A royal budget bonanza
Posted on Thursday, April 23, 2009 at 12:31pm
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If you didn’t think the budget was bad enough already- forcing more people into debt and financial hardship, then imagine how I felt when I read that Prince Charles and his family will be set to GAIN from the budget announcement yesterday. The Daily Telegraph reports that through supplementary documents of the budget as part of the Amendment to the 1993 Memorandum of Understanding on Royal Taxation, Charles will be given the opportunity to refer the cost of an office that he recently set up to support his sons pr mega machine – to the taxpayer!
As Graham Smith from the organisation Republic said, “As the country struggles to deal with massive increases in debt, and while the rich are being asked to fund government spending through a hike in the top rate of tax, we now find Charles dipping his hand further into our pockets.’
While we are campaigning in Wales tirelessly to call on the Government to ensure that child poverty is eradicated by 2020, calling for support for businesses and constituents, Darling thought it right and proper to try and deceive us by slipping this in to the budget. And this is all so that the Royals can promote their ‘charity’ work, while at the same time being paid to do it by the public. What irony.
And again, this just gives me another reason to say why Wales needs more powers, and a future free of an archaic, out dated Monarchy.
Bethan, the Royal Family didn’t cause the current economic woes, and getting rid of them won’t solve them. Conflating the two issues simply muddies the water, rather like tabloids do every day.
By all means call for a fairer society where the difference between rich and poor is much smaller and where The Royal Family will be seen as an outdated anachronism. But don’t pick on Charlie as the embodiment 50 years of failed government economic policies. It provides just the kind of irrelevant diversion that our Westminster politicians relish.
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nathan- I am not picking on Charles as the embodiment of 50 years of failed government economic policies, but you have to admit that this policy does not reflect positively on the current government. If the Royal Family wanted to evolve and develop with the ages, then they would refuse such hand outs from the government. Have they ever done that? No, I thought not…
there was nothing ‘personal’ in bethan’s criticism of mr charles windsor – to give him his proper name -im sure!
But why should someone enjoy a lavish billionaire lifestyle, owning huge swathes of land and enormous and fully staffed properties purely because of who they are? The rest of us have to work in life for what we get – charles windsor and his kind dont have to lift a finger!!!
This obscene medieval arrangement has to go its as simple as that! Then charles and his family can go out and work for a living like the rest of us have to do!