I couldn’t agree more – Four days of hell and basically no tv (not that this is an issue) as the sycophants and the Tories use Elizabeth Windsor’s 70 years as unelected head of state of the UK to bury bad news, waste a shit load of money, deck England in the butchers apron, force children in school to worship at the foot of one of the most disgusting and useless families in the UK.
Allegedly there are 2 private events in Dundee but no street parties, well done Dundee, also allegedly there ae 174 events in Scotland and those that are being run are tending to be in Royal estates or official events from unionist councils that we pay for through local taxation or UK Government funded things like beacons being lit all over the bloody place.
“I’ve donated enough to that bunch of scroungers. We can’t afford them!” (Twitter)
Republic who crowd funded the billboards have commented “As we approach the end of the Queen’s reign the country needs an honest, grown-up debate about the monarchy.
“We need to stop and ask ourselves: Can’t we just choose our next head of state? “With polls showing young people wanting an elected head of state, the succession of King Charles will be a major turning point in the monarchy’s history and in the growth of Britain’s republican movement. “It’s time to make Elizabeth the Last.”
The Sovereign Grant, which is the annual payment from the government to the monarch, increased by £3.5 million to £85.9 million during 2020/2.
This doesn’t count security or associated costs such as visits across the UK which local costs tend to be at least partly picked up by local tax payers no matter if you agree or not. The BBC/Sky etc have been wall to wall with this crap for weeks now and the next 4 days are going to be bad for those of us who actually have some self-respect and a brain. There will be interviews with the never royal correspondents on the BBC, there will be interviews with mostly English people who will speak like they know the Windsor’s personally and who just don’t get it in any shape or form, they will speak to tourists who might have even came to the UK for this bullshit.
“The monarchy is wrong in principle, wrong in practice and it’s bad for British politics.
The only way we will ever be rid of this nonsense is for Scotland to become independent and we make sure we don’t allow the Royalist SNP to force us to keep this travesty to democracy. Even though in Scotland we know that we get the Government that voters in England want, making us a colony in all but name, England will never vote to become a republic, the established classes who really run the UK will never allow it to happen.
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge’s country-wide tour on the royal train cost the taxpayer almost £48,000.
Prince of Wales’ charter flight in October to Kuwait to pay his condolences following the death of the country’s Emir, Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah, at a cost of £58,993.
The cost of helicopters was £2.1 million, including operating lease payments of £600,000, large and small fixed wing aircraft cost £100,000 each, rail travel was £700,000, which included lease payments of £200,000, and vehicles £200,000. (UK Government)
This was for 20/21 and just a little of the transport costs. But it is not only that just a couple of weeks ago this happened –
The Royal Household is on the hunt for a new housekeeping assistant to help keep royal residences in ship shape. The new employee will work a 40-hour week, either at Buckingham Palace or Windsor Castle. They will earn £7.97 per hour – £1.93 less than the UK Living Wage
This is one of the richest families in the UK, if not the world, and this is what they think domestic staff are worth, can you get any more disgusting than that. It makes me sick to my stomach that we put up with this shit year on year when children go to food banks, older people can’t heat their homes, people are forced to survive on poverty wages with some of the worst terms and conditions that make the Victorian Age a time of enlightenment, disgusting doesn’t even begin to describe this.
It really is time to dump this disgusting family and turn all of the castles etc into Museums for people to go visit and to see for themselves how subservient the British are.
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I was walking this morning passed the local primary school outside Stornoway. A tannoy was blasting out England’s green and pleasant land. Butchers aprons by the dozen tied to the railings, another huge one on the flagpole. I shouted as I passed this is Scotland. An Australian lady shouted to me I’m with you. Australia is a republic this won’t last long it will be over by the weekend ,I replied no this will never end. Is Scotland to be an English colony for ever. The only one still enslaved by the English. Thank you Sturgeon. Saor Alba.
Lara
I haven’t seen much in Dundee but a primary school I was working in yesterday were having a picnic outside and staff were decked out in the butchers apron, not for me in any shape or form and nothing to be proud of but we don’t teach the true nature of an unelected head of state and in particular that awful family and their history. I am working from home today and have LBC on and it is really just English callers phoning in to support this nonsense, Scots and Irish have in main been totally against. I find it all depressing to be honest, throw in the ignorance and it just shows how politically illiterate this country is.
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Bruce
Lara, that is absolutely disgusting, not just with all the bunting, but to play that sickly green and pleasant dirge is just taking things too far. What are these Hebrideans thinking? Have you had a surge of white settlers, or is that basically the mind set there?
Thank **** I’m living in Germany.
There are a lot of White settlers but surely this must be approved by the council. There is a strong SNP support too our MP and MSP are both SNP. But as far as I’m concerned, the SNP is now a unionist lead party. I have put my bunting up the Saltire. Why more Scots don’t fly their national flag really bugs me. They are flying the Ukraine flag and so proud of there selves but no Saltire. Soar Alba 🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴
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This weekend will be the reason the English are fleeing England by what ever means and using the excuse their going on Holiday.
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They are not flying that’s for sure, this country is worse than a banana republic now, other countries will be sending the UK aid soon.
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Bruce
Who do you think could be this elected head of state who could do a better job than our Royal Family? No suggestions are ever made so it is just empty rhetoric by unpleasant people. Thankfully, it will never happen.
Anon
It would be up to individuals to stand but it could be an Author, a Doctor, or even the Presiding Officer taking on the role, as long as they are elected by voters I wouldn’t care all that much to be honest at least it would be democracy. The role would ceremonial only for me any way, we would have a proper second chamber made of a mix of ordinary people seconded into the chamber for say a term and some elected.
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Bruce
This is the only Feudal state left in the Western world a ridiculous country where people starve and can’t afford to heat their homes while our interbreed masters live in abject wealth and splendor beyond our comprehension .Thats UK.OK. The colonial cesspit we are tethered to and can get rid off.
Alastair
I have been listening to the radio as I am still working from home mostly and the amount of people, mainly from England, upset that they couldn’t celebrate as they didn’t have the money but not putting 2 and 2 together was unreal and sad at the same time, the amount who talk like they know the Windsor’s as well is just so weird. The UK, but mainly England, are nuts about this servitude thing they really are. There is no place in a so called democracy for this nonsense any longer.
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Bruce
Auld Betty, the heid parasite wi’ millions tae spend preventin’ hur boay fae daein time while tens o’ thoosands o’ hur “loyal” subjects suffer the stigma o’ food banks an’ risin’ poverty.
She has nae shame, neither hae them that participate in this farce. Twa votes SNP ensures oor continuin’ enslavement wi ‘the parasitical Murrells lordin’ it ower us!
Robert
The SNP, or the leadership anyway, are unionists and royalists as far as I am concerned. This whole thing is a nonsense for all the reasons you state.
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Bruce
As I’ve said before, this whole event is nothing more than a massive middle finger salute from an obscenely wealthy family and hangers-on to us “commoners” who are struggling with the cost of living.
Lanark
It is the establishment, which is now totally interwind with politics, business, and the media, exercising their control over the masses to us carpet draggers as you say.
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Bruce
What finally turned me against the Royals is the way that military veterans are treated in the UK. They are they worst treated military veterans in the civilised world. They pledge allegiance to the Queen, but the Royals do bugger all but turn up at functions and parades. It wouldn’t take much for Brenda to start kicking up, make representations and help with some change, but she doesn’t.
And just don’t get me started on @&%$?#ing Royal Correspondents.
CapnAndy
Totally, my late Dad fought in the Navy during the whole war and while he never talked about the war unless he was drunk he would always say slums fit for mugs because when he got back to Dundee in 47 he was still living in a crowded slum with his Mum with an outdoor toilet, non social security, and no job. He despised Labour and the Tories and was never a Royalist anyway. He never kept his medals, my Mum say he threw them out as nothing more than something that made the posh feel good it didn’t put food on the table. He was always for independence and thought Scotland was a colony in every way, he didn’t have much time for most of his fellow Scots either, he saw anyone who supported unionist parties as traitors and cowards, afraid to stand up for themselves and control their own country, he wasn’t wrong.
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Bruce