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[–] Syldon@feddit.uk 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] thehatfox@lemmy.world 29 points 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.

[–] Emperor@feddit.uk 19 points 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.”

[–] Melpomene@kbin.social 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Doesn't a pay raise suggest that there's some sort of work involved? Call it what it is... royal welfare.

[–] damnYouSun@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

We'll be does do some stuff.

I don't necessarily think we need for your family but at the same time there's so many fuxked up things in this country to get worked up, about I just can't really bring myself to be all that bothered.

[–] anteaters@feddit.de 15 points 1 year ago

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

[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Is this what they meant when they said Brexit would increase wages?

[–] Facelikeapotato@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

Oh, how nice for him. I switched from name brand olive oil spread to generic table spread in 1kg tubs.

[–] Electricorchestra@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Everything is sp bloody expensive now he probably needs it.

[–] youessbee@feddit.uk 6 points 1 year ago

His Tesco bills just keep soaring.

[–] nonearther@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

Leave the old chap alone.

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

[–] rayquetzalcoatl@feddit.uk 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 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.

[–] FatLegTed@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago

He'll be able to afford a new pen and some more socks now then.

Poor old sod.

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