Well, I hated the coronation…

[TheColourofspring]

I can see I am in the minority on here but I found yesterday to be distasteful on a gigantic scale. To watch the most privileged people travel in gold coaches & be decorated with diamonds and gold that is priceless in the face of millions of people struggling to eat/heat their homes just feels so wrong.

Our primary school has just opened a food bank. There are kids & families in crisis- children coming into school hungry & smelly as families can’t afford to wash clothes (I am not joking) - living in Dickensian conditions. Some of the teaching staff use the foodbank.

Yesterday was a display of obscene wealth. The royals didn’t even pay for it- we did. How can we find money for that absolute nonsense yet we can’t find money for large swathes of the population to feed themselves.

While Charles was sitting there in his gold costume holding these priceless items, plenty of families weren’t eating. It made me really angry.

I am tired of all the arguments for a royal family- how somehow these displays are quaint. Yesterday was an obscene display of wealth, inherited privilege and everything that’s wrong with this country. Seems a conversation about the royals is long overdue.

The Coronation is expected to bring around £1billion in to the U.K. economy.

As someone with severe Stockholm syndrome, I loved every second of it.

@CoozudBoyuPuak great post which I agree with! I didn’t actually watch all of it as it made me too angry but I wanted to observe also to reiterate to my kids why this isn’t just a moment in history to be observed- it’s a moment to be challenged too- to understand that this isn’t nescessarily right & that we don’t need to blindly wave flags and support it!

@GoodChat who cares? That billion isn’t going to trickle down to the families that need it, Is it?

There will always be people richer than you OP. If we didn't have a Royal Family there'd be something else for you to be jealous of.

Doff, not doth. Doff your cap.

Most of the items used in the coronation were locked up, waiting to be used. The economy got a boost. I for one, am pleased the RF is here and we got a Coronation.

I'm happy to chip in your £1.29 a year OP.

How can people make that happen for themselves?!

Do you realise how you come across? You really have no idea don't you?

This. Some people are always jealous of those with more wealth than them.

There will always be people richer than you OP. If we didn't have a Royal Family there'd be something else for you to be jealous of

@CantBeArsedOrAsked but your post is based on the idea that everyone can work and achieve that wealth (which is frankly a bollocks Tory idea) and they can’t because the royals inherited their wealth by exploiting others, slavery etc. Its a nonsense argument!

Rivers that are being polluted with sewage

Loved it, happy for my taxes to go towards it

It felt tawdry and anachronistic.
But Georgians hated that bloody gold coach too.
I hold the fucking Tories' 13 years of misrule completely accountable for the mess we're in.

It voids the taxpayers money argument, though.

If the money isn't used appropriately, that's nothing to do with the RF.

Bore off OP

I knew when I posted this that I would be in the minority as a Republican but honestly some of the arguments are really batshit 😂

This idea that I am somehow jealous of their wealth is hilarious and also frankly terrifying! The idea that anyone without inherited privilege can own half the U.K. is totally ludicrous and honestly also represents everything that is wrong with the royals too!!

???

Never heard of modern slavery. Sure it doesn’t pay as well as it used to, bloody government regulation, but it’s still lucrative.

Everyone has the same 24 hours in a day. It’s just what you do with it. If you worked hard OP you could have a nonce for a brother, a crown on your head, and a cult of morons chanting your name!

Stop moaning, and start making it happen.

@hattie43 why? Am I not allowed to have a different view to you? To challenge this bollocks?

'someone told me that just one crown if sold it would clear the nat debt'.

Did you believe them? Do you know what the UK national debt is?

@ThankmelaterOkay 😂😂🤣

The Trussell Trust has got vast amounts of money. Have a look at its accounts on the Charity Commission’s website. Most of their funding comes from private individuals and they aren’t managing to disperse all the funds they raise.

Selling one crown wouldn’t fund very much at all. Do you understand how much each day of running the country costs? Let alone the size of the national debt. Office of National Statistics this shows you the size of the national debt was £2507.3 billion at the end of February.

All the people who were paid overtime to take part in the parade, to clean the streets etc have extra money they can spend which will go towards boosting the economy.

I don't get the "culture" argument.

Most of our ancestors were forced to live as a starving underclass, toil away on the fields, go off to war, doff their caps and "know their place" etc etc while a very small number of people literally stole all the land and money, enslaved others, and gave themselves fancy titles and more money.

How is replaying bits of this hundreds of years later "culture"?

Getting rid of the monarchy won't feed and wash those children