"Ooh look, everyone, it's raining taxpayer money again. Isn't one lucky?"
The Royal Family is to be exempt from any cuts in public spending next year when its civil list funding is settled for the next 10 years, says The Guardian.
MPs will be powerless to reduce the £7.9m a year paid under the civil list because of an obscure deal struck between Buckingham Palace and the Treasury in 1972 when the current legislation governing royal finances was drawn up. (Under the Tories, by any chance? Oh yes – it was that old tosser, Edward Heath.)
Palace officials made clear earlier this summer that they are actually seeking a rise in the annual civil list payment to cover “increased costs” despite the fact that they currently have a £21m surplus in the reserves on the civil list account. Wonder what the interest is on that, ma’am…?
What a bunch of spongers.
Time to make them all redundant like a large number of us seem to be at the moment.
We hope they’ll have the good sense to go before they’re pushed, Oliver Cromwell-style.
We don’t need them and the morally disgusting values they represent.
Why do we tolerate the number of foreigners who arrive on our shores – often illegally – and then claim housing that should be reserved for British-born citizens? In just ten years, the number of UK born tenants in social housing in the UK has fallen by about 1.2 million while non UK-born tenants have increased by 300,000.
As a result, the proportion of foreign born has increased from 7.2% to 11.1% – an increase of 54%. Immigration has added nearly three million to the population of the UK over the same period, mainly in England.
Earlier this month the Government announced plans to build 2,000 homes in England, which it described as ‘the biggest social housing building project in England for over 20 years’.
Big deal.
This would evidently be enough to meet the projected household formation of new immigrants for just over a week.
Unless it’s controlled, immigration will add the equivalent of 7 cities the size of Birmingham over the next 20 years.
Why don’t we just hand them all the keys to our homes, our jobs and the whole bloody country and we’ll f*** off somewhere else?
We hate the weather, the loony royal family and the cheating politicians, anyway, so let’s leave them to it and the best of British…
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If you read the Tory blog, ‘conservativehome‘, you’ll see they’re deluding themselves into thinking that David ‘call me Dave’ Cameron has escaped his ‘toff’ tag just because Labour aren’t using it as a jibe now.
(Cameron is shown, left, next to his ancestor, King William IV – also known as ‘Silly Billy’ – who twice tried unsuccessfully to force a Tory government on the country, in 1832 and again in 1834/35.)
Cameron IS a toff in the traditional sense of the term because of his privileged background, and trying to shrug off the image is pointless. It is precisely because Cameron, Osborne and many other Tories have this privileged, upper-class experience of life – and an obvious vested interest in preserving it – that their claim to have the welfare of ordinary citizens at heart is so unconvincing.
Why would the Tories be so sensitive about the ‘toff’ thing if they weren’t desperately embarrassed about it in electoral terms? They know it will lose them the votes of those who just can’t identify with their upper-class values, so they – and Dave – are trying to kid us that he’s one of us really. That – in their own words – they’re not the ‘nasty party’ any more. Trying to kid us that what Conservatives are interested in is mending our ‘broken society’. Right…
Read more of Tories desperate for Cameron to lose ‘toff’ image.
Boris gets away with it. We’re not fooled, either way »»
So Cameron, Clegg, Brown and their band of corrupt brothers and sisters across the political parties suddenly want ‘change and reform’, …er… just because they’ve been found out? Yes, right…