George’s education costs

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Who here would honestly happily contribute to George’s education costs?

Reported to be £68000 a year at Eton.

* - it’s not a vote winner at all. Rather the opposite. Would translate to making a party complete taboo for a lot of voters*.
@Araminta1003

I agree with you, I was just interested as to why the anti royals on here didn’t think it a good idea since according to them no one wants the royal family.

i think you have the wrong end of the stick. The comment by @Ukisgaslit made means educate yourself on the matter in hand. No need to pull out your qualifications. I think they are very common on Mumsnet, many of us have them!

@Ukisgaslit this thread is most Kafkaesque! I think Alice may turn up soon with a flamingo tucked under her arm.

@Peacewillcome

Thank you! Goodness - of course it was reform with a small r.

@Recklessismymiddlename you got the wrong end of the stick lol

Thanks for explaining - I was confused. So: I favour reform as a first step .

There is another thing that is often repeated - the slimmed down monarchy.

It doesn't really happen though. The tax payer still pays for the upkeep of all the extra royals, not just the working ones, in the Royal palaces. They should not be entitled to have luxury central London homes. These could be used for staff, diplomats and other civil servants that make a contribution.

As Norman Baker has written, Charles doesn't really slim it down he just puts fewer members of the family on the balcony.

I am happy to discuss the parallels between Alice in Wonderland and Metamorphosis.
Go on then @Peacewillcome - what have you got to say on the matter that beats the standard google chatbot.

Not the first time! Vestibular migraines 😢 the brain fog, confusion & dizziness are something else…,

All of them. I think it's a ridiculous system. Look at the fools we have in government who come from these places.

Thanks for the tip re booing.

@38thparallel wants you to get done for a public order offence @bafta16

You will have to continue to moo on MN instead.

Thanks for the tip re booing

No worries. The boys will enjoy watching a woman wandering around the streets of Eton shouting ‘booooooooo’

But don’t you understand that they have private wealth?

Their 'private wealth' derives from funds diverted from the public purse. Decades worth of tax breaks, fraudulent yet successful bleating for an increased Civil List enabling the purchase of Sandringham and Balmoral, the pocketing of profits from aggressively managed commercial property empires they don't own (the nation does) and now we discover double dipping the public purse charging the government and their own armed forces among others for use of the land.

No wonder they hide behind their unwarranted exemption from FOI requests and have their wills sealed.

Not going to change under 'royal with a small 'r' 'William either despite the puff he's desperately putting out.

All the indications are he intends to maintain/increase his income while downsizing even the minimal amount of 'work' he does now.

And when it come to 'work' let's bear in mind we have to regard it as quite a loose term given the entire lot put in the equivalent of six months full time between them.

They should not be entitled to have luxury central London homes. These could be used for staff, diplomats and other civil servants that make a contribution.

I agree entirely and I'd wager any and all of the above would pass the security cordon/vetting procedures cited as an apparent issue without incident.

Their 'private wealth' derives from funds diverted from the public purse

@CathyorClaire do you think they should have all their wealth confiscated?

We’re all paying for it already. And the rest of the grifting, inbred Windsor/Saxe-Coburg clan.

I think the acquisitions should have been properly scrutinised both then and now.

If there's any proven impropriety, why not?

Are you really that naive?
William lost his mother as a child. He loved his time at Eton, where they wrapped their arms around him and protected him.
William inherited millions off his Mother and if he wants to spend some of that on his own son’s education, good for him.
if I had inherited millions I would have done the same.

No one ever mentions the fortune he inherited from his mother and the Queen.
it proves how clueless and ignorant most people are. That money is his to spend on what he likes.

If there's any proven impropriety, why not?

You think they shouldn’t have any funds from the public purse so if as you say their private wealth derives from funds diverted from the public purse then presumably you see all their wealth as an impropriety.

I think you need more red wine to soften you up a bit.

Confused.

Are you referring to W?

His inheritance from Diana derived from the divorce settlement funded by us C3

E2's dosh derived from the taxpayer.

Interestingly the 'penniless prince' she married amassed a fortune apparently too embarrassing to be disclosed to the peasants and sealed for 95 years.

How do you think that might have happened?

Are you aware of how rich the Spencer family were/are?
Or are you not looking beyond the hate?

I mean, I just think it’s funny how much the Royal Family has paid out for private education and they are all, bar KM, thick as mince

Are you saying that RAF helicopter pilots are thick? Wow, you just insulted some very highly regarded people.
i would say anyone who came out with those statements does not have much brain matter and has very thick skin….

If you don't like private schools, then simply dont pay for one.

Stop trying to rob other people of choices in how they spend their money. Maybe they just really love their kids and want them to have the best, even when it means going without other things.

Based on their GCSE and A level grades and cheating in Art exams etc, which is literally what those schools are preparing them for, absolutely.

£68k in today’s money to dress up in a Nazi uniform? Yup. Thick as mince.

I don’t think I need to point out the unbelievably dense lack of self awareness esteemed pilot Andrew picked up, do I?

Your average UK school kid being a pilot? Great! An RF member with all their immense privilege in life and hundred of thousands in education and the results that lot attained? Jeez.