King calls for creative ways to tackle inequality

Perhaps the Royal family, including William and Kate's household could finally publish their equality data or what precisely they are doing with the double figure percentage increase in the amount the government gives them.

After all, why are they refusing to share the ethnic make up of their staff? What about the number of bme staff who keep taking the Royal family to employment tribunal for race discrimination and a hostile working environment? Let's start closer at home Charles, then we can talk about the rest of us.

I'll just point out that the entire basis of English society has been to stop that happening for ... well over 1,000 years.

And it has been incredibly successful at it. Why do you think so many other countries send their elites here to go to school ? It ain't the weather.

What? You mean every single person paying the correct tax they are supposed to be paying on their income, fair and square? That’s just crazy talk!

I've got a brilliant idea. Why don't we tax everyone using the same taxation system. So no one is exempt from inheritance tax, everyone pays income tax on their income and it's isn't voluntary for the King. That'd be a good start.

Why just the Catholic Church?

Says the descendant of a Norman invader who nicked all the land from the natives. A great number of whom still own it.

What's that Bible quote ? Obviously the head of the CofE would know it. About tree trunks in your own eye before a mote in anothers.

Mind you, the Normans did end slavery in England - which was a long proud Anglo-Saxon tradition. So maybe things even out ?

I think you're being unfair. The King was attempting to acknowledge the strong feelings about reparations that other parties i.e.our PM wasn't willing to address at CHOGM. He's done more than any previous monarch to address lack of opportunity. Yes the monarchy could do more, I think he's open to it, but no doubt his hands are tied in all kinds of ways.

he should live on a state pension for a year then revisit his approach

You are joking right? I mean he's part of the problem not the solution!

It’s not prejudice against the Catholics. The original comment was referring to the Church, not the individuals. The combined wealth of the Catholic Church/Vatican is almost immeasurable. Their immense wealth makes them one of the wealthiest religious institutions in the world. All that money could be used to make millions of lives infinitely better. Why does any organisation, let alone a religious one, need to hoard that kind of money? They should distribute to most needy.

Well yes agreed but also the Royal family given it's Charles looking for ways to tackle inequality? 🤔

It's no more hypocritical than the nonsense of the COP meetings where half the global governments take huge entourages on jets to fly around the world to stay in nice destinations and talk about making sure the common man doesn't cause global warming.

We used to talk about a carbon footprint. We all have one. And the more people there are the bigger it is. When David Attenborough started his career there were 4bn people on the planet. There are now 8bn.

He said this in the context of the Commonwealth didn't he? Ie. addressing inequality across the nations [but not by giving reparations 😬)

Why not target the Catholic Church?. It has immense wealth - billions upon billions. Why hoard all this wealth? Why not take all that money and distribute it to the most needy and desperate?

(Luke 12:15).

’Watch out! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; life does not consist in an abundance of possessions’.

Haha, that's exactly why he emphasised 'creative'.

Reallocate wealth from the obscenely wealthy to the disadvantaged? Too obvious and boring! Let's get ~creative~ in a way that means he keeps all the jewels, property, staff and palaces

I agree - imagine what we could build if we didn't get only scoffing and negativity every time anyone suggested doing things better!

"Look at this thread Charles. The peasants are so cute with their little opinions! Charles, come and look, and bring me more gin."

"Yes dear."

@Elphame which advert?

Paying his staff a decent salary would be a start. That advert that appeared recently was a disgrace and the amended one was not much better.

I'm not a RF fan, but in this instance, he's using his unique position in the public eye to advocate for systemic change that he wouldn't be able to achieve politically or financially. I kind of respect that.

It's a wild idea, but what about a progressive taxation system that discourages capital gains and promotes instead investment in infrastructure, research, and development? So you only get rich if you build, mend, invent, or do something.

We could build a public world filled with good schools, beautiful parks, smoothly running trains, maintained streets, a health service delivered by incredible data science and life science research.

We could fix this country, if we decided we wanted to. If creativity was rewarded instead of hoarding.

I agree. If he just gave it all away, it would lead to short term benefit, or benefit for a small number of people, because of the way the system is.

He's calling for systematic change for the wellbeing of the population. This is part of his job description, after all...