sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al to UK Politics@feddit.uk · 2 months agoRoyal finances: Monarchy to get £45m extra funding - BBC Newswww.bbc.co.ukexternal-linkmessage-square10fedilinkarrow-up129arrow-down12
arrow-up127arrow-down1external-linkRoyal finances: Monarchy to get £45m extra funding - BBC Newswww.bbc.co.uksabreW4K3@lazysoci.al to UK Politics@feddit.uk · 2 months agomessage-square10fedilink
minus-square1rrelinkfedilinkarrow-up7arrow-down1·edit-22 months agoI guess “government getting 340 million more from monarchy this year” doesn’t have quite the same ring to it
minus-squareSkullgrid@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down1·2 months agoIt would have been even worse had there been no king, if it was given to the conservatives to control. Instead of renewables, it would have probably gone to fracking
minus-squaretaanegl@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down1·2 months agoLiberalists cry into their guano coffee. “Nooo! You’re not supposed to do that!” But honestly, if a European monarchy has not become self sustaining by this point, they should be dissolved, but goddamn they be raking in the money. Also, the nordic monarchies do more as philanthropists than most billionaires and they focus on cultural preservation. The American brain cannot comprehend.
I guess “government getting 340 million more from monarchy this year” doesn’t have quite the same ring to it
It would have been even worse had there been no king, if it was given to the conservatives to control. Instead of renewables, it would have probably gone to fracking
Liberalists cry into their guano coffee. “Nooo! You’re not supposed to do that!”
But honestly, if a European monarchy has not become self sustaining by this point, they should be dissolved, but goddamn they be raking in the money.
Also, the nordic monarchies do more as philanthropists than most billionaires and they focus on cultural preservation.
The American brain cannot comprehend.