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 really wish that MN would force these threads into the Royal Family topic

This is a thread about the UK budget, not specifically a royal thread. We have to be able to discuss the royals in the context of UK public spending.

Absolutely!

I feel strongly that many aspects of ‘royal’ issues should be on all topics on mumsnet.
The Windsors’ corruption, associations with pedophiles ,their greed - these affect every aspect of our society- the extra 50 million the Windsors are taking from the budget, on top of their usual half a billion , being relevant here

@Ukisgaslit
I am pleased when a thread about anything connected to the Monarchy stays out in the open and not on the royal board, which is heavily populated by Royalists and Meghan and Harry dislikers.

You get a much more fair and interesting discussion

@jumpingthehighjump

You will then often see the truth about how the Windsors are really viewed !
I remember threads from when Elizabeth died and they were eye opening . People see through the propaganda.

I think it was @CathyorClaire who said if the Windsors had had any style they’d have ended their grift with Elizabeth’s death.

Yes they bloody well should.

They are not a minority interest group though. They are the family of our Head of State. They present their firstborns to us as our next Head of State and expect to do so without question. They take public money, represent the UK and are afforded significant perks by people who are meant to be our elected representatives-people apparently acting on our behalf. Apathy or ignorance isn't really good enough. William will not do a thing to reform the amount of money they take, their excess or their favourable arrangements in relation to tax unless he is forced to do so by the public. Royalists will not do this. Its only people who are not in thrall to the Royals who will scrutinise and pressurise them into changing.

Absolutely. This issue requires the disinfectant of sunlight, rather than being hidden on the royal board.

Prince Andrew is not doing anything that is not his right. He is a prince and he has a right to do who he wants. Some people criticise the Queen for lobbying for a job so he could accept bribes and sell out the UK government for his own ends, but he is a royal and is above the law, so are they all. We need to wordhip them not run them down. We need to destroy any foreign country that want a to denigrate our royals. God bless them all.

I think it's disgraceful that the tax payer is expected to fund the Royal Family when they are disgustingly rich in their own right.

I agree but I think we're in the minority

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