The bombshell was one no one noticed. Four months ago, as George Osborne made his first Budget speech to the Commons unleashing the biggest public spending cuts in living memory, he slipped in a brief - and almost unnoticed - passage about the financing of the Royal Family.
The Chancellor said he intended to scrap the Civil List system that has been in place since 1760 - and that to most people has worked pretty well - and replace it with a new one.
To the uninitiated, this sounded like a welcome piece of computer-age modernisation. But, in fact, it is the very opposite.


Charles, whose extravagance has even been criticised by the Queen, wasn’t playing things by halves. His original proposal, presented to the Thatcher government (only to see it refused), was that the entire income from the Crown Estates should revert to the sovereign, just as it did before George III was forced to strike a deal with ministers.
The Estate’s income is immense: £211million last year and it is expected to rise to a whopping £450million by 2020. It was already approaching £60million - no small sum - when, as Charles’ official biographer Jonathan Dimbleby put it back in 1994, he ‘floated the notion’ after ‘his back-of-an-envelope calculations (showed) it would more than match the total government expenditure on the monarchy’.


www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1343143...st-king-history.html

You poor bastards, when is this shit going to end

The Middleton's business Party Pieces is among companies who sell pinatas made by workers who are paid as little as 10p an hour
The business said they would urgently investigate the conditions
Monica Villegas works 10 hours a day, seven days a week and gets her daughter, 5, and son, 18 to help her



I'm fucking beyond words

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2283104...re-Party-Pieces.html

And by 'urgently investigate', they probably mean sack that woman for making her circumstances known publicly.

What? We're acting like complete bastards, you say? We shall urgently investigates ourselves then.

The greed of the royals is obscene and to my mind, it's just inexplicable that they are tolerated, let alone adored, by so many. It's madness.

Them and us:’ One in four children living in poverty in UK

I'm not sure "richest king in history" is accurate, as I'm not aware that they've ever given up any of the stupendous wealth that they've already acquired. £450 million isn't a piss in a pot for them, and what do they need money for anyway, they're not obliged to buy anything. The monarch's head is on the fucking money, and the Crown controls everything in Britain. It's 'Royal Mint', 'Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs', 'Crown Court', 'Royal Mail', etc. It's the Crown that MPs swear allegiance to, not the electorate. These things are just hidden in plain sight, yet people fail to see them.