“huge pay rise from UK taxpayers” for King Charles

[arista]

[The King really receiving a
“huge pay rise from UK taxpayers” as
the Guardian puts it?
It's not as simple as that.
It's true the Sovereign Grant will increase to
roughly £125million from 2025-6 and 2026-7,
which can be spun as a 45 per cent increase.]


Lucky Old Git

[Beso]

I'm inserting every pound coin I get up my bottom.

[Liam-]

Actually disgusting, a measly 6% for our doctors and nurses, yet this scroungers gets a 45% pay rise for having the privilege to be born, this country is ****ing backwards I swear

[UserSince2005]

King of what? Sucking dicks?
Not my king.

[Beso]

Actually disgusting, a measly 6% for our doctors and nurses, yet this scroungers gets a 45% pay rise for having the privilege to be born, this country is ****ing backwards I swear

Spot on.

[Swan]

Literally revolting.

[Crimson Dynamo]

King of pay rises!

[Beso]

King of pay rises!

:joker:

[Mystic Mock]

Actually disgusting, a measly 6% for our doctors and nurses, yet this scroungers gets a 45% pay rise for having the privilege to be born, this country is ****ing backwards I swear

Tbh I can't really disagree with this post, especially on the country being backwards part.

We're getting more Alabama by the minute.:hehe:

And yes I played on a negative stereotype, we all know that not everyone from Alabama is like the stereotype though.

[Gusto Brunt]

[The King really receiving a
“huge pay rise from UK taxpayers” as
the Guardian puts it?
It's not as simple as that.
It's true the Sovereign Grant will increase to
roughly £125million from 2025-6 and 2026-7,
which can be spun as a 45 per cent increase.]


Lucky Old Git

Does it make any difference though? He and the family are already loaded.

It's like a 1p pay rise for us normal folk.:joker:

[arista]

What’s behind King Charles’s bumper pay rise?

Greed, lies and a ton of public money
Graham Smith


[There have been growing calls for an end
to royal secrecy in recent months,
with historians, campaigners and
journalists demanding greater access
to the official records of the UK’s head of state.
That secrecy has been compared
unfavourably to MI5, with the royals having
an absolute exemption from the
Freedom of Information Act
while squirrelling away thousands of official
records in their archives in Windsor.

There is a reason why the monarchy is
more secretive than our security services:
it has plenty to hide.
It is not unreasonable to conclude that
the institution is corrupt,
if corruption is the abuse of
public office for personal gain.
Whether it’s using tens of millions
of pounds each year to cover costs
such as travel or palatial homes,
or lobbying the government
in pursuit of their private interests
or political agendas,
the royals exploit their status
and position week in, week out.]


https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/22/royal-secrecy-public-money-crown-estate-king-charles