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.

So £7.50 or thereabouts

Taking your hat off when going into someone’s house or a church.?

Although I believe it’s ‘each to their own’.
If people want to show respect in a certain manner they have every right to.

I wonder where the 20% fall in terms of pro monarchy or against (or indifferent)

v others

Well .. we can either have Royals or a dictator .. take your pick and I absolutely know who I prefer
if you want a Corbyn .. Putin or Hitler figure .. then you need to go to another country ..

Seems about right, I did the maths aswell and thought it was reasonable. Especially as lots of companies will have benefitted from such a big do.

Good grief, how do all those European countries without monarchies cope with their dictators I wonder...

Why did you watch it @TheColourofspring ? Genuine question. I have same feelings as you about it but that's why I didn't watch it or engage in any of the coverage. I am acting as though it is an irrelevance. Even though I am seething at the fact I am unwillingly contributing to the freak show.

On the contrary, you've failed to point out any real problems with my posts.

Once again, we see you wrongly conflating the electorate changing the Government with the electorate having a say in how their taxes go. Those are two different things! 🤦‍♂️

If you truly believe the taxpayer has the ability to dictate where their taxes go, it will not be difficult for you to provide the direct evidence of it. Not rhetoric.

So.....once again, it is our elected representatives who decide where our taxes go. It's the job of the Government to draw up a budget and the job of the Official Opposition to scrutinise it.

But you and I have no right to withhold funding from the Monarchy or the Armed Forces and give it to the NHS or schools, for example.

We consent to being taxed precisely because we have representation in Parliament, but this confers no right on allocation of our taxes where we might personally want them to go.

It's that simple.

There always has been and always will be super rich and super poor people. Getting rid of the monarchy would not change that.
I like having a royal family! It's great seeing old traditions carried out and I love seeing the carriages, uniforms, jewels, horses etc.
If you don't like it, why did you watch it?

Banish the monarchy and your proletariat will be no more enriched. But they will be bamboozled by the likes of Johnson, head of state! Can you imagine! He will definitely be wealthier as a result.

What a one-sided argument. Monarchies in Europe are figureheads, not policy-makers. Taxpayers money? Last year alone, the Royal Family INCREASED our economic income by nearly £2BILLION. In a world that is increasingly insecure, long-held traditions like the Coronation give a much-needed and much-appreciated boost to morale, it's a beautiful spectacle and the entire world watches. Want to be a piddly little Republic like France? Yeah, thought not.

LOL, as if someone would have an EIGHTEEN HOUR shift with no toilet breaks or food breaks. D minus. Must try harder. If anyone actually DID say that, (and do post a link to prove it,) then they are lying.

Raising the retirement age for all from 62 to 64 ? Clean rivers and seas ? Cheaper food ? Mediterranean beaches ? Much cheaper utility bills ? An option to remove the head of state ? A passport that allows me to work, travel and live in any other EU state ? Great wine and cheese ? Dirt cheap beautiful properties in the countryside ?

Oui , por favor !

@CantBeArsedOrAsked

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.

Yeah she is. There is not even enough of a majority of Royal Family haters to warrant a referendum. Shame....... 😥😩

Oh dear gosh can you just imagine how vile the lead up to a referendum on the monarchy would actually be? After the fallout from the EU referendum I think it would be wise to side step a monarchy referendum. The country feels so divided as it is at the moment let alone a debate and referendum on the monarchy. It would be stirring a hornets nest in my opinion.

It would be vile @RocketIceLollie There won't be a referendum though, as the number of people who want rid of them is vanishingly small, compared to the amount who want to keep them, or are not bothered either way.

It would be worse than vile. I know the Civil War was 400 years ago but surely we don’t need to refight it.

Amazing how often the Monarchy is confused with the Government on MN.

As a previous poster said, absolutely 100% no. These argumentative and vitriolic far left wing royal family haters do not want a conversation. They don't want to hear anybody's point but their own. They just want to get rid of the royal family and do NOT want to hear any other point but their own. To hell with this stupid fucking idea of having a conversation.

Trouble is, the rivers are full of poo these days, and so is the sea.

Could not agree more.

It would be like Brexit but even worse ie. people think they know what the problem is, don’t get presented with an actual solution because ‘we’ll figure that out later’ yet crack on regardless with blind faith it’ll all work out.

Oh. Oops.

someone told me that just one crown if sold it would clear the nat debt. Even if that's not strictly true,it would go a long way towards it!

😂😂😂 The current UK national debt is 2.3 trillion. Daily interest is about £250m. Not sure what the crown is worth but I doubt it would more than a week or two's interest.