s finances shows our monarchy costs a fortune, more than anyone else’s in Europe.
The Borbones of Spain cost a mere £7.4m a year, while we pay our Windsors a very pricey £86m. And that’s before we add in the roughly £40m a year in revenues from their Duchy estates – adding up to £1.2bn over the years. That’s not much really, monarchists may claim. Out of £1tn in annual government spending, the royals’ consumption of taxpayers money is a mere bagatelle, a fleabite.
If that’s what the royals think, you might wonder why they are so exceptionally secretive about anything touching on their wealth and incomes. Why are the wills of even obscure royals locked away from the public gaze? It may be because they think that most of their subjects would consider their incomes vast.
How big? Just £1m of the king’s income would buy five AgeUK day centres, reopening ones shut by austerity. Or it could train 250 early years educators for nurseries, says the Early Years Alliance. Just one of his millions would pay for 25,000 GP appointments, says the King’s Fund. The annual public funding for the royals would pay for 30 hours of childcare per week for almost 13,000 three- and four-year-olds for a year, says the IFS. The king is paid more than the cost of all London’s street lighting. That £1.2bn from the Duchies would pay for 30,000 nurses for a year. Money spent on the monarchy seems a lot or a little depending on whether you think one king is worth more than 4,000 teachers. Just one million could buy pensions for veterans, it would buy pensions for teachers, it could buy pensions for a great many laborers who are in need of secure money. It could pay the tuition bills of numerous students and it could successfully help the government reach out and maintain financial stability and abundance for the general population. All that money sitting in the accounts of greedy myopic Germans and they act like it's their money.
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Post by kueifei on Apr 14, 2023 14:42:57 GMT
I sometimes wonder why they have all this money, but insist on playing poor. Increasingly, the Windsors show themselves to have a lot of cash, but refuse to drop the mentality that they are in fact people of moderate means. Whining about the cost of dry cleaning or grossly underpaying their staff or insulting merchants by wheedling them for discounts or outright freebies. Make me sick with disgust. They grant royal insignia to shops and demand freebies and discounts and then underpay their staff or file lawsuits making it clear that they don't care if they are sabotaging the ability of others to pay their bills or for their home. Makes me sick. HME played at being thrifty, but she was thrifty by choice. It's like everything is a game to royalty. ON another thread, in regards to CP Amalia, someone mentioned sending her to anonymous schooling in the States, but with her security and (UNEARNED) status as a head of state, she would need secret service security and she would be a BURDEN on taxpayers. Much of my dislike is how they insist on burdening themselves on the shoulders of others and distracting their governments from being able ot get on with their own work. Royals these days insist on going where they are not invited, hanging around classes of people they do not belong around (anonymous privilege is not their place/nightclubs/regular schooling/asinine waitress jobs) and it is in my view that sate visits are just about the rellies getting together, nothing actually substantial. No benefit and certainly it's not like they are coming off of signing a treaty and celebrating newly bought peace. Just rellies getting together on the taxpayer dime. I bet anything that after this pandemic, there will not be any time lost for the royals in taking credit and celebrating by a bunch of appearances in condescending the actual workers and 'receiving' doctors in the most condescending possible way and politicians will have to put up with more partying for royalty and watching royals take credit for all of the work that medical workers put in. Then the heirs/heiresses will end up being paraded as the future leaders of this world and there will be limitless fawning coverage about how hard the heirs worked to keep things running (another lie). Maybe Princess Kate will bring out her pie charts and show how she plans on helping rebuild the economy. William will then shout his mouth off about how his mother would have 'adored' medical workers (and so on and so forth) and I am certain that all of them will somehow find a way to promote themselves through the entire healing process.
Royals these days remind me of that pointless 'friend' who ends up sticking around and after a certain point, becomes in the way and disruptive. Never growing beyond the latest bright idea.
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Post by kueifei on Apr 14, 2023 16:21:00 GMT
What makes me angriest, is how people on disability get dumped on, getting kicked while already down, and these non-disabled taxpayer parasites get he privilege of mounds of cash and the entitlement of having their azzes kissed. They do nothing, contribute nothing, and they are not disabled, yet they get all the pampering and sympathy and a## kissing that they don't deserve. People who are disabled can't help themselves at times and it is clear that royals can, but get all the sympathy and fawning. I'm angry that the disabled don't always get to live in nice places, don't always get to have sincere willing help, and get dumped on as loser who aren't trying enough. Meanwhile Amalia grows fatter by the week and has columnists chastising people for calling her what she is, grossly obese. No one can chastise the already overprotected, but the struggling have to put up with abuse heaped on them despite the fact that it is not easy in this world.
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Post by Admin on Apr 14, 2023 17:10:16 GMT
What makes me angriest, is how people on disability get dumped on, getting kicked while already down, and these non-disabled taxpayer parasites get he privilege of mounds of cash and the entitlement of having their azzes kissed. They do nothing, contribute nothing, and they are not disabled, yet they get all the pampering and sympathy and a## kissing that they don't deserve. People who are disabled can't help themselves at times and it is clear that royals can, but get all the sympathy and fawning. I'm angry that the disabled don't always get to live in nice places, don't always get to have sincere willing help, and get dumped on as loser who aren't trying enough. Meanwhile Amalia grows fatter by the week and has columnists chastising people for calling her what she is, grossly obese. No one can chastise the already overprotected, but the struggling have to put up with abuse heaped on them despite the fact that it is not easy in this world. These are just great and spot on- I will contribute more later. I totally agree and get angry with all the unfairness and hypocrisy. We cannot go back as before with fawning over the hyper privileged- they didnt keep society going now, did they? |
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Post by kueifei on Apr 14, 2023 17:59:30 GMT
What makes me angriest, is how people on disability get dumped on, getting kicked while already down, and these non-disabled taxpayer parasites get he privilege of mounds of cash and the entitlement of having their azzes kissed. They do nothing, contribute nothing, and they are not disabled, yet they get all the pampering and sympathy and a## kissing that they don't deserve. People who are disabled can't help themselves at times and it is clear that royals can, but get all the sympathy and fawning. I'm angry that the disabled don't always get to live in nice places, don't always get to have sincere willing help, and get dumped on as loser who aren't trying enough. Meanwhile Amalia grows fatter by the week and has columnists chastising people for calling her what she is, grossly obese. No one can chastise the already overprotected, but the struggling have to put up with abuse heaped on them despite the fact that it is not easy in this world. These are just great and spot on- I will contribute more later. I totally agree and get angry with all the unfairness and hypocrisy. We cannot go back as before with fawning over the hyper privileged- they didnt keep society going now, did they?
It used to be that the more privileged you were, the more you were expected to be independent at the earliest possible age, get into some form of a profession that contributes and always get actively involved and as for marriage, you married someone who was vetted and who you knew was solid and safe and as a result, your life was great as long as you didn't screw up too badly. You stayed out of places where you knew you don't belong and you ran the family business honorably and with respect because it was how you maintained the good family name/reputation. You had a great life and didn't overthink since there was nothing that needed to be thought out. You took in struggling relatives, you lent help to the struggling, and gave generously to church. You didn't play at being homeless, or middle class, and you lived non-ostentatiously with private dignity.
These days it's the opposite. I think I blame Diana and Fergie for this change. Say what you will about Windsor myopia, they didn't raise their kids to believe that they could switch on whim or even think to live like a normal middle class private citizen. They knew better even if they didn't like it. Diana raised her brat sons to jet set and party on taxpayer cash and demand more and meanwhile the rest of Europe has followed suit. All the royals are jet setting and mixing with people who have worst pasts than their reputations and in my view, the royal families are loaded with a bunch of jet setters and a bunch of riff raff consorts who are worse than the most decadent aristocrat. these days they make it clear that doing public appearances is putting them out and I am certain that they are glad thye no longer have to pretend that they want to do anything effective for their nation.
Not that they could if they wanted with their lack of concrete qualifications or gravitas or credibility.
All of them are like useless housewives, but the worst of it is is how they meddle in things that are really not their business and therefore make it harder for people to do their jobs. If I were a business delegate I would dislike seeing a royal there who hasn't put in the long hours of anything gets to tag along and be put first. If royals worked half as hard at education/training as they do whining and partying, they would be of practical help and have the respect and credibility they crave.
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Post by Admin on Apr 28, 2023 18:55:16 GMT
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Post by Admin on Apr 30, 2023 17:51:29 GMT
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Post by Admin on Apr 30, 2023 17:52:05 GMT
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Post by Admin on Apr 30, 2023 18:38:18 GMT
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Post by Admin on Apr 30, 2023 19:20:53 GMT
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Post by kueifei on May 1, 2023 16:56:12 GMT
If I were a republican I would be jolly about the impending arrival of royals from around the world. I would be merrily citing all that designer/couture being worn as paid for by the taxpayers of each nation, the travel costs, and the endless parties as well. Then there is the cost of security, the cost of housing them, and the cost of transportation. There is no way that I would waste time pointing out that while the royals get taxpayer paid for champagne and caviar and who knows what else, I am certain that there are food banks who have run out of food to supply struggling taxpayers with. One thing I do know is that royals get to party while politicians still struggle to contain an already out of control pandemic and mess.
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Post by Admin on May 6, 2023 14:30:53 GMT
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tale BS.
#JamesMiddleton