As Rachel Reeves struggles to balance the books, the Royal Family should forgo a £46 million increase in their funding. AIBU?

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Due to an increase in Crown Estate profits, the government is set to increase its grant to the Royal Family from £ 86.3 million to £132.1 million.
As the Royal Family appear to be getting by at present on an £86.3 million grant, AIBU to say that they should share in the pain of the national squeeze on finances?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwy5lzq94gqo.amp

I’d go a step further and disestablish the royal family altogether, nationalise the Crown Estate and their inherited assets. The whole notion of royalty is an anathema.

I agree, but I don’t think that will happen in the near future. It would be great to even get to a place where state financial support went only to the monarch.

I don’t believe in getting rid of the royals. This does seem like a huge increase to them however, it depends on how much they are making back for the government/economy as a whole.

2 and a half hours in, not one person has jumped in to the thread to say that the Royal Family deserves or needs a £46 million increase in funding!

Rachel Reeves should take note - there’s an easy £46 million boost to the national piggy bank, which will be noticed by nobody except for the royals!

I doubt £46million would run the NHS for an hour.

More troubling is that Charles didn’t have to pay Inheritance tax and I doubt William will either. ‘Cos it’s all tied up in lovely Trusts that the plebs don’t know about.
We’ll never get to see HMQ Elizabeth’s Will, not in my lifetime anyway, despite Wills being public documents.

The cost of property upkeep and official business done by working royals is not going to increase by £40+ million.

Unless they decide that they may as well do some renovations somewhere. And do extra, more expensive state visits, and walkabouts.

It's ludicrous that the amount they receive is linked to profits, therefore they can increase their expenditure on property and official work to fit the amount.

It would be more sensible to allocate a set amount, that rose with inflation.

I don't particularly care if they get the £46m or not, but £46m is absolute peanuts compared to the money this country needs.

It would run the NHS for approximately two hours @BorgQueen !

Agreed. That £46 million royal funding increase (on top of obscenely lavish pre-existing state funding) might not go far in the NHS, but would definitely help with local transport initiatives for example. It could also save many libraries, or swimming pools, or help with school estate maintenance. In short, there are multiple better ways of spending £46 million.

Leaving aside whether the monarchy should or should not exist. Should those with large wealth bail out a government who has mismanaged their country or bailout a government who has been voted in to govern a mismanaged country by predecessors?

How ungrateful! After all the royal family do for us this is the least the government should be doing. I know Prince Andrew has had some bad publicity recently but let's not punish the others .

The Tories salted the earth, and Labour is a deer in the headlights. But if the answer is that those with broadest shoulders should take the strain, why are the royals exempt?

Love it! 🤣

£46m is chicken feed. Less than a pound per person living in the UK.

Isn't the funding from the crown estates,not the tax payer? Apologies if I have got that wrong. I thought the crown estates is effectively, a property company, and its profits determine the sovereign grant.

Get rid of the crown you also need to get rid of the church. The two work side by side. Another man made entity which decides how people should, should not live and known for endless quests for power it does not deserve.

What do they do for us?
For me?

A 48% increase in the sovereign Grant whilst people are struggling so much is a joke

Yanbu.
If they can't afford to maintain their assets they should donate them to the state.

New land for housing , hospitals or even just new parks for people to enjoy as the rest of the country gets built on

It's disgusting that everyone else is asked to tighten their belts but royals don't have to do the same.

But each every person living in the Uk needs that pound more than the royals surely?

The crown estate is a very aggressive landlord and lots of it's "profits" will be money collected from public bodies

Got to work now (those royal handouts won’t pay for themselves! 🤣) I will be back later.

They make vast profits from tax payers though, they are often the landlord to public bodies and a very robust and commercial landlord at that.

They also get any property bona vacantia property and really that should go to the government and I think that's a ripe area for reform.

Lol seriously this has to be a joke. Why should anyone be grateful to a dysfunctional family who live in immense wealth with shady tax policies, suitcases full of cash and a disgraced ex Prince. But you keep doffing your cap.

Off with their heads! Peado Andy first

Im sorry this is sickening