Comments on: A royal budget bonanza

By: leigh richards

leigh richards — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 18:34:29 +0000

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!

By: Bethan

Bethan — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 17:46:25 +0000

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…

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SOCIALIST UNITY » TEN YOU MAY HAVE MISSED — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 19:33:53 +0000

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By: Nathan Demsky

Nathan Demsky — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:16:35 +0000

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fairer society where the difference between rich and poor is much smaller and where The Royal Family will be seen as an outdated anachronism.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.