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Aral Balkan“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.”
Kevin McKay@aral While I totally agree that the spending in question is a waste of funds, and that salaries of nurses, teachers, and others should be the higher priority, a one-time expenditure doesn't create a permanent budgetary obligation into the future. So it's not the same thing when politicians are trying to balance budgets from tax revenue projections into the future.
Mrs Cloudy@kevmckonline @aral how old is Charles? Do you imagine the Government of the day has a special Royal funeral/jubilee/coronation/paying off victims fund'?
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Davos ☭ Communist Party USA@TCatInReality @aral They totally are unfit to govern.
@TCatInReality @aral And actively malicious.
FediThing has moved!I don't think the UK government even thinks about a majority of its citizens. It only cares about a majority of its supporters, which will skew heavily towards people over 50 (I think their party membership is in its 70s?).
It's the end result of an electoral system where the government is chosen by a minority of voters, and elections are decided by a tiny number of seats with close results.
Brexit, 1960s-style anti-immigration rhetoric, rants against the metric system, use of fahrenheit etc is designed to get nostalgia hits for their likely voters.
Charlie Stross@FediThing @aral I've been saying for years that since about the early 2000s at the latest the UK has been run as a gerontocracy. Politics is about appeasing the pensioners because they turn out to vote and they own property.
Athanasius HAS MOVED@aral For reference, that would be this poll:
https://yougov.co.uk/topics/politics/survey-results/daily/2023/04/13/b7aff/1
April Thomas@aral At this point, seems more like a national mascot....
Reay Jespersen@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.
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Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈@aral this is not a serious island and there are no serious people in charge.
They would never be allowed near power, just liars and frauds here.
They would never be allowed near power, just liars and frauds here.
Rimi B. Chatterjee@aral Charles the Turd indeed.
Fábio Costa 🐇🕐🎩☕@aral I see this on this way... It's a demonstration that UK needs to do to say they are still relevant
Karim Le Vallois@aral Standard, they’ll always find money for the main tourist attraction of the country. I work close to Buckingham Palace and confirm 99% of the people milling around London for the coronation were tourists, the other 1% were the extreme royalists wearing Union Jack suits.
toxtethogrady@aral The money can always be created out of thin air. Priorities, priorities...
InfiniteOne@aral @chargrille The bigger picture is, how a society is psychologically conditioned over time, to believe that somehow aristocracy should exist. 🤯 They steal wealth from others to provide for their lifestyle. That’s it. Nothing more, nothing less.
M.S. Bellows, Jr.@aral I'm convinced the only way to save the monarchy at this point is for everyone else to abdicate to Harry and Meghan, allowing them to recast the monarchy as a low-profile, privilege-renouncing, purely symbolic emblem of a modern, multiracial, culturally egalitarian commonwealth. Absent that? It's dead. By 2050 Sweden will have a stronger monarchy than England.
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