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Cost of King Charles’s coronation¹: £250m
Amount cut from social care budget²: £250m
Staunchly remaining a royalist fool in the 21st century: priceless.
#uk #monarchy #notMyKing #democracy #equality #humanRights
¹ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/king-charles-iiis-coronation-expected-cost-taxpayers-around-250m-1715507
@aral This is just too upsetting to ignore 
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Waiting for the counter argument : but look at the boost in economy from selling official mugs!
@aral It is time to sunset the royal houses of europe. Norway too! It's such a shit show.
@aral And it's not that many years until the next ruler. 
@aral This seemed very expensive to me, so I checked and… the total budget for the coronation of king Philippe of Belgium back in 2013 was 12395€ (1).
HOLY SHIT
How the heck does a coronation cost £250 million? It makes no sense
A large portion of it was security costs, UK population is bitterly divided over the monarchy and politics in general, HM Forces are currrently actively engaged in a full scale war in Europe (making His Majesty a big target). Ofc it would have been better to make it a lower key affair (requiring less cops/security) but the Establishment is too stubborn for that...
@aral I'm not a huge fan of the monarchy. It would be nice to have a reinvigorated, modern democracy. But I don't care about the cost of ceremonies like the coronation, because those are part of pretty much every state - it's just that we have a shiny crown and stuff in it.
£250m is about £8 per taxpayer (of course, more for higher rate and none for people below the tax threshold).
"Defence" spending is about £1500 per taxpayer and that is each year.
@aral Mind you, the Monarchy probably doesn't help as it's part of the class system which supports the Tories...
Just wary of Brexit Bus-style arguments. The government could increase social care spending at a snap if they wanted to actually help people. But they don't, because they don't 
I think the monarchy is quite good, a stability factor
And yes u're totally right, only educated people understand that those ¼ billion is nothing in comparison to all the other expenditures
All people complaining are very badly educated and only looking for attacking sth
It's an education problem
@aral "but I Iove to fit in, if I had to think for myself I'd get sad and angry" - the Royalist
@aral - Think how much dough you guys make when credulous Americans come over to take antic pictures with them beaver-headed statue dudes!
@aral That's damn harrowing.
@aral not necessarily connected, but sends the message loud and clear.
@N0cturno Indeed.
That's a naive equation
The British monarchy is quite a stability factor in the world
It's absolutely worth the ¼ billion
Look at how much all ur democratically elected politicians waste moneys of totally different magnitudes
The UK is rich enough
The problem is not a lack of money
The problem is that the money doesn't reach the those who need it, namely the weakest of the weakest
Homelessness or generally housing problems could be solved virtually immediately
It's just not done
@MichaelRoth @aral then why didn’t they use their own money to pay for their party?
@MichaelRoth @aral ah yes. Being dressed, fed, driven, your “house” cleaned, your laundry done, food shopped, your “job” prepped for your “smile and wave”, fawned over, private secretaries…in your multiple castles, is really rough!
@aral To make this more galling, the cost of the London 2012 Opening Ceremony was about £35 million.
@aral don't be fooled into thinking that replacing the monarchy would actually get that money spent on social care....instead it will go for tax cuts.
A lot of polling around the monarchy, and the inevitable change to the constitution that it would require. Changing the constitution would not be so dangerous except for the corporate trained seals sitting around the table if it were to happen. Especially when we may lose our federal protection if corp media succeeds with their gaslighting
@aral Sydney drew some flack over here for only doing something minor: https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/sydney-will-light-just-two-landmarks-for-the-coronation-and-it-s-not-the-two-you-think-20230505-p5d5yv.html
@aral The UK is a quite bizarre place. Has it not occurred to the bureaucrats and technocrats organising this whole show that:
1. The British royal family is well past rich enough to pay for its own shows, such as this coronation.
2. "The UK taxpayers include nurses, teachers, transport workers and other public servants that we have witnessed striking for higher pay" because people in #Britain have either frozen or starved to death this past winter for not being able to afford heating or food?
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All my life I've heard claims that a few 'royals' are more important than millions of poor people, and therefore more deserving of (literally) state aid. I think the idea is that, if the 'monarchy' thrives, we all do. Except that we clearly don't...
@aral @SteveJonesnono1 best paid servant!