Nonsense. 100% of Crown Estate profits always goes to the government and is spent on public services. The Sovereign Grant is under review, and he’s used the opportunity to pretend he’s being generous or something.
And their loyal media lapdogs are only too happy to oblige him.
How about we just get rid of the monarchy, and use all royal lands for the public good?
The professional victims will be along for their piece. Say its reparations for Harry not getting the biggest bedroom and Meghan having to not wear the same colour as the queen.
Maybe we could set up a regular system for doing this. Like some sort of percent of your income that goes to the national purse.
This is all just a distraction from the exercise of power. A bunch of useful idiots wasting their time and energy whining about a thing that makes *no fucking difference*. No wonder things are so shit when people haven’t got the wits to understand this.
Meanwhile the government are passing anti-strike laws, giving police unlimited powers to suppress dissent, the roads are a mess, the NHS is failing, and so on.
But sure, let’s fucking argue about about this trivia some more.
Good.
It would have been morally indefensible and politically dangerous to not do this, but let’s not lose sight of the forest for the trees. This is a good thing done voluntarily. Nice one, Charlie.
Lmao, this sub is very very angry that HMRC are getting a few hundred million quid more than they would usually..
Fucking state of you lot. Honestly.
The King does not manage the Crown Estate. The Crown Estate is managed by the Crown Estate Board of Commissioners on behalf of the Crown. All net profit is already directed to the Treasury as per the original agreement between George III and Parliament, an agreement that every monarch since (including Charles III) has repeated.
So… While it is a nice gesture, it isn’t really up to *him* to decide where those profits go. He can express where he *wishes* them to go.
I’m not sure what take I’m reading here…
Are we saying the King is more responsible— accountable even for us and our prosperity than our government?
Cromwell’s ghost what fkn timeline’s this?
I think many people will be surprised to see Charles is far more in touch with the people than the current government and has been much of his life
“King says dog fighting is bad”
“HOW VERY DARE HE. DOWN WITH THE MONARCHY. HE IS JUST PRETENDING TO BE GOOD. I AM GOING TO GET SOME DOGS TO FIGHT RIGHT NOW”
Well that’s good, more offshore wind farms couldn’t hurt especially during current times
Good on you Charlie, fuck the haters, God bless our King!
*American that saw this post on my news tab*
“That sounds great! I’m curious what good will be done and how well this is being received in the comments.”
“Oh…”
Gotta say, I’ve been impressed with him so far. He seems to be taking a lot of good steps.
When _a monarchy_ gives more back to the nation while the _elected parliament_ takes health care and public benefits away.
I’ll bet most of the people who make comments about the royal family have no idea how much money they make for the country in real cash terms and in the business that wants to be associated with the royal family….
There was a public outcry about the cost of the fire damage at Windsor castle….. the press started to protest against the tax payers footing the repairs and eventually the queen did pay, but the part of the castle that had the fire was not part of the residence but the open to the public section that has nothing to do with the royal family…… it’s like living in a block of flats and having to pay for the fire damage in the public entrance……
Or what about the demand that the queen should pay tax on the money received from the entrance to the Tower of London and all the other palace and castles ……. the press pushed and pushed the issue that it became a big deal……… the biggest problem with the demand to force the queen to pay tax was quite simply that the queen didn’t receive one penny of the money it all went directly to the government coffers,,in the end the only way to put an end to it was to give the queen the money and she paid the tax…….. the manipulation of the people by the press actually lost a big chunk of revenue just to feel somehow the campaign was successful……
This is not just about money it’s about the culture and traditions of the British people that make other countries jealous and want to see it destroyed to bring us down to their level
Megan and Harry will be mad and do an interview about it…
Hot take (at least by Canadian standards): while I’m still iffy on calling him our King, I’m glad to see that sausagefingers is actually operating on at least some level of decency. Is this likely a big PR thing for a new regent? Yeah, most definitely. But I’d rather see “look at me” stunts that are like this over stuff like a solid gold carriage.
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Nonsense. 100% of Crown Estate profits always goes to the government and is spent on public services. The Sovereign Grant is under review, and he’s used the opportunity to pretend he’s being generous or something.
And their loyal media lapdogs are only too happy to oblige him.
How about we just get rid of the monarchy, and use all royal lands for the public good?
The professional victims will be along for their piece. Say its reparations for Harry not getting the biggest bedroom and Meghan having to not wear the same colour as the queen.
Maybe we could set up a regular system for doing this. Like some sort of percent of your income that goes to the national purse.
This is all just a distraction from the exercise of power. A bunch of useful idiots wasting their time and energy whining about a thing that makes *no fucking difference*. No wonder things are so shit when people haven’t got the wits to understand this.
Meanwhile the government are passing anti-strike laws, giving police unlimited powers to suppress dissent, the roads are a mess, the NHS is failing, and so on.
But sure, let’s fucking argue about about this trivia some more.
Good.
It would have been morally indefensible and politically dangerous to not do this, but let’s not lose sight of the forest for the trees. This is a good thing done voluntarily. Nice one, Charlie.
Lmao, this sub is very very angry that HMRC are getting a few hundred million quid more than they would usually..
Fucking state of you lot. Honestly.
The King does not manage the Crown Estate. The Crown Estate is managed by the Crown Estate Board of Commissioners on behalf of the Crown. All net profit is already directed to the Treasury as per the original agreement between George III and Parliament, an agreement that every monarch since (including Charles III) has repeated.
So… While it is a nice gesture, it isn’t really up to *him* to decide where those profits go. He can express where he *wishes* them to go.
I’m not sure what take I’m reading here…
Are we saying the King is more responsible— accountable even for us and our prosperity than our government?
Cromwell’s ghost what fkn timeline’s this?
I think many people will be surprised to see Charles is far more in touch with the people than the current government and has been much of his life
“King says dog fighting is bad”
“HOW VERY DARE HE. DOWN WITH THE MONARCHY. HE IS JUST PRETENDING TO BE GOOD. I AM GOING TO GET SOME DOGS TO FIGHT RIGHT NOW”
Well that’s good, more offshore wind farms couldn’t hurt especially during current times
Good on you Charlie, fuck the haters, God bless our King!
*American that saw this post on my news tab*
“That sounds great! I’m curious what good will be done and how well this is being received in the comments.”
“Oh…”
Gotta say, I’ve been impressed with him so far. He seems to be taking a lot of good steps.
When _a monarchy_ gives more back to the nation while the _elected parliament_ takes health care and public benefits away.
I’ll bet most of the people who make comments about the royal family have no idea how much money they make for the country in real cash terms and in the business that wants to be associated with the royal family….
There was a public outcry about the cost of the fire damage at Windsor castle….. the press started to protest against the tax payers footing the repairs and eventually the queen did pay, but the part of the castle that had the fire was not part of the residence but the open to the public section that has nothing to do with the royal family…… it’s like living in a block of flats and having to pay for the fire damage in the public entrance……
Or what about the demand that the queen should pay tax on the money received from the entrance to the Tower of London and all the other palace and castles ……. the press pushed and pushed the issue that it became a big deal……… the biggest problem with the demand to force the queen to pay tax was quite simply that the queen didn’t receive one penny of the money it all went directly to the government coffers,,in the end the only way to put an end to it was to give the queen the money and she paid the tax…….. the manipulation of the people by the press actually lost a big chunk of revenue just to feel somehow the campaign was successful……
This is not just about money it’s about the culture and traditions of the British people that make other countries jealous and want to see it destroyed to bring us down to their level
Megan and Harry will be mad and do an interview about it…
Hot take (at least by Canadian standards): while I’m still iffy on calling him our King, I’m glad to see that sausagefingers is actually operating on at least some level of decency. Is this likely a big PR thing for a new regent? Yeah, most definitely. But I’d rather see “look at me” stunts that are like this over stuff like a solid gold carriage.