Rancid wrote:Agreed. If you notice, the royal family invest all of their money abroad. Precisely because they don't give a shit about the citizens at home.
I agree with 99% of what you say^, but, the fact is, it's not 'their' money they invest abroad, it's TAXPAYERS money, which they receive through the 'Privy Purse', also through the various tax breaks that the government accord them. Remember, the U.K' has a 'monarchy' who is 'Head of State', a servant of the people, yet, we taxpayers are keeping that family, that has a 'sense-of-entitlement' unlike any benefit claimant, at huge cost.
Why is that 'wrong', it's wrong, because, for a nation that has just ONE 'Head-of-State', it is wrong to pay the whole family an income out of that public purse, we do NOT employ them, we only employ the 'Head-of-State'.
That waste of space, Prince Charles has the 'Duchy of Cornwall, which is just one of many sources of income that he receives.
He is a pariah on the public purse, his life has been one of unfettered state support, for a future role as 'King', yet nobody thinks of him as such.
We should be like the USSR, shoot the lot of them or strip them all of our wealth, make them do what everyone else does & that is to work for their keep.