“According to a recent poll, more than 70 percent of Britons under the age of 50 are indifferent to the coronation. Even so, a staggering 250 million pounds ($315m) of magicked-up taxpayer money will be spent on this single day even as thousands of nurses, doctors, teachers and other key public workers have been told for months there is no money in the coffers to offer them a meaningful pay rise.”

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2023/5/5/with-charles-iii-coronation-colonialism-is-coming-home-to-roost

#monarchy #uk #inequality #letThemEatCake

With Charles III coronation, colonialism is coming home to roost

From a plundered economy to a police force ready to crush protests, Britain today looks like its colonies once did.

Al Jazeera

@aral Can you imagine how much more popular he would be, how much more relevant and contemporary, if he’d simply asked how much all this would cost and then instead had a simple ceremony and instructed that exact amount of money be given directly to these people who need and deserve it?

You want people under 50 to care about the monarchy? Show people under 50 that the monarchy cares about them.

@reay Alas, this is not the way of kings.
@reay @aral yes, but the problem is, monarchy *doesn't* care about them.
That's kind of a missing prerequisite...