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Fair point. I’ve not done my research. A bit reactionary maybe. Edit; Having said, would a local state school not suffice or is that purely for the plebs? Those destined for higher stations?

I have more respect for that.

Oink oink https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/aug/10/theresa-villiers-held-70k-shell-shares-while-environment-secretary

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/aug/10/uk-spends-13m-on-private-schooling-for-diplomats-children

‘tis a pity we don’t have a dishonours list. Probably not enough time on the planet to work through that back-log.

Fat little piggies doing us up the wrongle… https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/aug/06/mps-paid-10m-for-second-jobs-and-freelance-work-over-past-year

I’ll post how I want to post, thank you so much. I tend not to treat the facts as flexible. Unlike your mob. If you’re too f***ing stupid to answer questions, that’s not my problem.

Was there? Dunno.

He asked name one labour MP that has made it to No.10 Which is what TB did.

He asked “name one Labour member who has made it to No.10”

It can rise. It can never fall. “The golden ratchet” that Cameron came up with. The decision, deliberately designed to appear to the public as if the rise is purely the profit from “their” estates is made by a committee of just three individuals – prime minister Rishi Sunak, the chancellor...

The arbitrary linkage of the sovereign grant with crown estate profits – which despite the name are public monies – was made all the more egregious by a “golden ratchet” clause stating that while the grant would rise in line with them, it would never fall. Thus democratic oversight was replaced...

First on the right. You can’t miss it, it’s next to the Woolworths 👍

Basically the money for the royals comes from a grant funded by our taxes. That size of that grant is determined by how much profit their estates make. The money does not come from that profit. It is a grant on top of that profit. Funded by us. It is hidden in complicated procedure designed to...

Lord Turnbull, a former cabinet secretary, Whitehall’s most senior civil servant, who was involved in official discussions over royal financing, accused the Treasury of seeking to obfuscate how the monarchy was funded. He said that linking the royal finances to the profits of the crown estate...

Recognising when you’re being taken for a ride is not “identifying as a victim”.

Feel free to ignore it and not re…oh.

Well, hard to argue to a point. My point was, the elite, be it Labour, Tory, corporate, or the monarchy are taking us for mugs. For the record though, all being equal, I would rather have a Labour government that the Tory government we have now. In fact, I’d rather have a fentanyl addicted...

We really are just a laughing stock to the elite, aren’t we. They think we exist simply to fund their ridiculously lavish lifestyles. Sickening. This country needs a revolution. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jul/20/king-charles-to-receive-huge-pay-rise-from-uk-taxpayers...